Nigeria Adds To Global Poverty - World Bank
The country will continue to be a major contributor to the global total of impoverished people until 2030, according to a World Bank report.
Street children (file photo).
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Nigeria:
New World Bank Report Targets End to Poverty By 2030
Independent (Lagos), 9 October 2014
A new report released in Washington DC by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday challenged leaders to do much more to end extreme poverty in another 16… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Ekweremadu - Insecurity, Corruption, Threat to Nation's Democracy
This Day, 9 October 2014
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday identified insecurity, corruption, poverty and unemployment, as well as the need to revamp public institutions as the major… Read more »
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Ghana:
Ghana's Economy and Nigeria's Poverty
Guardian, 6 October 2014
SIR: Ghana and Nigeria are politically and economically close as two prominent Anglophone West African countries. Ghana's primordial peace and unity accounted for her Independence… Read more »
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Africa:
Africa On the Rise - a Myth or Reality?
New Times, 8 October 2014
There has been much talk about how the African continent is on the move. This narrative was surprisingly enough, popularized by the same commentators who have traditionally looked… Read more »
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Africa:
Economic Growth in Africa May Exceed Five Per Cent in 2015-16 - World Bank
New Times, 7 October 2014
Despite weaker than expected global growth and stable or declining commodity prices, African economies continue to expand at a moderately rapid pace, with regional GDP growth… Read more »
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Africa:
UN Envoy Tasks Nigeria, Africa On Electricity, Poverty, Others
Guardian, 15 September 2014
THE United Nations Organisation (UNO) Monday lamented that Nigeria was still one of the countries in Africa that lacked adequate electricity, water and whose citizens wallow in… Read more »
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The World Bank has stated that Nigeria is one of the top five countries in the world that has the largest number of poor people, despite economic growth. Read more »
