The poor execution of the programme and incoherence in the compilation of the NSR has made many Nigerians draw the conclusion that the programme got off on the wrong foot, not leaving out the fact that many of them could not point at any beneficiary within their neighborhoods.
Living on the fringe: Sad sorry world of Sokoto’s Almajiri
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), last year, released the “2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria” report, which highlights that 40 percent of the total population, or almost 83 million people, live below the country’s poverty line of 137,430 naira ($381.75) per year.