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Abuja \u2014 Former Edo State Governor, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has emphasized that Nigeria’s wealth alone cannot eradicate poverty, highlighting the need for collective action to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n
He made this statement while chairing the 31st Annual Lift Above Poverty Organization Development Forum in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Nigeria faces alarming poverty statistics: 40.1% of the population lives below the poverty line, with 29% (63 million people) in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $1.90 per…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Abuja \u2014 Former Edo State Governor, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has emphasized that Nigeria’s wealth alone cannot eradicate poverty, highlighting the need for collective action to tackle the issue. He made this statement while chairing the 31st Annual Lift Above Poverty Organization Development Forum in Abuja on Thursday. Nigeria faces alarming poverty statistics: 40.1% of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11963,6913,18577,5941,257,4687,393,49824,7121,254],"class_list":["post-183286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agric","tag-break","tag-cycle","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-odigieoyegun","tag-poverty","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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