Tag: Poverty
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2023: Hold me responsible if we don’t turn Nigeria around – Peter Obi
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) has promised to build a new Nigeria devoid of mass poverty and criminalities if elected in the 2023 general election.
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2023: APC has made Nigeria world capital of poverty -Okowa
…says only PDP can reset Nigeria to working ways Peoples Democratic Party Vice Presidential Candidate and Governor of Delta, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday said the All Progressives Congress, APC has led the country into becoming world poverty capital. Speaking at the inauguration of the Delta State PDP Campaign Council in Asaba, Okowa said only…
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FG set to lift 100m Nigerians out of poverty – Sambo
The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, has said that the Federal Government is set to generate 21 million full time jobs and lift 35 million people out of poverty by 2025. Sambo, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Dr Sam Idiagbonya, disclosed this on Friday at the ongoing 2022 Ministerial…
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Ukraine war pushed 4m children into poverty – UNICEF
The war in Ukraine and rising inflation has pushed an addition four million children across eastern Europe and Central Asia into poverty. The United Nations Children’s agency UNICEF said in a report released on Monday. The figure, representing a 19 per cent increase since 2021, showed that children were “bearing the heaviest burden” of the…
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Ikeja Chamber of Commerce unveils platform to tackle poverty
The Ikeja Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture and the Responsible Leaders Concepts Ltd., announce that preparations have been concluded to inaugurate a “Video Wealth” project aimed at tackling unemployment and poverty around the world especially, in Africa. The “Video Wealth” provides an opportunity for young and old people alike to make money, using their…
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This is the face of poverty in Nigeria – By Owei Lakemfa
Poverty is often presented as statistics. But what the Yusufu Bala Usman Institute did on September 21, 2022 was to produce a book, The Face of Poverty in Nigeria, which focused on the faces behind the statistics.
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I will end insecurity, poverty if elected – Peter Obi
Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has promised to end insecurity, poverty and unemployment in Nigeria if elected in 2023. Obi made the promise at a rally organised by the Middle Belt Forum on Thursday in Jos.
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How Atiku, PDP engineered mass poverty on Nigerians – BMO
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar played a major role in pushing millions of Nigerians into the unemployment market and into poverty as Vice President between 1999 and 2007.
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Senate considers bill to end poverty in Nigeria
A bill to establish National Poverty Alleviation Management Commission on Tuesday passed second reading in the Senate. This was sequel to the presentation of the lead debate on the bill by the sponsor, Sen. Kabir Barkiya (APC-Katsina) during plenary.
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Ukraine: World Bank predicts more Nigerians’ll plunge into extreme poverty
Again, a new report of the World Bank has predicted that more people in Nigeria and its Sub-Saharan neighbours are expected to plunge into extreme poverty. The report published in the World Bank newsletter titled, “Global Economic Prospects,” disclosed that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its effect on the commodity market, supply chains, inflation, and…