Funmi Olotu, national coordinator of the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), says credible data and ...

Nigeria’s economy grew by 2.98 per cent in the first quarter of 2025, slightly above the 2.74 per cent recorded in the ...

Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said on Tuesday that state involvement in religious persecution was "impossible" in ...

A twist has been introduced into the narratives about Nigeria’s growing poverty rate what with the claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited that fuel subsidy payment is to blame ...

Pedestrian walk past a sign telling resident to call phone numbers if the have coronavirus symptoms in Lagos Nigeria, Tuesday May 12, 2020. © AP Photo/Sunday Alamba ...

Nigeria’s life expectancy may continue to be low if poverty, hunger, food insecurity, and poor access to healthcare continue unchecked, leading experts have warned.Already, the latest United Nations ...

Poverty is defined as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is also described as a state of being poor. To be poor is to lack ...

Nigerian leaders continue to deny that Christian genocide has been occurring for years as the United Nation has attributed ...

Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with more than 230 million people, is facing renewed international scrutiny ...

Nigeria has one of the world's biggest populations, overflowing oil reserves, and a hungry young workforce bursting with innovative ideas. So why is the West African giant still so poor that almost ...

Priors: IDRC Fellow at the Center for Global Development; Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics Studies that reflect the movement of poverty levels ...