[Thisday] Only a Third of Nigerians are Poor, Says World Bank

Going by the statistics released to journalists yesterday in Abuja by the  World Bank, only 55.9 million Nigerians (about 33.1 per cent of the country's population put at 169 million)  are living below the acceptable  poverty level, a significant improvement from the figure released  last February by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which put the poverty level at 112.519 million (62.6 per cent). The World Bank also predicted a 7.4 per cent growth rate in the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Click for more

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