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Over 1.1 million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty in just four months, a report by the World Poverty Clock, a Vienna-based World Data Lab, has said.
The latest report according to The Cable, has brought the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty - or below $1.90 per day, to 88 million.

In June 2018, the Brookings Institution named Nigeria as the poverty capital of the world, with 86.9 million extremely poor people.

Nigeria overtook India as the world poverty capital, despite being six times smaller in population than the Asian country.

According to the World Poverty Clock, created by Vienna-based World Data Lab, 88,011,759 Nigerians are currently living in extreme poverty.

The World Bank, IMF, United Nations, and major development institutions across the world forecast that Nigeria will not attai the 2030 target for ending global poverty.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also suggest that West Africa, primarily, Nigeria will host 40 percent of the world's poorest people by 2030.
/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/11/01/88m-nigerians-now-living-in-extreme-poverty-says-report/

However, as a party, we wish to reiterate, that we will not hesitate forming a parallel government, if the 2015 election are rigged either by the use of security agencies (police or military) to harass, intimidate and cajole voters or through the use of a compromise Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).”

https://www.nairaland.com/2077031/apc-insists-itll-form-parallel#29507131

APC forming parallel systems since 2014

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died aged 65 after a battle with cancer, party officials have said.

Elias Mudzuri, a vice president of the Movement for Democratic Change party, reported Tsvangirai's death in a post on Twitter on Wednesday.

"It is sad for me to announce that we have lost our icon and fighter for democracy," Mudzuri wrote.

Tsvangirai had been in and out of hospital in South Africa after revealing in 2016 that he had colon cancer.

Read more about Tsvangirai here.

He served as prime minister under ex-President Robert Mugabe in a 2009-2013 unity government.

Obert Gutu, party spokesman, confirmed Tsvangirai's death on Twitter, calling him "a political icon, a humble and tenacious fighter for the creation of a peaceful, stable, democratic and progressive nation state in Zimbabwe".

Last week, Tsvangirai had taken to Twitter to play down speculation that his illness was terminal.

"I have cancer and [am] not feeling too well, but I am stable and the process is under control. ... I am recovering," he wrote on February 6.

Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from Harare, said that people in Zimbabwe's capital were "shocked" at the news of his death.

"A lot of people are saying they are going to miss him," she said.

Who was Morgan Tsvangirai?

A powerful public speaker, Tsvangirai was born in 1952 to a bricklayer father in Buhera, in the southeast of Zimbabwe.

At independence from Britain in 1980, Tsvangirai became branch chairman of the National Mine Workers Union, rising through the ranks to become secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in 1988, a post he relinquished when he formed the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999.

In the 2008 elections he was the main challenger to Mugabe and his ZANU-PF. He managed to win 47 percent of the vote, against Mugabe’s 43 percent, but fell short of the threshold needed to avoid a second round.

Tsvangirai then boycotted the runoff, citing intimidation and harassment of his supporters, handing Mugabe the victory.

His death comes a few months before Zimbabwe is scheduled to hold presidential elections.

Lance Guma, editor of Nehanda Radio, said Tsvangirai's death was "a severe blow to the opposition".

"Finding someone new and trying to build their profile within the country within a space of four months is going to be a mammoth task," he said.

babyphaze07:
The shithole APC party will never tell the president of the shithole country to resign. The shithole suffering continues....

If you have a voters card, then wait and use it.

South Africa's embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned his office with immediate effect.

He made the announcement in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening.

Earlier, Mr Zuma's governing ANC party told him to resign or face a vote of no confidence in parliament on Thursday.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43066443

This President is sleeping in Aso Rock and simply sent for his bootlicker (Gov Ortom) for bedroom talk.
We demand real action and a first hand view by the President.

igbodefender:
So, why didn't FG help?

Medicine after death?

seunmsg:
Why not allow Atiku to defend himself before you write off Unongo's allegation as a big conspiracy? If Atiku is truly the biggest financier of Miyetti Allah, then he owe Nigerians lots of explanation as to why he still finances an organisation that goes about killing Nigerians.

In addition, the current administration should step up their clamp down on the murderous herdsmen. This nonsense has gone on for too long and must stop now.

Are you asking a champion of Fulani herdsmen to "clamp down" on them? Mennn.....that will only happen in your dreams.
Please read,
Nigeria's Buhari orders crackdown on Fulani cattle raiders - BBC News. www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36159583
This same life Patron of Miyetti Allah can not even sympathize with those killed by his people.

Hmmmm!
So PMB a known voice for Miyetti Allah does not sponsor them?
2019 onloading....

RIP

Well articulated thoughts.

Going through Engineering for five years in a purely Engineering institution, I kept wondering at the shabbiness and lack of depth and seriousness attached to the Engineering Training. Though I saw all the Mathematics I thought I will see, there was no real life application of the concepts we were taught.

noobody:
Looks like a left over from wetin hawk chop remain.
Nothing diabolic here bro,move on!!

you just chanced by a vulture's lunch.

