The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has identified poverty as the major cause of insecurity in Nigeria.

FOR many Nigerians, poverty is likely to get more acute in 2026. The Nigeria Economic Outlook 2026 report, published in the first week of the New Year by PricewaterhouseCoopers (a global financial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has lamented that Nigeria had become one of the hungriest and most insecure countries in the world. Naija ...

President Bola Tinubu’s special adviser on economic affairs, Tope Fasua, has linked Nigeria’s persistent poverty challenges to the period following the country’s independence. Speaking in an interview ...

Energy expert Nick Agule says Nigeria ranks worst globally for energy poverty, citing poor power supply and systemic failures ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has berated Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, accusing him of lacking moral authority to speak on poverty issues in Nigeria. In a ...

History shows us that over the last century and a half, a ‘war on poverty’ - to borrow the words of US President Lyndon ...

Poverty has risen steeply in Nigeria even as Africa’s most—populous country undertakes reforms designed to deliver economic growth, according to a new report from the World Bank. The number of ...