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 COMMISSIONER PARTNERS THE POLICE IN APPREHENDING MAN WHO BRUTALLY BEAT UP LATE BOSS'S SISTER. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.


 OBINABO PARTNERS THE POLICE IN APPREHENDING MAN WHO BRUTALLY BEAT UP LATE BOSS'S SISTER



By Chidinma Ikeanyionwu


Anambra State Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Hon Ify Obinabo has collaborated with the Anambra State Police command in apprehending one Ikechukwu Okigbo for allegedly beating up Mrs Joy Nwabuobi in Awka.


According to the victim, Mrs Nwabuobi, Mr Okigbo was her late brother's driver, but the issue  happened after she asked him to repark the car because of the constant complaints by the tenants.


She also said that being the caretaker of the compound, she quietly urged Mr Okigbo, but unfortunately, the whole situation took a different turn when the middle-aged man pounced on her and left her with injuries.


Reacting to the news, Hon Obinabo revealed that she took action immediately, and she was informed by partnering the police in arresting the culprit.


The Women Affairs Commissioner noted that she won't relant until justice is served and warned other intending perpetrators to desist from laying their hands on women just because they can as the government of Prof Chukwuma Soludo has zero tolerance for such inhumane and dastardly act.

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