{"id":19360,"date":"2018-06-25T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19360"},"modified":"2018-06-25T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:54:27","slug":"extreme-poverty-nigeria-overtakes-india-despite-oil-wealth-who-do-we-blame-jonathan-or-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19360","title":{"rendered":"EXTREME POVERTY: NIGERIA OVERTAKES INDIA DESPITE OIL WEALTH. WHO DO WE BLAME, JONATHAN OR BUHARI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigeria has now taken over India as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people, a report by Brookings Institution has shown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before now, India used to hold the position with a population of 1.324 billion people as against Nigeria\u2019s 200 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the number of Nigerians in extreme poverty increases by six people every minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to our projections, Nigeria has already overtaken India as the country with the largest number of extreme poor in early 2018, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo could soon take over the number 2 spot,\u201d <strong>The report said<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16527&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of May 2018, our trajectories suggest that Nigeria had about 87 million people in extreme poverty, compared with India\u2019s 73 million. What is more, extreme poverty in Nigeria is growing by six people every minute, while poverty in India continues to fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, by the end of 2018 in Africa as a whole, there will probably be about 3.2 million more people living in extreme poverty than there is today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfricans account for about two-thirds of the world\u2019s extreme poor and that If current trends persist, Africa will account for nine-tenths by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFourteen out of 18 countries in the world\u2014where the number of extreme poor is rising\u2014are in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, the International Monetary Fund had said\u00a0<strong>Nigerians are getting poorer<\/strong>\u00a0saying there is a need for coherent and comprehensive economic reforms.(TheCable)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19311\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has now taken over India as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people, a report by Brookings Institution has shown. Before now, India used to hold the position with a population of 1.324 billion people as against Nigeria\u2019s 200 million. According to the report, the number of Nigerians in extreme poverty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[4812],"class_list":["post-19360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brookings-institution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/POVERTY-2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-52g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19364,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360\/revisions\/19364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}