Tag: Poverty
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Letter from Chief Awolowo – By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
It has been a while since I last wrote to you compatriots if I may still refer to you as such. Up here we are disturbed by the insane and criminal hustling that has become politics in the country. We are also worried about the economy, (what is this story about the Central Bank Governor…
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2023: I will end poverty in Nigeria if elected president – Tinubu boasts
Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has promised to conquer poverty in Nigeria, if elected in 2023.
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We’ll create jobs to alleviate poverty in Nigeria – DG SMEDAN
Mr. Olawale Fasanya, Director General (DG) of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), said the Agency would continue to support entrepreneurs to ceate jobs and alleviate poverty in Nigeria.
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The poverty narrative: Federal versus State Governments – By Dakuku Peterside
Poverty is all around us. You see it in all aspects of our lives. It is so ubiquitous that it has been ingrained in our collective psyche. We seem to have accepted it as inevitable and use it to explain our personal and collective reality. It is one condition many people work and pray hard…
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For APC, multidimensional poverty has no outrage – By Zogbobia Selomo
Less than 80 days to the 2023 Elections, the stats are not adding up for APC. Such discrepancies in figures are pushing the nation towards an apocalypse, and the pain is unbearable. The irony is that Nigerians seem to be dead to this pain inflicted by the ruling party, so dead that they cannot struggle…
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Governors can’t excuse themselves on deepening poverty in Nigeria – VON DG
Mr. Osita Okechukwu, the Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), says State Governors cannot excuse themselves from being a major contributor to deepening poverty and insecurity in Nigeria. Okechukwu said this in an exclusive interview with NAN in Abuja,
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Playing Games with Poverty – By Chidi Amuta
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has stirred an unnecessary storm and in the process may have scored an inconsequential victory. Last week, the NBS revised the definition of poverty by shifting from the now proverbial living on $2 a day to something called “multidimensional poverty”. This has unsettled our politicians.
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63% of Nigerians are multidimensionally poor – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says about 63 per cent of people in Nigeria are multidimensionally poor.
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PDP will tackle insecurity, poverty – Gov Okowa
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa and Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the party will tackle security challenge and poverty bedevilling the country, if given the mandate in 2023.
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Cash transfer is the antidote to poverty in Nigeria – Gov AbdulRazaq
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said there is enough evidence to prove that the Cash Transfer programme for vulnerable people is a workable solution to extreme poverty in the country.