The Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions (NASU) has blamed the rising poverty among Nigerians on inadequate infrastructure in the country.

From the way these highly-placed Nigerians used these words, nobody would have thought those words constituted what we now know as ‘hate speech’, ‘fake news’ and ‘irresponsible journalism’.

Dear Naija children, thirty years ago – long before many of you were born – the world came together to write a document that would help to defend and protect your rights.

For decades, the global narrative about Africa has dwelt on poverty, violence, diseases, and un civilization.

Pope Francis on Sunday hosted around 1,500 poor and homeless people for lunch at the Vatican, decrying indifference to poverty as the Catholic Church marked its World Day of the Poor.

Text: 1 Sam. 17:38-50 In life, there are battles to be fought. It’s only when you confront and conquer the giant that you can make progress in life. Anytime you want to achieve something great in life, the devil will put a Goliath before you so that you will not cross over. But if you…

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and the Federal Government have commenced a Human Capital Development (HCD) plan towards moving 24 million Nigerians out of poverty before 2030.

In the 20 months since I wrote “Drafting a people’s manifesto” and “Further notes on the people’s manifesto” (February/March, 2018), a sufficient number of significant things have happened and are happening in our country, Nigeria

The world is hungry, but ironically, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Sabo Nanono, argues that Nigerians are not. A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) noted that about 795 million people globally do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life.

The official announcement of the proposal to “shore up” the economy via the instrumentality of a 7.2% hike in Value Added Tax (VAT) on a variety of consumer items and of the thankfully rested re-introduction of payment of toll on a number of the nation’s major highways in the wake of the setting up of a “crack” Economic Advisory Council...

Financial expert, Prof Raphael Igbinosa Adeghe, of the Department of Banking and Finance, on Thursday, said financial inclusion remains a potent tool to tackle rising poverty, insecurity, and other socio-economic challenges in the country.

A financial expert, Prof, Raphael Igbinosa Adeghe of the Department of Banking and Finance at Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO) has said that financial inclusion remains a potent tool to tackle the rising poverty, insecurity and other socio-economic challenges in the country.