Adequate financial and digital literacy among women can help bridge the gender gap in Nigeria and alleviate poverty among women, the founder and chief impact officer, Rendra Foundation

The increase in the prices of food items, which dragged the nation’s core headline inflation to 14.23 per cent in October, up from 13.71 per cent in September, will compound the poverty level among Nigerians.

The environment is an important factor in child development. The neighbourhood, family, religious centres, school are a deciding factor to influencing the development of every child. Hence, it is important to ensure that our children’s emotions are not mortgaged. According to Thankgod Ocheho, child psychologist and founder, TGM Consulting, a child development resource outfit, there…

82.9 Million Nigerians Currently Live Below Poverty Line— ActionAid Lead Director of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), Mr. Eze Onyekpere, has said Nigeria is broke and is borrowing money to service old debts. Speaking at a two-day National Summit on Tax and Development, organised by ActionAid Nigeria, in Abuja, Onyekpere said continued borrowing to…

As this newspaper specifically noted here on September 1, 2016, restructuring and federalism have become the most misrepresented words even by those who should understand and work for their actualisation in the interest of peace and progress of Nigeria. To some political commentators, it is an idea whose time has come. To some others, it…

Economic growth is the most powerful tool for reducing poverty and improving the quality of life in developing countries especially Nigeria. Indeed, one of the major challenges of the 21st Century is the need to reduce poverty levels and economic inequality globally. These were the words of Head, Strategic Partnerships, Microsoft 4Afrika, Soromfe Uzomah while…

Beloved, that great programme much expected this year, that time of our visitation when the Lord will cause our enemies to submit to us is at hand. We must understand that the duties of our enemies are to steal, kill, and destroy. He has no other design in coming than to plunder, pinch, demolish, cause…

Nigeria needs an annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $1 trillion to lift people above the poverty line but falls short at only $448 billion. The shortfall is compounded by about 50 per cent post-harvest losses and food waste. Hence, establishing agribusiness in every local government area, where value could be added to fresh crops,…

Social enterprise, Thank you, has initiated a plan to make P&G and Unilever, two of the world’s largest and most influential consumer goods companies to make and distribute their products globally to help end extreme poverty.    To convince the companies to make the move, they are asking people around the world to get involved and…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reposition his government and address the economic and security challenges facing the country. The former ruling party expressed sadness that Nigerians are celebrating the country’s 60th independence anniversary without much to show for it. In a statement, yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola…

The Federal Government has pledged to work with member states of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to promote human health and general well-being...

Financial inclusion, particularly at the grassroots, has been described as a veritable tool for bringing people out of poverty. It will ensure that factors that make them vulnerable