The Austria-based World Poverty Clock says 93.8 million Nigerians, as of June 2019, suffer from extreme poverty. The World Population Prospects estimates that though 6,398 people die daily, 20,496 are born, approximately a net increase of almost 14,000 per day. At the current birth rate, Nigeria is on course to be the fifth largest country by 2030 with a population of 262 million. The McKinsey Global Report 2018 states that China is the top nation in this worldwide, lifting 713 million out of poverty between 1990 and 2013. The persistence of rural poverty must end.

Source: Punch June 25, 2019 23:14 UTC