A survey by a group known as Cadre Harmonise, CH, has disclosed that no fewer than 24 million Nigerians, including 14,000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in 26 states and the Federal Capital Territory, would slip into poverty and economic crisis due to persistent Naira crisis and fuel scarcity. CH said …
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Bayelsa, Sokoto, Gombe and Kebbi states have the highest incidence of child multidimensional poverty index in Nigeria. While the child MPI is above 50% in all thirty-six states, the incidence in the aforementioned states has more than 95%. This was revealed in the data on child MPI entitled ‘Nigeria Launches …
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the problem of extreme poverty in Nigeria keeps him up at night. Osinbajo disclosed this at a dinner and interactive session with Faculty Members, Harvard Business School on Tuesday in Lagos. Osinbajo featured alongside Srikant Datar, Professor of Business Administration, and Bayo Ogunlesi, a …
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The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday lamented that the country had been witnessing what it called escalated despondency, depression and misery since the conclusion of the last presidential election. The party urged Nigerians to support one another at this trying time, in order to check the rising social degeneration, …
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