Insecurity May Worsen Unemployment, Poverty - Report Insecurity challenges in the country which continued after 2022 may worsen poverty and high unemployment rate in 2023, according to a report by Augusto & Co, a research, credit ratings, and risk management firm. The firm said in its...

Our Development Plan will Lift 35m out of Poverty, Generate 21m Jobs - FG     The Minister of State for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba, has said the implementation of the new national development plan would lift 35 million Nigerians out of poverty...

KWASSIP and the Battle Against Poverty In Kwara If there is anything that breaks my heart each time I step out of my house in Ilorin, it is the sight of women begging for money to feed. I have been very devastated about this, because...

Poor Nigerians To Hit 95.1m In 2022 - World Bank   The World Bank has said that poverty reduction stagnated since 2015, with more Nigerians falling below the poverty line over the years. President Muhammadu Buhari was first elected into the office of president of Nigeria in...

Cash Transfer: Minister Says Some Nigerians Haven’t Seen N5,000 Before The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouk, has dismissed as “elitist assertion” comments that the regime’s N5,000 monthly national conditional cash transfer to some poor and vulnerable people is insufficient...

Inflation May Push 91m Nigerians Below Poverty Line – W/Bank The World Bank says the general increase in food prices which occurred between June 2020 and June 2021 may have increased the percentage of Nigerians living below the national poverty line from 40.1 per cent...