On August 3, 2022, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, invited food security experts, including Kwaw Andam, CGIAR Research Initiative on National...
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Nigeria aspires to lift all of its people out of poverty by 2030. This is an ambitious target, as even before COVID-19 struck, some 4 in 10 Nigerians lived below...
The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support project and in collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), launched activities in Abuja on Monday 24...
Sluggish growth, low human capital, labor market weaknesses, and exposure to shocks are holding Nigeria’s poverty reduction back says a new World Bank...
Nigeria was among the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases and has since implemented strict measures to contain the spread of the virus. At the same time...
Food insecurity is a serious, growing problem in Nigeria. It was reported that 7 out of 10 Nigerians did not have enough to eat in 2021.
At the EU-Nigeria Strategic Meeting, European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen announced, together with Minister of Budget and Economic Planning of Nigeria, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, a financial...
Unequal public investment in women and men is perpetuating gender inequality in Nigeria, which continues to take a toll on both Nigerian society and the economy.
This poverty assessment represents the culmination of the World Bank’s ongoing engagement on poverty- and inequality-relevant data and analytics in Nigeria throughout the past two years, building on many reports...
Nigeria faces a serious poverty-reduction challenge: Almost half of Nigerians are estimated to live below the national poverty line. However, unemployment is less than 5 percent.