A president and the poverty red herring
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s friends promote the narrative that he is poor, and he himself is enamoured with an “accolade” that holds him up as a clean man in the land of treasury thieves. They see virtue in his poverty, an idea which sits perfectly well with the hackneyed tale of integrity
RSSF: Supporting Real sector for poverty reduction
THERE are four things of strategic importance which are lacking largely in most African economies and have resulted in the retardation of growth and development and prevalence of poverty in the vastly endowed continent.
Global goal to end poverty by 2030 unlikely – World Bank
People living on less than 1.90 dollars a day have fallen to record low of about 655 million – or nine per cent of the world’s population.
We have moved 10m Nigerians out of poverty – FG
The federal government has boasted that it has moved 10.073million Nigerians from poverty to prosperity.
Addressing extreme poverty in Nigeria
EARLIER in June, the Brookings Institution, an American think-tank research group, published data from the World Poverty Clock which showed that Nigeria, with the latest estimated population of 200 million, had overtaken India (1.32 billion population) as the “poverty capital” of the world. Specifically, it reported that with 87 million people already living below the poverty line, six new people fall into extreme poverty every minute.
Poverty: Foreign aid doing Nigeria more harm than good – Kalu
Prof. Kenneth Kalu of the Ryerson University Canada has decried the culture of dependency on foreign aid by countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, saying it has done more harm than good to the people.