The relevant government agencies (Road safety, Federal road maintenancy agency, etc) should be held responsible for this lose of life.
The sane and usual thing to do when a section of road give way or there is a blockage on the road that could lead to accident or incident is to barricade the road and put a diversion sign. simply putting road sign is not enough.

GoroTango:
Log out and don't ever come back. The world bank will give preferential treatment to the war torn north east. If it is your money go and collect it

The World bank and IMF said North and you twist it to mean war torn North-East. We hear you laud and clear.

SEE COWARDS. ARE YOU TIRED OF COLLECTING HAND OUTS FROM POLITICIANS.

RATHER than confront ASUU and the political class that are keeping you where you are, na citizens weh de go about their business you wan disturb?
THINK! THINK!! THINK!!! Wasted generation Please THINK.

agadez007:
35% are Hausas and The remaining percent are Yorubas

Baba Awo must be cringing in his grave right now

Did you read the article? "Unicef estimates that 60% of Nigerian children not attending school live in the north of the country". This however does not mean they are hausas.

More than half the world's children who are not being educated are in Nigeria, the country's government has said.

Acknowledging the scale of the problem the education ministry's permanent secretary Adamu Hussaini said it was "sad to note" that Nigeria had 10.5 million children out of school.

This is the first time senior officials have admitted the size of the problem.

Cultural factors have been blamed but critics point to a lack of money going to publicly funded schools.

The UN's children's agency, Unicef, has been campaigning on this issue as well as a number of other groups.

On a visit to the country last week, education activist Malala Yousafzai met acting president Yemi Osinbajo and asked him to declare what she called "an education state of emergency in Nigeria".

Mr Hussaini said those most affected were girls, street children and the children of nomadic groups and added that economic prosperity can only be achieved with an "inclusive and functional education system".

But BBC Hausa editor Jimeh Saleh says the failure in the education system is due to a lack of government funding, rather than any cultural factors as suggested by the ministry.

"Government funded schools in Nigeria have practically collapsed over the years because of poor funding leaving children from poor homes with nowhere to go but the streets," he says.

Unicef estimates that 60% of Nigerian children not attending school live in the north of the country.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40715305

obailala:
There's just one umbrella, and one person has to hold it. Residual slave mentality is what makes many people think there is something wrong with this picture; people with this paranoid type mentality view and interpret everything as someone trying to enslave the other.

I strongly disagree with you. When two or more persons share an umbrella, they usually tend to stand side by side or converge in towards the middle. This picture however depicts something different. It is just not right.
Many will rush to compare this with Obama but both photographs aren't the same.

This is serious. They should be investigated.

The legacy of the Great Walls of Benin has largely been forgotten. However, it does not change the fact that the Walls of Benin City was the world’s largest man-made earth structure lengthwise, and was hailed as the largest earthwork in the world.

The Walls of Benin greater than the Wall of China

According to Wikipedia, the Benin Walls were ravaged by the British in 1897 during what has come to be called the Punitive expedition. Scattered pieces of the structure remain in Edo, with the vast majority of them being used by the locals for building purposes. What remains of the wall itself continues to be torn down for real estate developments.

African History: 8 Facts about The Great Walls of Benin
1.The Walls of Benin were used as a defense of the historical Benin City, formerly of the now defunct Kingdom of Benin and now the capital of the present-day Edo State of Nigeria.
2.It is considered the largest man-made structure lengthwise and was hailed as the largest earthwork in the world.
3.It enclosed 6,500 km² of community lands. Its length was over 16,000 km of earth boundaries. It was estimated that earliest construction began in 800 AD and continued into the mid-1400s.
4.The Benin Walls were ravaged by the British in 1897 during what has come to be called the Punitive expedition.
5.Scattered pieces of the structure remain in Edo, with the vast majority of them being used by the locals for building purposes. What remains of the wall itself continues to be torn down for real estate developments.
6.The Walls of Benin City was the world’s largest man-made earth structure.
7.In all, they are four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops.
8.They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet.

The Benin Empire was a pre-colonial empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. Its capital was Edo, now known as Benin City. The Benin Empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in the coastal hinterland of West Africa, dating perhaps to the eleventh century CE, until it was annexed by the British Empire in 1897.

InformAfrica | Informing Africans in diaspora and on the continent

 African history, Edo State, Nigeria, Nigeria History, Walls of Benin

http://www.informafrica.com/african-history/african-history-facts-about-the-great-walls-of-benin/

Lie to me.

Hmmm!
Casala don show.

God help you.

ok. Well-done

PROPAGANDA........I am sailing though the Mobil field and can still see operations going on UBIT oilfield belonging to Mobil.
If they blew up Mobil terminal, where is Ubit flowing to.

IDnoble1:
Talk to your brothers avenging for you,pls

See uninformed specimen of Nigerian idiocy. Whoever told you all oil workers are from Niger Delta? Why are they packing out if they are from there? Let PMB solve the issues and leave the people alone. You who advice him to ignore the region will soon discover you ignored it to your own detriment.

