The Naija Times Journalism Foundation (NTJF), the nonprofit branch of Naija Times, an online newspaper, has emphasised the need for robust media oversight to ensure transparency and accountability in the utilisation of the N5 billion per state and the FCT…
LCCI: High Inflation may hurt productivity, raise poverty figures
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has warned that sustained high inflation rate in the Nigerian economy might further constrain production of goods and services and lead to a steeper rise in poverty figures in the country. It…
Sapa, live and direct in naija — Gbubemi Atimomo
Reflections on the state of poverty in Nigeria I watched a video on Instagram posted by a foundation that had gone to distribute grinding machines to women as part of their benevolence activities. The aim was to empower the women…
G20 summit: Aid groups decry slow progress in fight against hunger, poverty
Aid organisations on Wednesday criticized G20 states for making insufficient progress on pledges to combat hunger and poverty in developing countries. Among other things, G20 members including Germany were criticised for failing to do more with so-called special drawing rights,…
Ukraine war pushed 4m children into poverty, says UNICEF
The war in Ukraine and rising inflation has pushed an addition four million children across eastern Europe and Central Asia into poverty. The United Nations Children’s agency UNICEF said in a report released on Monday. The figure, representing a 19…
Man sells wife and son for N2million: Let’s not mistake poverty for reason to act like animals
My dad has a saying I wished at some point he would stop telling us his kids, “you can’t say because you are hungry go picking food from the dustbin.” He used this to illustrate to us that, no matter…
Pandemic pushes millions in Philippines into poverty
Close to four million people in the Philippines became poor in the first half of the year due to pandemic-induced lockdown measures that dried up jobs and reduced domestic demand, government officials said on Friday (Dec 17). Poverty incidence in…
Before Ali Baba and Okey Bakassi there was John Chukwu – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
I should have been a comedian. Poetry is poverty. Comedy is cash. I have been around long enough to know the gnashing of teeth that goes with bearing the toga of Poor Poet. Along the line I have seen with…
My sister, there is poverty and then there is bad parenting – Peju Akande
I saw the story in the Punch newspapers, headlined- Lagos pastor arrested for allegedly raping nine-year-old. As a mother of many daughters, it irks me every time I see headlines like this. Upon reading, I discovered the rape had been…
Like Esau who sold his birthright, this couple sold their soul for rent
I reported my neighbor to the police because I saw them colluding with our landlord to abuse their 14 year old daughter. We live in Makoko. Our house is a face-me- I -face-you. There are six rooms on each side…