Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar played a major role in pushing millions of Nigerians into the unemployment market and into poverty as Vice President between 1999 and 2007. This, according to the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), is contrary to the impression Atiku sold in...
Poverty
The UN Women Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ms Beatrice Eyong has said poverty is a major cause of vote buying in Nigeria. Ms. Eyong said this when she received National Officials of Women Wing of Christian Association of Nigeria (WOWICAN) in Abuja. She said that the UN women...
Rep. Eta Mbora (PDP – Cross River) said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remained the better option to reset the nation’s “bleeding economy”. Mbora, who represents Odukpani/Calabar Municipal, said this while speaking with newsmen in Calabar on Tuesday. The lawmaker, who expressed concern over the poverty level, the...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sultan of Sokoto and President General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111 has decried that poverty rather than the desire for acquiring Islamic education could be the reason for some parents sending their wards to other places...
The President Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled his official residence. On Saturday, thousands of protesters stormed the home as they continued their demand for his resignation. The President was hurriedly transported to the Army headquarters hours before the invasion. Sri Lankan military personnel joined the demonstrators who broke police barricades...
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, on Monday stated that the unemployment of 100 million Nigerians was responsible for the widespread poverty in the country. Mr. Obi spoke at a one-day international colloquium in Port Harcourt organised by Christ Church...
As millions of Nigerians are groaning under harsh economic climate, a Professor and Pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Prof. Solomon Adekunle Bello has explained the reasons behind poverty within the Christians community and the steps to take to escape poverty. Prof. Bello, Pastor in Charge...
World Bank Group President, David Malpass has expressed concern over higher poverty rates in developing countries due to war in Ukraine and COVID-19 related shutdown. A statement issued on Monday by the Bank quoted Malpass as making this known in his opening remark at the World Bank Spring Meetings...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – River State Governor, Nyesom Wike has pledged to tackle the rising insecurity and poverty bedeviling the country, if elected as president of Nigeria in 2023. Governor Wike gave the pledge on Monday while addressing the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) delegates on Monday in Maiduguri,...
Extreme poverty in West Africa rose by nearly three per cent in 2020, another fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN-backed report launched on Thursday that looks at the socio-impact of the crisis has revealed. The proportion of people living on less than 1.90 dollars a day jumped from...
Former Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar on Thursday raised concerns over the removal of fuel subsidy. General Abdulsalami, who was speaking at the 19th Daily Trust Summit in Abuja, said the country is facing challenges on multiple fronts and a fuel subsidy removal will only compound the situation. The...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says the newly launched Agro-Industrial Processing Zones in Nigeria has the potential to solve the country’s poverty, hunger and foreign exchange challenges. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Special Adviser on Industrialisation to the President of the...
It qualifies as exemplary and a right step taken in the right direction, the recent report by the Director-General of the Fund, Mr Joseph Ari, that the federal government is partnering with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) to inject N381 trillion into the economy to cushion the growing rate...
The Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Malam Abubakar Nuhu-Fikpo, has reassured Nigerians of Federal Government’s commitment to lifting more Nigerians out of poverty. Nuhu-Fikpo said this during the inauguration of a two-day advanced business training organised by the NDE as part of its Extended Special Public...