The number of persons living below the poverty line of--$1.9 a day-- in Nigeria stood at 82.9 million in 2019, state-funded agency, National Bureau of Statistics said. Africa's largest economy which also holds the mantle of being the most populous nation in the continent, recorded a poverty rate
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