The face of poverty in Nigeria

Nigeria is home to the largest number of people living in extreme poverty globally

It is 2:00 pm in the Northern Nigeria city of Sokoto and an army of middle-aged children dotted a stretch of the popular Kano Road like stars on a night sky. They clutched bright coloured plastic bowls in their hands and not books or a school bag like you would see most of their peers around the

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