AdminJun 25, 20181 min readNigeria overtakes India in world’s extreme poverty ranking [See top 10]Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, according to a new report by the...
AdminJun 25, 20182 min readBuhari chasing re-election despite genocide, ravaging poverty – PDP chairman, SecondusNational Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to face the...
AdminJun 23, 20181 min readAPC will be remembered for poverty, nepotism, harassment – TurakiPresidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, said the Buhari led All...
AdminMay 3, 20181 min readWorld Bank backs IMF on poverty rate in NigeriaThe World Bank says unemployment and poverty rates increased in Nigeria despite an exit from recession in 2017. The apex global financial...
AdminMay 2, 20184 min readBashir I. Bashir: Kano: Illiteracy, poverty, drug abuse are manifestation of absence of competent leI was transfixed watching a video clip where as usual, our Learned Emir was delivering a lecture on the myriad of problems besetting our...
AdminFeb 16, 20182 min readJAMB: More drama as Yobe, Kogi officials blame Boko Haram, poverty for missing N8mThe last has not been heard of missing funds in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. Days after a staff in Makurdi office...
AdminDec 13, 20177 min readEmmanuel Onwubiko: Poverty as a killer of democracyProfessor John Keane contributed to scholarship by writing a book he stylishly titled: “The Life and Death of Democracy”. In one of the...
AdminOct 21, 20171 min readWhat African leaders need to do to tackle poverty, violence – BuhariPresident Muhammadu Buhari has called on African leaders to speak ‘with one voice’ without foreign influence in order to tackle the...
AdminAug 13, 20172 min readYouth exclusion responsible for poverty, insecurity in Nigeria – Ansar-ud-DeenAs Ansar-ud-Deen Youth Association of Nigeria, ADYAN, has identified no-inclusion of youths in the political, economic and social spheres...
AdminMay 21, 20171 min readAlmajiri represents poverty not Islam – Sultan of SokotoSultan of Sokoto and President-General of Jema’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III has declared street begging by...
AdminOct 24, 20162 min readI was not elected to spread poverty in Nigeria – JonathanImmediate past President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he was never elected as Nigeria’s president to spread poverty in all nooks and...
AdminOct 12, 20161 min readUnited States donates $92.7m to aid Nigeria’s fight against povertyThe United States Agency for International Development, USAID, has donated $92.73m as development assistance to support Nigeria’s effort...
AdminAug 22, 20168 min readEmmanuel Onwubiko: Can Nigeria eradicate poverty?Coming also from the media and human rights backgrounds, it does not require a soothsayer to emphatically stress that I am cut out to...
AdminJul 18, 20162 min readForget the fake lifestyles, there’s so much poverty in Nollywood – Yoruba actors lamentSome actors of the Yoruba sector of Nollywood say there is so much poverty in the industry and that a lot of actors are patronizing fake...
AdminJun 29, 20163 min read69 million children to die, 167 million will live in poverty by 2030 – UNICEFUNICEF further disclosed that 167 million children would live in poverty, and 750 million women would have been married as children by...
AdminDec 17, 20151 min readPoverty and lack of parental care pushed me into robbery – SuspectConfessing to the crime, Ese was reported as saying he had taken to robbery due to poverty and lack of parental care, adding that his...
AdminJun 10, 20152 min readNLC scribe urges 8th National Assembly to prioritise workers’ welfare, poverty reductionOzo-Eson, the General Secretary of the Congress gave this advice in a phone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He...
