A new international study has revealed that more Nigerians have become extremely poor. According to data released by World Poverty…
Browsing: poverty
Director-General of International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, is calling for sustained social spending and structural changes to counter the…
In a video address to the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity on Wednesday, Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), QU…
The federal government has inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Technical Expert Committee to work out the modalities of lifting 100 million Nigerians…
What makes a revolution? Knowledge. Information. Awareness. Awakening. The biblical Moses was a prince in the ménage of the persecutors…
It is globally recognized that every citizen of a modern nation is a subject of the state, and once a…
In Ofunama, an Ijaw community in Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State, seven-year Josephine, does not appear to…
A new briefing paper by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) says the COVID-19 lockdown and containment measures are threatening to increase…
It’s amazing how some people are responding to the challenges posed by this COVID-19 pandemic. A university in Japan just…
Whatever you don’t tolerate in your life will not stay. Having a zero-tolerance for poverty means you disdain, detest, loathe,…
Extreme or moderate working poverty is expected to edge up this 2020 through 2021 in developing countries like Nigeria, thus,…
The three phenomena of poverty, crime, and life, are what stare you directly when you make your way into Kabong,…
There is no other country in the world where current politicians and their alter ego of crony businessmen steal and…
In spite of ending 2018 with 91 million of its citizens living in extreme poverty, Nigeria burnt an alarming $9.01…
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) Regional Director for Africa, , says gainful employment is still the most reliable way of…
A new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) says strategies to increase access to decent work and tackle poverty…
Prof Charles Soludo, Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has called for collective response in tackling poor healthcare…
President Muhammadu Buhari says reducing extreme poverty and hunger is one of the cardinal objectives of his administration. The president…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has again come under the hammer of the Peoples Democratic…
Pope Francis pressed for the poor to have the dignity of work as he visited a quarry site in Madagascar…
Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, a one-term senator and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, has been challenged by…
When politicians failed you, professors failed you, bosses failed you, banks failed you, relatives failed you, pastors and imams failed…
Are Nigerians poorer today than they were in 2015? Yes, if we go by data and economic indicators. In June…
Humanium, an international child sponsorship civil society group dedicated to stopping violations of children’s rights throughout the world, says no…
Last week, I had written about my beloved Arewa and the dire situation that she finds herself. I ended that…
People are committing suicide in greater number than we have ever witnessed.It cuts across all spectra regardless of income and…
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has reacted to remark credited to the…
The Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo has revealed the problem of extreme poverty in Nigeria gives him sleepless nights.…