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‎FACT CHECK: Do 140m Nigerians Live In Poverty As Peter Obi...








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‎Claim ‎ ‎“Today we stand before the world as a nation with an extraordinarily large population living in poverty and severe hardship – over 140 million.” ‎ ‎Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), made the claim in his Independence Day address as Nigeria marked its 66th anniversary, on Thursday. ‎ ‎Obi also cited other indicators of hardship, saying Nigeria had “over 18 million” out-of-school children, that “over 40 million Nigerians will be in extreme hunger

‎Recent monetary-poverty estimates from the World Bank and PwC put the number of Nigerians living below a poverty line at around or above 140 million, depending on the year, methodology and projection used. ‎ ‎Other parts of Obi’s assessment are also supported to varying degrees. UNICEF’s figures put the number of primary and junior-secondary-age children out of school at about 18.3 million, while UN humanitarian projections show nearly 35 million Nigerians facing acute food insecurity during th

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