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...
•National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria (NHRC) The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Dr. Tony Ojukwu (SAN), has urged the federal government to confront the deeper drivers of recurring violence poverty, inequality and hate speech warning that failure to address these root causes will sustain cycles of kil...
•Fresh tomatoes at an open market The high cost of living has made many people look for short cuts to save money at all costs. Some people don’t even mind the outcome of such a short cut as far as cutting costs is concerned, reports Vanguard. One of such areas is food catering service. It […]
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed deep concern over the worsening insecurity, poverty, and humanitarian challenges confronting Northern Nigeria, warning that terrorism, banditry, and kidnapping are increasingly displacing communities and disrupting livelihoods. The alarm was raised yesterday by ACF Chairman, Mamman Mike Osuman, ...
•Poverty in Nigeria At least 141million Nigerians are expected to be living in poverty this year, according to PwC’s Nigeria Economic Outlook 2026. The report titled: “Turning macroeconomic stability into sustainable growth,” projected deteriorating poverty levels of about 62% of the population in the year preceding the election year 2027. The...
•Solomon Dalung A former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has said that the removal of the fuel subsidy has not delivered the expected relief, adding that it has instead resulted in poverty, hunger, inflation, and insecurity. At his swearing-in in May 2023, President Bola Tinubu declared an end to the subsidy regime with his famous [&hellip...
•Peter Okoye Award-winning singer Peter Okoye popularly known as Mr P, has revealed his biggest fear is poverty and being broke. In a recent interview on Nancy Isime show, the other star of the defunct popular music group, P-square, stated he’s not afraid of death, but the thought of returning to a life of poverty […]
•Tinubu and World Bank logo Nigeria’s barely 0.14 per cent budgetary allocation of its Gross Domestic Product on social protection is far below the global average of 1.5 per cent and the Sub-Saharan African average of 1.1 per cent, and has had no effect on poverty, so far. The World Bank, in a new report […]
•Atiku and Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says over two years after taking the reins, there is no sign that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu can address the prevailing hunger and poverty in the country. The opposition leader who described the hunger in the country as unacceptable, especially the underprivileged poor and down-trodden, s...
A United States-based Nigerian nurse researcher, Omobolanle Agboola, has identified income insecurity, transportation challenges, and social isolation as major drivers of poor health across Nigerian communities. Agboola, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, argued that poverty significantly affects Nigerians’ physical and mental hea...
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