What is the state of poverty in Nigeria? Poverty in Nigeria comes in various forms: a lack of income and productive resources to sustain livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; illness and death; and ...

Can we continue to tolerate the reality that a child born in Nigeria today faces one of the highest risks of being born into ...

More Nigerians are likely to be plunged into poverty this year, despite inflation slowing for most of 2025, deepening ...

PwC projects Nigeria’s poverty rate will reach 62 percent by 2026, leaving about 141 million people poor as weak incomes and ...

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 ...

No fewer than 141 million Nigerians are expected to live in poverty this year, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC, revealed in its Nigeria Economic Outlook 2026 report.However, economists and experts, who ...

Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has stated that more than half of the population in Nigeria live in poverty while ...

Citing data from the World Bank, Obi noted that the number of Nigerians living in poverty rose from 81 million in 2019 to ...

A twist has been introduced into the narratives about Nigeria’s growing poverty rate what with the claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited that fuel subsidy payment is to blame ...

Oil-rich Nigeria can’t seem to catch a break. From an unemployment rate forecast to rise to 33.5% by 2020, to a global pandemic that could push at least 5 million people into poverty and, a near 14% ...