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Nigeria:
World Bank Earmarks U.S.$140 Million for Community Development
This Day, 9 April 2014
The World Bank has approved $140 million additional support for community development in Nigeria. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Nigeria, Third On World Poverty Index- - World Bank
Vanguard, 11 April 2014
THE World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, yesterday, at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings restated that Nigeria is one of the top five countries that has the largest number… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Continent's Biggest Economy, But '70% Extreme Poverty'
Premium Times, 6 April 2014
Barely days after being listed by the World Bank as one of five countries with the highest number of extremely poor people, Nigeria has declared a Gross Domestic Product, GDP, of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
The Condition of the Nation - Poverty and Insecurity
Vanguard, 11 April 2014
THE statement that Nigeria is a poor country has become an axiom and that majority of Nigerians wallow in abject poverty is no longer news. The fact is that the Nigerian… Read more »
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Africa:
Nigeria vs South Africa - Size Matters, but So Does Development
Daily Trust, 11 April 2014
What matters more: the size of the pie or how many mouths it has to feed? It depends whether you're eating pies, or selling them. Read more »
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Africa:
Nigeria Overtakes South Africa As the Continent's Largest Economy
DW, 8 April 2014
Africa has a new economic frontrunner. Nigeria has released figures suggesting the oil-rich country has overtaken South Africa in terms of gross domestic product. But do the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Africa's Largest Economy, FG Ridiculed Itself - APC
Vanguard, 10 April 2014
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as an orchestrated distraction and a mindless public relations gimmick the ongoing hullabaloo about the rebasing of Nigeria's GDP… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Poverty of Voodoo Statistics
Premium Times, 7 April 2014
Yesterday, our dear country Nigeria leap-frogged South Africa and became Africa's largest economy. We did this by changing the base line for calculating our GDP from 1990 to 2000.… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Okonjo-Iweala - Nigeria Must Turn the Tide On Poverty
This Day, 2 April 2014
The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has reiterated the need for the Nigerian economy to grow faster in order to turn the tide… Read more »
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Nigeria:
The Poverty Question, Again
This Day, 6 April 2014
This is simply ironic. I was, recently, at the Harvard Kennedy School, United States, for an executive course on "Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century". On the… Read more »