What men sow, they reap.
We elected Buhari and his band of dancers. They have made a 360 degree turn on all the things they stood against and just to fan our ego, we come here to argue with ourselves on how right or wrong he is. My countrymen are fantastically gullible, fantastically sentimental and fantastically sectional. Yet the sun never seizes to shine on us all at the same time and darkness falls on us all at the same time. That is the riddle of our times.

I SEE GREEN EYED ENVY HERE. GEJ TOLD US HE WENT TO SCHOOL WITHOUT SHOES AND STILL WAS OUR PRESIDENT. OLAJUMOKE HAS A RIGHT TO SHINE IN LIFE AND EVERYONE WHO CAN NOT HANDLE IT SHOULD JUMP INTO THE LAGOON AND HOPE HE/SHE DROWNS OR ELSE POLICE WILL ARREST YOU FOR ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

See how FREE money from Federal allocation has made most of the Northern State lazy at even generation revenue internally.
Kano with its purported size and large Federal allocation makes only a little above Cross River and Abia with Population one-third of its own.
See table below:

State Rank: ---------: Amount in ₦ ..................... Population .......... No. of LGA
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1: Lagos State: 268,224,782,435 .................... 9,013,534 ............. 20
2: Rivers State: 82,101,298,408 .................... 5,185,400.............. 23
3: Delta State: 40,805,656,911 .................... 4,098,391................25
4: Ogun State: 34,596,446,519 .................... 3,728,098................20
5: Edo State: 19,117,468,369 .................... 3,218,332................18
6: Enugu State: 18,081,014,527 .................... 3,257,298 ..............17
7: Oyo State: 15,663,514,824 .................... 5,591,589 .............33
8: A/Ibom State: 14,791,175,253 ..................... 3,920,208 .............31
9: Anambra State: 14,791,175,253 ..................... 4,182,032 .............21
10: Kano State: 13,611,853,935 ..................... 9,383,682 .........44
11: Cross River State: 13,567,122,507................ .... 2,888,966 ................ 18
12: Abia State: 13,349,444,263 ..................... 2,833,999 ................ 17
13: Kaduna State: 11,536,729,988 ..................... 6,066,562 ................ 23
14: Ondo State: 10,098,000,000 ..................... 3,441,024 .................18
15: Bayelsa State: 8,713,516,526 ..................... 1,703,358 ................ 8
16: Osun State: 8,072,966,446 ..................... 3,423,535 ................ 30
17: Benue State: 7,631,789,841 ..................... 4,219,244 ................ 23
18: Kwara State: 7,178,922,182 ..................... 2,371,089 ................ 16
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19: Plateau State: 6,937,349,802 ................... 3,178,712 ............... 17
20: Kogi State: 6,776,580,756 ................... 3,278,487 ............... 21
21: Sokoto State: 6,224,448,122 ................... 3,696,999 ............... 23
22: Niger State: 5,975,149,921 ................... 3,950,249 ............... 25
23: Katsina State: 5,791,008,741 ................... 5,792,578 ............... 34
24: Imo State: 5,472,581,634 .................. 3,934,899 ............... 27
25: Bauchi State: 5,393,721,996 .................. 4,676,465 ............... 20
26: Jigawa State: 5,081,424,105 .................. 4,348,649 ............... 27
27: Gombe State: 4,784,605,861 .................. 2,353,879 ............... 11
28: Adamawa State: 4,451,736,117 .................. 3,168,101 ............... 21
29: Nasarawa State: 4,281,701,806 .................. 1,863,275 ............... 13
30: Taraba State: 4,155,053,816 .................. 2,300,736 ............... 16
31: Kebbi State: 3,592,406,108 .................. 3,238,628 ............... 21
32: Borno State: 3,530,261,222 .................. 4,151,193 ............... 27
33: Ekiti State: 3,297,707,703 .................. 2,384,212 ............... 16
34: Zamfara State: 2,741,632,541 .................. 3,259,846 ............... 14
35: Yobe State: 2,251,330,427 .................. 2,321,591 ............... 17
36: Ebonyi State: No Data for 2015 ................. 2,173,501 ............... 13
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Don't disturb yourselves with every trash that comes out of the mouth of every cock whether he be white, black or whatever color.
White ladies still get married to migrant men who hardly can afford to feed themselves and are only interested in using them to gain residence status. Should all white ladies be put in a box for this reason. Like our people will say, "every shoe get size."

Vanquay:
Are you fvcking kidding me??
Nigerian-Americans hate him
Nigerian immigrants loathe him
Any individual with Nigerian Blood despises him

Still heard my dad smiling to the bank, apparently $$$ was 280 naira and his village people are loving it for this

If Jonathan was Clueless as an individual, Buhari will destroy this country as a Tyrant

Damn Nigerians are *INSERT INSULT* How the fvck do you vote corrupt leaders in a row?

Haven't you noticed that your hate isn't going anywhere?
Wake up! GEJ is not your problem.

Akuna matata.
You don't expect to sow yam and reap cocoa yam.
He who sows the wind will reap the whirl wind.