Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Islamic police in Nigeria round up children living on streets to put them in camp "for their rehabilitation"

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Authorities in northern Nigeria's largest city have begun evacuating more than 5,000 street children seen as a "security threat...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Video - Parents pay school fees with recyclables in Nigeria

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A school in Lagos, Nigeria accepts recyclable trash for tuition. The idea helps keep more children in school while keeping trash off Lagos...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Video - Makoko faces new threat

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Makoko is located in the country's commercial city of Lagos and is mainly inhabited by a fishing community that has lived there for ab...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Video - Nigeria ranked 103 out of 121 most hunger-affected nations

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For the second year in a row, Nigeria has been ranked as having one of the worst hunger problems on earth. Continued violence in Nigeria i...
Friday, October 14, 2022

‘Nigeria to house world’s poorest people by 2030′

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  A professor of economic policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Stefan Dercon, has revealed that by 2030, extr...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Nigerian growth lags Africa, poverty rising, says World Bank

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ABUJA, June 15 (Reuters) - Nigerian economic growth has resumed after the COVID shock but is lagging the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, with fo...
Monday, November 26, 2018

The despair of Nigeria's poor

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Emita Dida, a widowed mother of six, has been living in "Monkey Village" for more than a decade. She is one of thousands of Nige...