The paper analyzes the poverty situation in Nigeria. Poverty holds sway in the midst of
plenty, a situation described in Nigeria's political lexicon as a 'bewildering paradox'. Among …

Poverty is by all standards a condition of deprivation that impedes human development.
Given Nigeria's vast resource base, she ordinarily should have no business with poverty. In …

Northern Nigeria is a region that contradicts its natural endowments. Despite the existence
of many economic resources such as tin, kaolin, a variety of agricultural products and a huge …

Various indicators suggest that poverty is a major obstacle to Nigeria's socio-economic
development. Poverty has persisted, and several interventions have failed to yield significant …

There is no shortage of written materials about the nature and prevalence of poverty in
Nigeria, but they are not all easily accessible by civil-society groups. This report was …

One of the main issues in development debates is how to tackle rural poverty. The
constraints to developing the rural areas as well as the problems of this critical sector have …

Nigeria has one of the greatest development potentials in Africa given the vastness of her
resources and above all her rich human resource endowment. But regardless of these …

Nigeria's travails, while hardly unique within the developing world, are surely exceptional in
their scope and persistence. Mass poverty, economic stagnation, endemic corruption …

Due to precarious socio-economic ambience and the global publicity it has generated, sub-
Saharan Africa has become synonymous with poverty, and Nigeria hosts the largest …

Despite the various poverty alleviation programmes adopted by various governments in
Nigeria, over 93 million Nigerians still live in poverty, with at least three million sliding into …