Sultan of Sokoto bemoans low impact of Poverty Alleviation Programmes
THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar, has lamented the disconnect between poverty alleviation programmes and poverty in the country.
Poverty of ideas, corruption, inefficiency killing Civil Service, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria’s civil service has lost its steam to poverty of ideas and corruption, which have resulted in inefficiency and poor output.
Nigeria has no business with poverty – Buhari
President Mohammadu Buhari has said that Nigerians have no business with poverty given the enormous resources which God has endowed the country with.
“Poverty is no excuse to shun insurance”
Immediate past President of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, CIIN, Mr. Wole Adetimehin has said that Nigerians should stop using poverty as an excuse for shunning insurance.
Why Nigeria may not achieve MDGs, by don
NIGERIANS have been warned that eradication of poverty and hunger may remain a mirage in the country despite the declarations by the federal and state governments to abide with the Millennium Development Goals.
Passports, privileges, poverty
ONE of the most urgent bills before the National Assembly is one seeking amendments to the 2004 Passport Act. It has gone through the second reading at the House of Representatives and it is a matter of time for the amendments to become law.
Now slave trade booms with ‘black’ merchants
Strangely, in Nigeria, 206 years after the 1807 abolition of slave trade by Britian and 15 years into the yearly remembrance of victims by the United Nations, the business has taken a new twist with two forms— internal and international— booming. Focus has shifted from energetic men preferred by Europeans for labour on plantations, to women and teenage girls as young as eight.
Africa: Poverty, hunger attributed to decline in agriculture
Dr Kanayo Nwanze, the President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has identified the decline in agriculture as the cause of hunger and poverty in Africa which he described as waste of human lives.
Govt targets poverty reduction through insurance
In a quest to reduce poverty in the economy, the Federal Government is putting finishing touches on the insurance industry bill for onward transmission to the National Assembly.
Merit, quota system and all that
OUR sense of democracy may be warped. There is still a large group of Nigerian youths who are deprived of freedom to learn because of poverty or prejudice or the absence of adequate educational facilities.
Jigawa in a new world
A LITTLE over six years ago, Jigawa State was rated by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, as the poorest state in Nigeria. At a public lecture in Kaduna, former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Prof Charles Soludo, after reviewing the figures from across the North, reached the sad conclusion thus: “Poverty is still a Northern phenomenon”.
