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 ...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has decried the worsening poverty level in Nigeria, describing it as one of the nation’s greatest challenges. Atiku made the statement on his verified X handle on ...

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

President Bola Tinubu’s special adviser on economic affairs, Tope Fasua, has linked Nigeria’s persistent poverty challenges to the period following the country’s independence. Speaking in an interview ...

Abdulhamid Mohammed fled his home in northeast Nigeria in 2015, chased into neighbouring Chad by jihadists who torched homes ...

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has blamed Nigeria’s rate of poverty on poor leadership. Obi made this known at the installation ceremony of Rotary ...

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

In response to economic depression in Ghana, following a global slump in cocoa prices in the 1960s, Ghanaians began to migrate to Nigeria in droves in the 1970s to take advantage of the oil boom in ...

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

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 ...

With Nigeria's presidential elections looming, candidates seeking to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari have been making claims about key issues. We have looked at statements by Bola Ahmed ...