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Revealed: 1.1 Million Nigerians Slip Into Extreme Poverty In Just Four Months
Posted by Samuel on Wed 31st Oct, 2018 - tori.ngAs many as 1.1 million Nigerians have reportedly slipped into extreme poverty in the space of just four months.
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TheCable reports that over 1.1 million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty in just four months.
This has brought the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty — or below $1.90 a 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.
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