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...

ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT DIRECTS CLOSURE OF MARKETS FOR 14 DAYS WITH EFFECT FROM MONDAY,30TH OF MARCH,2020.{PHOTO}.#PRESS RELEASE.

GOVERNOR WILLY OBIANO OF ANAMBRA STATE – News in Africa
      As part of ongoing measures by Anambra state government to stop the spread of Coronavirus, ALL markets in Anambra state will be closed ‪from Monday, 30th March, 2020‬ for 14 days.
Only businesses selling food items and medicines are authorised to stay open during the closure. Such businesses should however observe social distance protocols and other coronavirus health advisory already in place in Anambra state.
During the 14-day period also, traders should stay at home and not move about.
This directive will be reviewed at the end of the 14-day period and further directives will be communicated.
The executive and members of Anambra State Market Traders Association (ASMATA), executive and members of various market associations, market men and women are hereby directed to strictly comply with this directive.
Members of Anambra state Covid-19 Task Force, the police and other security agencies should strictly enforce this directive.
This is in the best interest of all of us. Please help us to fight this Pandemic.
Announcer
Professor Solo Chukwulobelu
Secretary to Anambra State Government
Thursday, 26th March, 2020.
GOVERNOR WILLY OBIANO OF ANAMBRA STATE – News in Africa

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