President Muhammadu Buhari has re-emphasised his administration’s determination to lift 100m Nigerians out of poverty over the next ten years.
Buhari said his administration would continue to churn out policies and programmes aimed at achieving the target.
He stated this during his closing remarks at the ministerial retreat for Ministers and presidential aides held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday.
Buhari, however, stated that Nigeria has what it takes to “weather through the storm” of its current challenges.
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The President also assured Nigerians that his administration would close …
There is need for increased partnership between the public and private sectors to address the rising incidence of poverty in the country, writes Obinna Chima
Globally, the gap between the haves and the have nots have continued to swell.
On daily basis, thousands of migrant from Africa, mostly Nigerians, attempt to enter into Europe and other continents in search of greener pastures, in order to get out of what they perceive as the excruciating poverty in the continent.
In the course of this, a lot of them migrate through dangerous route through to Europe through Libya, with thousands of them …
The minister said that the ministry was tasked with the responsibility to address some of the underlying causes, drivers and consequences of humanitarian crises and underdevelopment including.
She said this included the relatively high level of poverty of
A trio of American economists on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work in the fight against poverty, including new approaches in education and healthcare, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Indian-born Abhijit Banerjee of the US, his French-American wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer of the US were honoured “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty,” the jury said.
“This year’s laureates have introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty,” the jury said.
The three found efficient ways of combatting poverty by breaking down difficult issues …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decried the recent arrest of sex workers and closure of brothels in Umuahia, the Abia capital, on the orders of the state government.
Ms Uche Nwokocha, the Coordinator of NHRC in Abia, described the action as as “the criminalisation of poverty” by the government and its agencies.
Nwokocha said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Wednesday.
NAN reports that the state government had ordered the immediate shutdown of some brothels in the state capital, alleging that they had become hideouts for crminials.
It also directed …
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Office for West Africa has raised the alarm that 200 million or 53.5 per cent of West Africans live below poverty line.
It said that West Africa had a population of about 377 million in 2018.
The of Director UNECA, Bakary Dosso, said at the Expert Group Meeting
Draft Agenda in Liberia that the situation demonstrated the magnitude of the challenges the sub-region was facing.
The countries in the sub-region needed to institute major reforms to their macro-economic and financial frameworks, invest in human capital, tackle infrastructure deficits.
