The Senator representing Osun East Senatorial District, Francis Fadahunsi has stressed the need to empower women and youth to check rising insecurity, as well as poverty across the country.

In the aftermath of the EndSARS protests across the country against police brutality, a non-governmental organisation, the Society for Community Development, SCD, has called on governors of the 36 states of the federation and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to come up with strategies required to address poverty and illiteracy in their respective domains.

Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources says that the Federal Government plans to lift five million Nigerians out of poverty in the next 10 years. Adamu said this at the 2nd edition of the Nigerian Media Water week in Abuja on Monday. He said the Ministry through its water projects would fast track […]

The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (GMD/CEO) of Jamub Group of Companies, Prince Jacob Momoh, has said that the organization has diversified and adopted strategies towards fighting youth unemployment and poverty in the country.

Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has underscored the importance of skill acquisition in the fight against poverty. Okowa stated this when the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) in the state, led by Hajia Aisha Hafiz-Inuwa, wife of the Commissioner of Police, visited him at Government House, Asaba. He said that skill acquisition was the […]

By Omeiza Ajayi The COVID-19 Pandemic brought with it so many things and even helped to expand the vocabularies of many students. For a long time, some were not conversant with words such as Coronavirus (a family of viruses to which COVID-19 belongs), pandemic and then, palliatives, which is often used in medical circles. With […]

The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology says it is working on plans to create the desired platform for the actualisation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s quest of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next 10 years. Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister said this in Abuja at the inauguration of a Technical Committee […]

BY Victoria Ojeme Ghanaian President and  newly elected Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)  Nana Akufo-Addo, has said on Monday that terrorist groups are exploiting the high rate of poverty in West Africa to perpetrate their activities. Akufo- Addo made this known […]

Determined to put an end to extreme poverty among the people, Kwara State Government has commenced disbursement of interest-free loan, tagged ‘Owo Isowo’, to petty traders under its social investment programme.

 The ripple effects of COVID- 19 pandemic has reportedly increased poverty by seven percent, set the world back 25 years in vaccine coverage and stopped 20 years of progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals).

By Charles Amechi A report of a meeting between governors of the six states in the North-East region of Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari was published on August 11, 2020. The report revealed that the governors had decried the troubling state of insecurity in the region and identified poverty as the major factor responsible. It […]

…Mobilises for national mass action By Clifford Ndujihe LEADERS of the National Consultative Front, NCF, are mobilising for a nationwide mass action over political corruption, insecurity and poverty in the country on account of what they consider as President Muhammadu Buhari’s helplessness over the issues. Led by Professor Pat Utomi, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba, and […]

It is believed that Africans have never worked together in the fight for economic independence because they don’t have the culture of working together. On the other hand, it is also believed by some scholars that Africans do have a culture of working together but lack the understanding of a vision and direction. Whichever one […]

There’s a saying that “Welfare Offers Short-Term Help And Long-Term Poverty” and the truth is, only lazy people believe otherwise. Also, Abraham Lincoln once said “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves” No doubts, with the above sayings, welfare destroys the future of those who depend on […]

The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, spoke on Monday when the House of Representatives Committee on National Planning and Economic Development led by its Chairman, Hon. Olododo Abdulganiyu Saka, visited the ministry in pursuance of its oversight function.