Nigeria ranked 118 out of 144 countries in the 2016 Global Gender Gap Report; the average income of a Nigerian woman ($4,280) was more than $3,000 lower than that of a male counterpart ($7,483).

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, has described Nigeria as the home to the highest number of “very poor people” in the world. May, who started her tour in Africa yesterday ...

Former Commonwealth Secretary General Emeka Anyaoku has called for Nigeria’s full-scale restructuring, warns current ...

In a nation as richly endowed yet deeply unequal as Nigeria, poverty remains one of the greatest challenges of our time.

If, like the research reveals: “Over 90 million people in Nigeria, (or) nearly 50 per cent of its population, are living in poverty”, then the volcano on which we sit, cannot but be an active one.

Time Insecurity And Poverty In Nigeria. ... Using myself as an example, I was involved in a very large rice mill in Sokoto state from 1988 to 1990 and regretted having to leave it to return to Lagos.

In 2018, Nigeria overtook India as the World’s Poverty Capital, and held on to the title till 2021 before relinquishing back to the Asian country. Now, it is the second largest host of persons ...

The presidency has faulted the IMD over the assessment of Nigeria’s economic reforms, inflation, and poverty levels.

A man sells socks in Lekki, Nigeria, Sept. 12. (Credit: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters via CNS.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – To tackle poverty in Nigeria, the country must overcome institutions that ...

Earlier, Nigeria, in 2018, emerged as the global poverty headquarters, according to data by the World Poverty Clock. At the time, the nation had the largest number of people living in extreme poverty.

Ignoring a seemingly minor outbreak of violence, as in Borno State in 2009 and Agatu in 2016 had pitched Nigeria into the hell we are experiencing now; and which is deepening poverty.