Tag: Poverty
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Investment in education will lift Nigerians from poverty – Experts
Financial experts have tasked the Federal Government to improve the ease of doing business and invest more in the education sector as a panacea for lifting 100 million Nigerians from poverty. They disclosed this in separate interviews with our correspondent on Wednesday in Lagos. They said that showing more concern to education would change the…
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NGO decries high rate of poverty in Nigeria, blames bad leadership
By Steve Oni, Ilorin A Non Governmental Organisation, under the aegis of Polling Units Ambassadors of Nigeria (PUAN), has decried the avoidable pains, sufferings and hunger millions of the citizenry have been subjected to by leaders they voted into power despite the abundant human and material resources the country is blessed with. PUAN Ambassador-General, Ambassador…
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NGO decries high rate of poverty in Nigeria, blames bad leadership
By Steve Oni, Ilorin A Non Governmental Organisation, under the aegis of Polling Units Ambassadors of Nigeria (PUAN), has decried the avoidable pains, sufferings and hunger millions of the citizenry have been subjected to by leaders they voted into power despite the abundant human and material resources the country is blessed with. PUAN Ambassador-General, Ambassador…
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Pandemic to push more than 32m people to extreme poverty – UN
The number of people living in extreme poverty will increase by more than 32 million in 2020 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report released on Thursday.COVID-19 has had a catastrophic economic impact on the least developed countries (LDCs) where the poor has been…
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VON D-G optimistic Buhari’ll lift Nigerians out of poverty
Mr Osita Okechukwu, the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), has expressed optimism over President Muhammadu Buhari’s plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within the next 10 years. Okechukwu expressed this optimism in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Enugu. The VON boss, who was…
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COVID-19: Poor people in Africa to increase by 49.2m in 2021 -AfDB
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says the number of extreme poor people could increase by 34 million and 49.2 million due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. The AfDB made this known in its African Economic Outlook 2020 supplement amid coronavirus pandemic released on Tuesday. The report indicated that the development was because the Gross…