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Nigeria: Fact-Checking Peter Obi's Claim of More Than 140 Million Nigerians Living in Poverty

AllAfrica
Published 5 Oct 2026, 12:53 pm·2 d ago·1 min read
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[Daily Trust] Peter Obi says more than 140 million Nigerians are living in poverty and severe hardship. But what do the available figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, World Bank, UNICEF, UN and WHO actually show?

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