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Poverty by the Numbers: Why Nigeria Disagrees with the World Bank’s 139 Million Estimate
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The Presidency has dismissed the latest World Bank report estimating that 139 million Nigerians live in poverty, describing the figure as “unrealistic” and disconnected from the country’s economic realities. President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, stated via his official X handle on Thursday that the World Bank’s poverty figures […]
