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 are ...

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% ...

How can we use poverty and inequality gaps to understand issues of governance and insecurity and evolving social problems in Nigeria? In this piece, I attempt to show why it is important to reduce ...

Nigeria’s agriculture story is often told with pride. We speak of hectares cultivated, yields improved, farmers mobilised, ...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has decried the worsening poverty level in Nigeria, describing it as one of the nation’s greatest challenges. Atiku made the statement on his verified X handle on ...

Poverty and cultural norms have been identified as major contributors to Nigeria’s ongoing malnutrition crisis, despite the ...

For decades, Nigeria’s middle class symbolised stability, aspiration and economic balance, families that could afford decent ...

Former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed concern over the deepening poverty level in the country, describing it as one of the nation’s greatest ...

Research associate, John and Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, University of Bradford India has just recently overtaken Nigeria as the country with the largest number of people living in ...

A UK-based psychiatrist and university don, Professor Olufemi Oluwatayo, has linked the rising cases of suicide in Nigeria to the worsening poverty level across the country, stressing that economic ...

As part of the changes, the corporate income tax rate has been reduced from 30 per cent to 25 per cent. Small businesses with ...

Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a Youtube video that it had been working in collaboration with the World Bank to adopt the latest International Labour Organisation guidelines for ...