Pallia-thieves: How a cocktail of hunger, anger, illiteracy, fake news, poverty and greed fueled uprising
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 […]
Health practitioner links poverty to ill health
A Medical Imaging Scientist, Dr Livinus Abonyi, on Friday called on the federal government to tackle all of forms poverty with greater vigour, in order to reduce the burden of ill health in the country.
FG committed to taking 100m Nigerians out of Poverty – Malami
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says the Federal Government is committed to taking one hundred million Nigerians out of abject poverty. Malami said this in a statement issued by Dr Umar Gwandu, Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Office of the Minister on Tuesday in Abuja. The […]
Peace guarantees no meal in starving South Sudan
South Sudan villagers hear the distant roar of jet engines before a cargo plane makes a deafening pass over Mogok, dropping sacks of grain from its hold to the marooned dust bowl below. There is no other way to get food to this starving hamlet in South Sudan. There are no roads, and the snaking […]
Child flourishing: Nigerians ranks among bottom 10 countries globally ― WHO
By Chioma Obinna A landmark report released by a Commission convened by the World Health Organization, WHO, UNICEF and The Lancet, has ranked Nigeria in the bottom 10 for performance on child flourishing. In the report, tagged: “A Future for the World’s Children”, which compared child flourishing in a new global index of 180 countries, […]
Adopt policies that’ll tackle poverty, unemployment, Ngige tells Labour Centre
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru Minister of Labour and Employment and Chairman of the Government Group of the Governing Board of the International Labour Organization, ILO, Senator Chris Ngige has urged the member countries of the African Regional Labour Centre ( ARLAC) to adopt active policies and programmes to tackle unemployment and poverty in order to check […]
Buhari’s minister says skill acquisition key to poverty reduction
FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has identified skills acquisition as the most enduring tool in tackling the twin problem of poverty and unemployment among youths and women.
Perpetual curse of poverty in Nigeria
By Dele Sobowale The poverty level of the North is 80 per cent; while in the South, the percentage is 20 per cent, simply because of the culture of marrying many wives and producing many children who, at the end, are left on the streets to beg for what to eat — The Emir of […]
Land of extreme wealth and of extreme poverty
It is natural to develop some vested interests in a place when you have lived there for as long as I lived in FESTAC town.So ten years after I left, I still know about the traffic to and from the town; I am aware of the congestion in parts of the town that is threatening to turn them into slums; I know about the rising crime caused in the main by a growing number of loitering, jobless youths.
ANEEJ has sustained fight against poverty, injustice for 25 years — Ugolor
As Uwais refutes alleged World Bank’s report on poverty index By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Executive Director of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev. David Ugolor, Tuesday, disclosed that the organization has sustained a fight against poverty and all forms of injustice for 25 years. Ugolor stated this in his address […]
Nsukka indigenes condemn youth empowerment with wheelbarrows
By Ikechukwu Odu – Nsukka A poverty alleviation outreach organized by the transition committee Chairman of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Chinwe Ugwu, has received wide condemnation from the general public. Ugwu, in the programme put together in conjunction with National Council of Enugu State Students, NACESS, had distributed wheelbarrows to the youths […]
