The 2021–2025 National Development Plan (NDP), which aimed to lift 35 million people out of poverty and create 21 million full-time jobs by 2025, has joined the long list of the country’s failed economic blueprints. Instead of reducing poverty, the plan has seen an additional 44 million Nigerians plunged into extreme poverty. In 2021, the World Bank said 85 million Nigerians lived below the international poverty line of $1.90 per person per day. By October 2024, the institution reported again that 129 million Nigerians now live below the pov