In April 2025, according to the World Bank Nigeria Poverty and Equity Brief Report, quoting the recent official household survey from the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics, more than three out of ...

The Presidency under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shifted responsibility for Nigeria’s staggering poverty rate to state governments and the 774 local government councils, declaring that they, not ...

The Nigerian economy grew at a robust rate of 3.4% in 2024, the highest it has been since 2019 (except 2021 when the COVID rebound occurred). This should have been cheering news, worthy of ...

Former Minister of National Planning, Prince Clement Agba, has said that the Federal Government should not be blamed for ...

It revealed that the benefits of the nation’s economic growth had been captured by a few wealthy elite at the expense of the ordinary Nigerians. The report, entitled ‘Inequality in Nigeria, Exploring ...

The report was released organised by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Represented by his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, the president said multidimensional poverty was higher in the rural ...

With the massive destruction of homes in one of Nigeria's largest slums, the Nigerian State has shamelessly gone rogue by stealthily using administrative convenience to dispossess the poor of their ...

Prison for poo is a case of a broken system punishing the poor. Nigeria’s sanitation crisis is stark. The Federal Government’s Clean Nigeria: Use a Toilet Campaign revised its initial target of ending ...

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The family of renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has accused a private hospital in Lagos of negligence over ...