Tag: Poverty
Student loans and the measure of poverty [OPINION]
By Abimbola Adelakun On Monday, the President signed into law a bill establishing an education bank that will provide interest-free loans to ...Obi takes campaigns to Katsina, promises to end insecurity, poverty
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said he will end insecurity and poverty if elected. Obi said this ...Poverty no longer scares me — Chinedu Ikedieze
Nollywood actor, Chinedu Ikedieze, popularly known as Aki, has said that though poverty used to be his greatest fear, it no longer ...133 million Nigerians are living in poverty – FG reveals
The FG disclosed that 63 percent of persons within Nigeria, 133 million, are living in poverty. The figure was presented during ...For real? Plans to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty attainable – FG
The Federal Government has said the planned lifting of 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030 is attainable, if stakeholders play ...Nigerians living below poverty line rise as World Bank raises poverty line to $2.15
The number of Nigerians classified as living below the poverty line could increase as the World Bank has raised the line to ...