Bashir said the most critical issue confronting Nigerians today is security and the protection of lives, noting that strong complaints were raised over the deteriorating security situation across many ...

15.5 million Nigerians have fallen into extreme poverty over the course of the past two years. The World Poverty Clock, a web tool based on World Data Lab's global poverty model, estimated in June ...

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 ...

Frontline activist, Aisha Yesufu has warned that hunger and poverty have been deliberately weaponized in Nigeria, describing ...

Nigeria today faces stark realities. Over 25 million citizens require humanitarian assistance annually, while more than 60 ...

Two years ago, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was inaugurated as Nigeria’s 16th president, pledging to grow the economy to $1trn, eradicate extreme poverty, and overhaul the country’s security infrastructure to ...

The Federal Government has disclosed that it has so far provided conditional cash transfers to over 34 million vulnerable ...

This is not the first time we have heard of such a bold yet impractical goal statement. The former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, ...

Poverty has risen steeply in Nigeria even as Africa’s most—populous country undertakes reforms designed to deliver economic growth, according to a new report from the World Bank. The number of ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has berated Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, accusing him of lacking moral authority to speak on poverty issues in Nigeria. In a ...

Nigerian women who are wealthier, more educated and urban are more likely to use modern contraceptives than poorer, less educated and rural women. This is one of the findings of a study that assessed ...