Nigeria: Govt Faults Nigeria's Poverty Rating

The federal government yesterday dismissed a recent report rating Nigeria as a country with extremely poor people in the world. Minister of Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enalamah, who revealed this after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the presidential villa said the latest Bookings Institute's rating of Nigeria as the headquarters of poverty in the world should not border Nigerians because the report may have been compiled when the nation was in economic recess.

The report had stated that, while India used to hold the first poverty predominance position with a population of 1.324 billion people as against Nigeria's 200 million, Nigeria now has about 87 million people in extreme poverty, compared to India's 73 million.

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