•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...
•Tinubu and Trump The United States government has expressed concern over the sustainability of Nigeria’s new national minimum wage, warning that the recently approved N70,000 benchmark is inadequate to lift citizens out of poverty due to the country’s worsening economic conditions. In its 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, releas...
•Peter Obi Former Anambra State governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said hunger and poverty have become the daily reality for millions of Nigerians. He stated this in a post on his X handle today, noting that the situation was no longer about statistics but a harsh truth visible in the […]
•Tinubu and Ohanaeze Ndigbo The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the preeminent Igbo sociocultural organisation, has called on President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to address the hunger and poverty ravaging the country. According to the Igbo sociocultural organisation, the president’s inability to address the challenges facing the nation may cost him his re-election c...
•Atiku Abubakar, Nasir El-Rufai and Rotimi Amaechi Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, and former Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi have flayed the administration of President Bola Tinubu for “weaponising poverty”. They spoke at a public lecture held in honour of Amaechi who clocked 60 in Abuja, ...
•Peter Obi Amid growing rumours of a possible coalition among opposition leaders to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said that the only coalition he is interested in is the one against hunger, poverty, and the terrible state of healthcare and […]
•Tinubu The World Bank has raised a fresh concern over the rising poverty in Nigeria, saying that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural dwellers live below the poverty line. The World Bank stated this in its latest April 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief for Nigeria which was obtained yesterday, reports Daily Trust. It had, […]
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