ENI – Church leaders in Nigeria say urgent government action is needed to tackle poverty in the West African nation that was ranked 158th out of 177 countries in the human development index of the United Nations Development Programme.
“Nigeria is blessed with abundant oil wealth, but her people are suffering in the midst of plenty,” the Anglican bishop of Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, Adebayo Akinde, said in an interview.
Statistics from the Central Bank of Nigeria indicate that about 54 percent of the nation's 140 million people live in poverty, many living on less than one US dollar a day.
