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Extreme poverty is on the rise in Africa’s most populous country

By Reuters
18 Jan 2019 | 5:26 am | 3m 28s

Poverty is widespread in Nigeria despite decades of high oil revenues. In June 2018, the country overtook India in a global extreme poverty ranking.

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