Nigeria has a high poverty rate – what this has to do with ethnic conflicts

By Tolu Olarewaju, Economist and Lecturer in Management, Keele University; University of Lancashire

Nigeria has endured decades of violent insurgencies and ranks 6th on the 2025 Global Terrorism Index. Numerous people have been killed and millions displaced. The number of casualties from terrorist attacks in 2025 can be seen in both the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Nigeria…

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~	What I’ve learned from studying the wild pigeon

~	Iran protests have put the country’s political system on trial

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