Tag Archives: Poverty

By Ted Cruz for RealClearPolitics Two lawyers with the notorious Southern Poverty Law Center have been in the news in recent weeks. One is facing domestic terrorism charges; the other is votes away from a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. The SPLC fully supports both lawyers: Thomas Webb Jurgens, …

NASHVILLE — Jacqueline Acevedo is a shy seventh grader who spends long hours at the Baptist church where her father serves as a volunteer pastor after earning a scant wage from his day job selling bread. Gabriel Garcia is a talkative 10-year-old whose mother is a chemist but drives for …

Jean Claude Muhire, Rwanda Program Director of BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative, a flagship program at BRAC International, and Samuel Dusengiyumva, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government sign the MoU in Kigali, Rwanda. Credit BRAC UPGI. by Joyce Chimbi (kigali) Tuesday, March 21, 2023 Inter Press Service KIGALI, Mar 21 …

Former Senate President, Joseph Wayas died of poverty and not sickness, his first son, Joseph Wayas Jr, has said.   The Senate president in the Second Republic between 1979 and 1983, died at a London hospital in 2021. He was 83 years old.    Speaking with The Nation in Abuja, Wayas Jr …

The World Bank Group said the covid-19 pandemic has had a long-lasting effect on long-term growth, mainly hurting the poorest individuals and escalating extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the World Bank Group, the demanding goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity cannot be met in the medium to …

A publication by the International financial institution, World Bank, has revealed that it would cost Nigeria N3.7tn to tackle the issue of poverty. Naija News reports that the poverty rate in Nigeria has been on the rise yearly. The financial institution, however, noted in its synthesis report for the Nigeria Country …

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has reacted to the federal government’s claim of states being responsible for the increase in poverty rate in the country.   NGF’s spokesperson, AbdulRazaque Bello-Barkindo in a statement released on behalf of Governors, said the claim is baseless and far from the truth.   He stated that dereliction …

The federal government has blamed the high poverty rate in the country on state governments.    Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, who addressed State House Correspondents after the week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said failure …

The federal government has revealed that about 63 percent of persons within Nigeria (133 million,) are living in poverty.   This came off a research carried out by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund …

In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, Phrank Shaibu said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in its desperation to employ an “attack dog” to spearhead its onslaught against the opposition parties in the months leading to 2023 general elections ended up conceding the very crucial …