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133 Million Nigerians Are Multidimensionally Poor
The National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that 63 per cent of persons living in Nigeria are multidimensionally poor. This is about 133 people of the over 200 million people living in the country. NBS highlighted this in its 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Survey. According to the report, over half of the population of…
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Why The UK Plans To Cut Import Taxes On Goods From Africa
The UK’s Department for International Trade has revealed plans to cut taxes by around 99% of goods imported from some African countries in a new trading scheme. The Developing Countries Trading Scheme, implemented in January 2023, would focus on boosting trade links between the UK and lower-income nations across the globe. The Department for International…
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Fuel Truck Explosion Kills 13 People in Kenya
Kenyan Police have confirmed that 13 people were killed and many others seriously burned when an overturned petrol tanker exploded in western Kenya as crowds thronged to collect the spilling fuel. The fuel truck collided with another vehicle and toppled over late on Saturday near Malanga, some 315km (195 miles) northwest of Nairobi, on the…
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Zamfara Home To Highest Number Of Poor Nigerians
According to data from the National Social Registry, Zamfara State has the highest number of the poor and vulnerable people in Nigeria, with a record of 3,836,484 people from 825,337 households. The Communications Manager of the National Social Safety-Net Coordinating Office, Joe Abuku, who made the data available, said the Federal Government has documented 35,267,966…
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Conditional Cash Transfer: Poverty Reduction Programme Marred By Ricketiness
This story is a result of Orodata’s Micro-Grant support to journalists to produce in-depth investigative and data-driven stories on thematic areas like Development, Healthcare, Covid-19, and Covid-19 Vaccine. It began with a 183 km journey from Lagos to Ede-South local government area of Osun state. According to the data made available by the National Social…
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Unemployment To Push More Nigerians Into Poverty
Many Nigerians are expected to fall into the poverty amid rising unemployment in the country, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group has said. The NESG, a private sector-led think-tank, noted in its economic report for the first quarter of 2021 that the country’s economic growth in the period under review was relatively weak. “Nigeria’s economic…
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How Insecurity, Poverty Threaten Education In Nigeria
“I’ve never felt this much pain in my life — it’s unimaginable .At first, they were demanding 800 million naira from the families of the kidnapped students … then they started killing the students to show they were serious,” Ojotun, whose 18 year-old sister was among students kidnapped in Greenfield University, Kaduna, had explained. He…
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In 10yrs, Nigeria Unemployment Grew By Over 400 percent
According to data collected from the National Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rate of Nigeria has grown by 445 percent in the last 10 years. While the nation still combats economic instabilities within the year in view, the expectation by different governments to reduce unemployment has failed as the data obtained shows a steady increase…
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A Report On Poverty Rates In Lagos State
Lagos is home to a rising population of 14,862,111, the economic capital of Nigeria has a poverty rate estimated at 8.5 percent. Lagos is often referred to as the “Megacity of Slums, it has over 6,000 millionaires (and even multi-millionaires and a handful of billionaires) while a vast majority live below extreme poverty levels. Research…
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30 Million Nigerians Affected as COVID-19 Increases Learning Poverty to 63% ― World Bank
The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the weaknesses of education systems around the world and might have increased Learning Poverty rate by 10 points, from 53 per cent to 63 per cent in low and middle-income countries like Nigeria, revealed a recent report by the World Bank. The report was titled “Realising the…