•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, […]
•NLC President Joe Ajaero A few days ago, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on behalf of the Nigerian workers, received a two-man delegation from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, comprising the IMF Resident Representative for Nigeria, Christian H. Ebeke, and, Axel Schimmelpfennig from Washington, D.C. The purpose of the ...
•Oborevwori and Tinubu Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government’s economic policies, saying it has unleashed “unprecedented hunger, poverty, and mass unemployment” on Nigerians. Oborevwori kicked against petroleum subsidy removal and floating of the naira, saying whatever gains the subsi...
•Micheal Ale and Tinubu A development expert and founder of the Global Initiative for Nigeria Development, Micheal Ale, has cautioned the Tinubu-led federal government against implementing tax reforms that could deepen poverty among Nigerians. Ale, in a statement today in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, described the proposed tax reforms as “a grossly...
•Peter Obi and Tinubu The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, says the constant power outages in many parts of Nigeria and the expensive cost of petroleum products may push many entrepreneurs out of business and sink more Nigerians into poverty. Many Northern states have been thrown into a blackout for […]
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