The Nigerian economy is a series of paradoxes. In the first place, we are a very wealthy nation in terms of natural resource endowment. Yet, we are the poverty capital of the world. In 2017, Nigeria overtook India as the world capital of poverty with some 97 million (48 percent of total population)
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