MORE NIGERIANS EXPECTED TO FALL INTO POVERTY BY 2027 – WORLD BANK. (PHOTO).

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 More Nigerians expected to fall into poverty by 2027 – World Bank Despite Nigeria’s resources-rich status, more of the county’s citizens are expected to sink into poverty by 2027, the World Bank Group has said. This is contained in the World Bank’s Africa Pulse report released at the ongoing Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington DC, the United States. The report noted that sub-Saharan Africa has the highest extreme poverty rate globally, with a large share of the poor concentrated in a few countries. According to the Bretton Woods institution, about 80 percent of the world’s estimated 695 million extreme poor resided in the region in 2024, compared to 8 percent in South Asia, 2 percent in East Asia and the Pacific, 5 percent in the Middle East and North Africa, and 3 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Within Sub-Saharan Africa, half of the 560 million extreme poor in 2024 resided in four countries,” the report highlight...

COURT CONVICTS NSCDC OFFICER FOR JOB SCAM TODAY.{PHOTOS}.

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      The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today, December 12, 2017 secured the conviction of one Joshua Dan-Daura, a Deputy Suprintendent in the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps who was arraigned by the Commission for job scam before honourable Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of the Kano State High Court.
The convict was arraigned by the Commission on December 22, 2016 for allegedly defrauding the complainant the sum of N450,000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira Only) under the pretext of securing job for him.Upon arraignment, the convict pleaded not guilty which compelled the prosecution counsel Musa Isah to proceed into trial that lasted one year.In her judgment today, Justice Aboki found the accused person guilty to the one count he was charged with and convicted him as prayed by the prosecution counsel. After listening to the alocutos from the defence counsel, Amos Ango for mercy on behalf of the convict, Justice Aboki subsequently sentenced the convict to 9 months imprisonment with option of N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira Only) fine.The convict was also ordered to restitute the sum of N370,000 to the complainant or spend 18 additional month in prison if he defaulted.
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