•Tinubu at the flag off of his campaign for second term in Kaduna, yesterday President Bola Tinubu yesterday accused the opposition of creating hunger and poverty in Nigeria, pushing back against criticism of his administration’s handling of the economy as he launched his campaign for a second term in office. Speaking at the All Progressives [...
Nigeria recorded the world’s largest increase in the number of people living in multidimensional poverty, with an additional 17.9 million Nigerians falling into poverty between 2021 and 2024, according to the 2026 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index. The report, published yesterday by the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford P...
•Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele Tinubu-led federal government’s economic recovery is gaining strength, but improved revenues and macroeconomic indicators have yet to translate into stronger social outcomes for citizens, the federal government and World Bank have said. Meanwhile, the Arewa Consult...
•Tinubu In his broadcast to mark Nigeria’s 66TH Independence anniversary, President Bola Tinubu raised several issues pointing to his assessment of his track record in office since May 29 2023 and the future he envisages for the country. Themed ‘From Reforms to Prosperity’, the text was vintage Tinubu – evocative in content and delivered with ...
•Atiku and Tinubu Former vice president and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has accused the administration of President Bola Tinubu of plunging the country into worse cases of poverty since assuming office in 2023. Atiku alleged this while addressing a state of the nation broadcast at the party’...
•Femi Falana, SAN Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has warned that the creation of state police will not resolve insecurity in Nigeria unless the government addresses poverty and unemployment. Falana, who appeared on Channels Television last night, said the country’s insecurity challenge was often narrowly reduced to questions of securit...
•Tinubu and IMF logo The International Monetary Fund said today that reforms implemented by the Nigerian government had strengthened the country’s economy, but warned that more than 60 percent of Nigerians now live in poverty. Since taking office just over three years ago, President Bola Tinubu has removed a costly fuel subsidy that had kept [...
•Chief Emeka Anyaoku The Patriots, a group of senior Nigerian citizens and professionals led by the former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has expressed deep concerns about the prevalent killings and kidnappings as a result of banditry going on in the nation, including poverty among the citizens. The eminent group m...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress has painted a grim picture of the state of the nation and its workers, warning that rising insecurity, deepening poverty, and worsening economic conditions are pushing citizens to the brink. Recall that NLC and other stakeholders in the Nigerian project had consistently blamed hardship in t...
A coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) has lamented that despite federal budgets exceeding N100 trillion in the last two years, Nigerians are worse off, with worsening poverty, failing public services and deepening inequality. Similarly, former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, questioned the federal government’s latest approval of...
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