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Business● Low2h ago · Nov 3, 2026, 5:47 PM

Nigeria needs 10% growth to reduce poverty — Peterside

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Vanguard Nigeria · Sub-Saharan Africa

By Favour Ulebor, Abuja Businessman and former Nigerian Stock Exchange chairman, Atedo Peterside, has said Nigeria’s economic growth rate of about four per cent is inadequate to generate the jobs and investment needed to lift citizens out of poverty, insisting that the country must target annual growth of 10 per cent. Peterside spoke on Tuesday […] The post Nigeria needs 10% growth to reduce poverty — Peterside appeared first on Vanguard News.

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