Embarrassed by a recent Brookings Report that rated Nigerians as the most impoverished country globally, the Federal Government on Wednesday described the report as not factual, claiming that the report findings as not reflecting the true state of poverty level in the country. The Minister of Industry Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, who stoutly refuted […]
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152m Nigerians Live Below Poverty Line – AfDB
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has reported that about 152 million Nigerians live on less than $2 a day, indicating that about 80 percent of the country’s estimated 190 million population is extremely poor.