Nigeria: Let's Declare War Against Poverty

19 September 2018
analysis

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.

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