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Charles Dillibe Ejiofor Onyeama (6 January 1951 – 10 November 2022) was a Nigerian author and publisher. [2] [3] [4] In 1969, he became the first black person to finish his studies at Eton College in England. [5]
The lower poverty line is ₦197.71 per person annually, which is one-third of the mean value of consumption. If you fall under the lower poverty line you are considered extremely poor, while if you fall under the upper poverty line are considered moderately poor.Thus defined, the poverty line is less than the minimum wage of labor workers in 1985.
A Nigerian man who was indicted in connection with the "sextortion" of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide has been extradited to the U.S. to face prosecution, the Justice Department said ...
Poor leadership and corruption has been identified by another study as another factor leading to brain drain. It found that Nigerian students have interests in travelling to developed societies after completion of their study. Other causes of brain drain identified include: [9] Mass unemployment; Poor salaries; Poor working conditions; Mass poverty
Nigeria’s new President Bola Tinubu has announced his government's plan to pay $10 a month to poor households to ease the growing hardship caused by the scrapping of subsidies on gasoline. In a ...
The four young men responsible for the 1993 Nigerian Airways hijack were Richard Ogunderu, 19, and Kabir Adenuga, Benneth Oluwadaisi and Kenny Rasaq-Lawal, who were all in their early 20s ...
In addition to the chiefs, Nigerian society was composed of both free and enslaved individuals that were ranked beneath them. Social mobility was largely static, though rising through the ranks (from slave to free person, and from free person to chief) was technically possible in many tribes for much of the country's pre-colonial history.
Victor Nnamdi Okafor "Ezego" // ⓘ (25 December 1964 – 25 December 1999), predominantly known by his ruler title Ezego [1] (which means "King Of Money" in English), was an opulent Nigerian businessman who reportedly engaged in diabolical means [2] in order to amass wealth. [3] He died on 25 December 1999 at the age of 35 under bizarre ...