Nigerian Poverty Climbs as Economy Fails to Create More Jobs
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Poverty in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, rose in the seven years through 2010 as faster economic growth failed to create enough jobs.
The number of Nigerians living on less than 1 dollar a day rose to 61.2 percent in 2010 from 51.6 percent in 2004, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement released in the capital, Abuja, today.