Old-Age Poverty

T hirty years ago Siddharth Dube, a writer, visited a small village in northern India near the site of a historic peasants’ revolt. He found plenty that remained enraging: mud huts, primitive ploughs, “barefoot old men” and “bone-thin children”. One older villager, Ram Dass, recalled the bitter deprivation of his…

One in five Egyptians faces multidimensional poverty, according to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a data-driven framework recently adopted by Egypt to understand and tackle human living conditions. The MPI, developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), assesses poverty…

APC National Chairman Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, on Tuesday, received the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, HE. Yu Dunhai, at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja The People’s Republic of China, on Tuesday, visited the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and renewed…

Documents seized in FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago returned to Trump, White House says Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, told reporters traveling with Trump to Florida on Friday that classified documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago in 2022 had been returned to Trump and were loaded on to…

The AWP Network has partnered with an Abuja-based athletic group, Run Club Abuja to provide free sanitary pads and personal supplies to 500 underprivileged girls in select public secondary schools in Abuja enough to last each girl for about six (6) months. This event marks the beginning of a powerful…

Adokiye Tombomieye at the public lecture and Inauguration Ceremony of Engr. Amalate Ann Jonathan, as the 4th Chairman and Executive Committee Member of the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria. A former Executive Vice President (Upstream) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Adokiye Tombomieye has said that…

Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has said that the ongoing social interventions in some states do not reach the intended beneficiaries who are the poor and vulnerable members of the society. The Governor further said that the fact that the country’s poverty index has been increasing in spite of…

Vice President Kashim Shettima has urged the North East Development Commission (NEDC) and the Federal Ministry of Regional Development to tackle poverty in the North-east through investments in education. Shettima made the call Friday during a meeting with NEDC management at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where they briefed him on…

NJEMANZE EMMANUEL The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) reaffirms it’s readiness to revitalise  the Cooperative Sector to join drive economic growth, promote social cohesion, enhance food security and reduction of poverty in Nigeria. The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Dr. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi…

February 14, 2025 February 14, 2025 By Stella Odueme The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) has reaffirmed its readiness to revitalize the Cooperative Sector as it would drive economic growth, promote social cohesion, enhance food security as well as reduce poverty in Nigeria. Speaking during the Technical…