play_arrow
Welcome to Online Radio
The Leading Lifestyle Internet Radio
play_arrow
Music 24/7 - Africana
Online Radio
play_arrow
Music 24/7 - International
Online Radio
play_arrow
Music 24/7 - Gospel
Online Radio
play_arrow
Music 24/7 - Latin America
Online Radio
play_arrow
Talk Shows - Stay Updated
Online Radio
play_arrow
Pillars and Plants - Gospel
Online Radio
play_arrow
Audio Stories - A new movie experience
Online Radio
The World Bank has project that the number of poor people in Nigeria will be on the rise by 20 million by 2022.
According to the bank’s Nigeria Development Update (NDU), the country could enter its deepest recession since the 1980s and an average Nigerian may experience a setback of decades of economic growth.
The bank’s country director for Nigeria, Shubham Chaudhuri said “Nigeria is at a critical historical juncture, with a choice to make. Nigeria can choose to break decisively from business-as-usual, and rise to its considerable potential by sustaining the bold reforms that have been taken thus far and going even further and with an even greater sense of urgency to promote faster and more inclusive economic growth.”
Figures from the 2019 poverty and inequality in Nigeria report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reveals that 40 percent of the total population, or almost 83 million Nigerians, live below the poverty line of N137,430 per year.
The World Bank in its update warned that the economy may shrink up to 4 percent in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and weak oil prices.
It noted that food insecurity has escalated while “economic precarity is on the rise because unemployed workers have migrated to the low-productivity agricultural sector.”
Marco Hernandez, World Bank’s lead economist for Nigeria, said: “Nigeria can build on its reform momentum to contain the spread of COVID-19, stimulate the economy, and enable the private sector to be the engine of growth and job creation. It can also redirect public spending from subsidies that benefit the rich towards investments in Nigeria’s people and youth in particular, and lay foundations for a strong recovery to help make progress towards lifting 100 million people out of poverty.”
The bank recommended that the Nigerian government persist in managing the domestic spread of COVID-19 until a vaccine is available for distribution, enhancing macroeconomic management to boost investor confidence, as well as safeguarding and mobilizing revenues.
It also advised that national revenue should be earmarked for critical development expenditures, encouraging economic activity, providing relief items and access to basic services in rural communities.
Religious leaders have been accused by the Federal Government on Thursday of sabotaging the national response in containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country by holding large […]
Post comments (0)