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By Dan Amor Recently, there emerged two very disturbing reports, each dealing with chronic poverty in Africa vis-a-vis Nigeria , that are very unsettling. One is from the Brookings Institution, a Washington DC-based Economic think-tank. Its report titled: "The Start of A New Poverty Narrative" , was specifically based on the work of three experts who are associated with the "World Poverty Clock" , an Economic Study Group launched in 2017, to track trends in poverty reduction across the world.  The kennel of the report is that Nigeria had overtaken India as the country with the largest number of extreme poor in the world, to be seconded only by the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. What this means is that Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world. The other one is a damning document entitled, "Report Card on World Social Progress". Released also in the United States of America by the International Society for Life Quality Studies, the report...

By   Yakubu Mohammed Her birth may not have been miraculous. At least not as miraculous as the birth of Jesus Christ, the story of which event is both elegantly and breathtakingly narrated in the Qur’an and the Bible. Something, neither divine nor spectacularly prophetic, must have decided her parents to christen her Miracle, this Edo State current wonder. Miracle Johnson is currently in the news. But not for any divine reason or some earth shaking accomplishments. On July 2, this year, God blessed her with a bouncing baby girl, which she appropriately named Greatness. On the authority of Punch Metro , the sizzling section of the Punch newspaper which is devoted to the stories of the bizarre bordering almost on the incredulity, this Miracle of a mother took her bouncing six-week old child to an orphanage in Anambra State where, according to the police, she sold her off for the not-so-princely sum of N200,000 ( two hundred thousand).   Apparently short of words to descri...