The Minster of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has emphasised the need for Nigeria to engage in local production to help boost the economy and solve many challenges ravaging the country. He said there is no reason for Nigeria to continue spending huge money in importing herbal products from other countries, “ when we…

The Commissioner of Police (CP), Federal Intelligence Bureau Abuja, Ahmed Abdulrahman, has enjoined Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of given alms especially to the less-privileged in the society. He said the reason for the intense poverty and hunger in the society was as a result of the failure of people to render help to the…

President Muhammadu Buhari has decried the excruciating poverty in the country, adding that the situation makes him uncomfortable. Speaking during the breaking of fast at Aso Villa on Monday night, the president regretted the failure of the elite to address the welfare and educational needs of the less privileged in the society. He charged the…

The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has decried the high level of poverty that is engendering crime and also making Nigeria to be perceived as the piracy capital in the globe. Peterside, who spoke in Abuja yesterday during 2019 budget defence session for the agency before the…

Growing up in impoverished urban neighborhoods more than doubles your chances over the average person of developing a psychosis-spectrum disorder by the time you reach middle adulthood, according to a new University of California (UC) Davis, United States (U.S.), and Concordia University, Canada, study of nearly 4,000 families who were monitored over 30 years. The…

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has launched its Country Programming Framework to enable Nigeria achieve food security reduce poverty nationwide. The FAO Representative, Ambassador Suffyan Koroma, who spoke during the official presentation yesterday in Abuja, added that the five-year plan would lead to the attainment of its 2030 agenda of zero hunger in the…

The leader of South Africa's main opposition party urged voters Saturday to give "change a chance" in next week's general election after 25 years of ANC rule. "Let us be brave and give change a chance," Mmusi Maimane told more than 10,000 Democratic Alliance supporters at Dobsonville stadium in Soweto. South Africans go to the…

A quarter of a century after the end of the apartheid in South Africa, large swathes of population still aren't free given abject poverty and high unemployment and the scourge of corruption affecting the country, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Saturday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has described education as a potent weapon against Boko Haram, poverty and unemployment among youths in the Northeast. Buhari declared this yesterday at Shehu of Borno’s palace in Maiduguri, while commissioning 10 projects in the education, health, housing and roads sectors in the state. “Education is very imperative in tackling insecurity, particularly…

Nigeria’s former World Bank Country Director, Mr. Hafiz Ghanem, now Vice President of African Region for the Bank has allayed fears raised by Breton Woods Institutions' alarm over the continent’s possible relapse into poverty trap by 2030. The new World Bank President, Mr. David Malpass, who raised the alarm, said 27 African countries are already…

Unless urgent rescue plans are employed, nine of every 10 African nations would be living in abject poverty, the World Bank has warned. Paradoxically, the same year is the global financial institution’s target for ending extreme poverty worldwide. The development, that is already giving World Bank President, David Malpass, concerns was given by the global…

“We recognize that the engine of growth and development for any developing nation today lies in the ability to strategically cultivate and harness private as well as public sector efforts’ - Babatunde Raji Fashola – September 15, 2008 I remember reading soberly sometimes in 2008 a report of how Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) then Executive Governor…