Not many Nigerians were surprised when the country was adjudged the poverty capital of the world, recently.
Nigeria had reportedly taken over as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people, a report by Brookings Institution had shown. Before now, India used to hold the position with a population of 1.324 billion people as against Nigeria's estimated 200 million.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article