In Nigeria’s villages and farmlands, where red dust rises from rutted roads and children walk miles to reach half-finished schools, poverty is no longer just a statistic—it is a system. Today, 75.5% of rural Nigerians live below the poverty line. That figure is more than a national embarrassment
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