Report: Nigeria Overtakes India as World’s Poverty Capital Now has largest number of extremely poor persons Obinna Chima Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of extreme poor as of 2018, a report
by the Washington-based Brookings Institution has stated. The report titled, ‘The Start of a New Poverty Narrative,’ obtained on the institution’s
website, pointed out that the Democratic Republic of the Congo could soon take over the number two spot. It said, “At the end of May 2018, our trajectories
suggest that Nigeria had about 87 million people in extreme poverty, compared with India’s 73 million. What is more, extreme poverty in Nigeria is growing by six
people every minute, while poverty in India continues to fall. “In fact, by the end of 2018 in Africa as a whole, there will probably be about 3.2
million more people living in extreme poverty than there are today. Already, Africans account for about two-thirds Continued on page 8
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Buhari: Politicians Taking Advantage of Killings Osinbajo visits Plateau, Miyetti Allah explains attacks Police, Army deploy more special forces Presidential comment insensitive, says PDP CAN cries to UN, AU, Commonwealth for help Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Omololu Ogunmade, Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Paul Obi, Senator Iroegbu in Abuja and Seriki Adinoyi in Jos Human lives have become increasingly cheap in Nigeria,
and politicians are taking advantage of the insecurity situation in the country to position themselves, President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday. Continued on page 6
…Says Restructuring Advocates Have Personal Agenda Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja maintained his stance on calls for the restructuring of the country, insisting that those making the calls had personal agenda for their advocacy. The president who made the comment while receiving a group of traditional rulers from Urhobo ethnic group in Delta State, said such agenda being pushed by advocates of restructuring could only be accommodated by the constitution.
Spokesman of the group, Moses Tiger, had demanded the restructuring of the country, appointment of an Urhobo as a minister, boundary adjustment and investigation of the sale of the land given by an Urhobo community to the military, location of a university in their territory as well as federal government investment in agriculture. Responding, Buhari who described the demand for boundary adjustment as a Continued on page 6
MEETING WITH THE DIASPORA… L-R: President Muhammadu Buhari, Associate Professor of Sheffield Hallam University, Salihu Ibrahim-Dasuki, and an economist, Mr Aliyu Abubakar-Audu, during a courtesy visit by members of UK-Africa, a group of young professionals in the Diaspora, in Abuja… yesterday