Nigeria: 80 Million Citizens Are Poor - World Bank Director

No fewer than 80 million Nigerians have been declared poor with low standard of living. Dr. Mark Tomlinson, the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria made the disclosure at a national workshop on the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy in Abuja. He said this proportion of poverty in the country had snowballed over the last two decades when the country received over $300 million from the sale of oil and gas.