Tag: Poor
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More Nigerians poorer now than decade before 2017 – UN Report
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) in a new report released on Thursday said that more Nigerians are multi-dimensionally poorer than a decade before 2017. The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today said that of the 1.3 billion people who are multi-dimensionally poor, over…
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Why Northern Nigeria will continue to remain poor – Dangote
African richest and Chairman of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has said Northern Nigeria will continue to remain poor except states governments move to close the development gap between the north and the south. Dangote, who spoke at the 4th edition of the Kaduna Investment Summit (KadInvest 4.0) in Kaduna on Wednesday, berated…
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We’ll spend loots recovered from Diezani, Yakubu to feed the poor – FG
The Federal Government has said it will spend loots recently recovered from former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke and former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Andrew Yakubu on its social intervention programmes. TheNewsGuru.com reports that a Lagos Federal High Court, on Thursday ordered the forfeiture of of about N34bn linked…
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FG’s N5,000 payment to the poor, another empty promise by APC – Fayose
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has discredited the Federal Government’s claim of the payment of N5,000 to indigent Nigerians, describing it as another empty promise by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. He said: “A blind man will say it is when it gets into my mouth that I will say you are…