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 Read More
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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, Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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“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 Read More
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, Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
