A World Bank report suggests N20,000 monthly cash transfers could lift 13.9M people out of poverty in Nigeria, urging reform ...

Paul Alaje, a senior economist, said on Saturday that Africa’s poverty crisis is being driven by weak institutions, low ...

The Nigerian economy grew at a robust rate of 3.4% in 2024, the highest it has been since 2019 (except 2021 when the COVID rebound occurred). This should have been cheering news, worthy of ...

Nigeria’s life expectancy may continue to be low if poverty, hunger, food insecurity, and poor access to healthcare continue unchecked, leading experts have warned. Already, the latest United Nations ...

Funmi Olotu, national coordinator of the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), says credible data and ...

According to the global bank, increase in headline inflation has forced millions of Nigerians into hunger. This development would mean that poor Nigerians jumped from 40.1 per cent in 2018 to 56 per ...

It is named after a massive nearby rubbish dump, but people are queuing up to move into Abuja's Big Bola slum as rents ...

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Ahead of the 2030 deadline to end open defecation nationwide, Vice President Kashim Shettima on Monday disclosed that Nigeria loses N455 billion annually due to poor sanitation, warning that open ...

While proponents argue these reforms will modernize Nigeria’s tax system, they fundamentally miss the point: you cannot tax ...