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The number of extremely poor Nigerians has risen to 91.6 million, according to the World Poverty Clock.<\/p>\n

This implies that virtually half of Nigeria\u2019s population now lives in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n

The World Poverty Clock had named Nigeria the poverty capital of the world last June when it revealed that Nigeria had 87 million people living in poverty.<\/p>\n

The latest figure shows that an additional four million Nigerians have since fallen under the poverty line.<\/p>\n

The report added that six Nigerians become poor every minute.The World Poverty Clock is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally.<\/p>\n

It uses publicly available data on income distribution, production, and consumption provided by various international organisations, most notably the United Nations, World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>

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According to the World Poverty Clock, which was created by Vienna-based World Data Lab, 91.16 million Nigerians were living below a dollar a day as of February 13, 2019.<\/p>\n

The World Bank said a person can be said to be living in extreme poverty if they live below the poverty line of $1.90 which translates to N693.5 per day.<\/p>\n

The President Muhammadu Buhari government had last year rejected the report, insisting that it had created jobs especially in the area of agriculture, and reduced poverty.<\/p>\n

However, British Prime Minister, Theresa May, reiterated the statistics during her visit to Nigeria last<\/p>\n

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