The Nigerian American Social Entrepreneurs Forum (NASEF) has been relaunched in Lagos with its global convener, Bishop Priscilla Otuya, declaring enterprise ...

Oil-rich Nigeria can’t seem to catch a break. From an unemployment rate forecast to rise to 33.5% by 2020, to a global pandemic that could push at least 5 million people into poverty and, a near 14% ...

The World Bank has approved $1.25 billion in fresh financing for Nigeria and unveiled a new six-year country strategy aimed at ...

Two years ago, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was inaugurated as Nigeria’s 16th president, pledging to grow the economy to $1trn, eradicate extreme poverty, and overhaul the country’s security infrastructure to ...

A twist has been introduced into the narratives about Nigeria’s growing poverty rate what with the claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited that fuel subsidy payment is to blame ...

•FG responds, reaffirms commitment to economic reformsInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) has reported that poverty in Nigeria has climbed to 63 percent of the population, even as the country records ...

Ajegunle City, Lagos State Nigeria in 2018: Busy streets bustling with commercial activity. Shutterstock Studies that reflect the movement of poverty levels at a particular point-in-time attract a lot ...

(Abuja) – Many survivors of sex and labor trafficking struggle with unaddressed health challenges, poverty, and abhorrent conditions upon their return to Nigeria. Nigerian authorities have failed to ...

Nigerians have been justifiably confused by conflicting poverty data presented by the Muhammadu Buhari administration and the World Bank. According to Buhari, his administration has lifted 10.5 ...