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Nigeria Calls for Bold Global Action and Domestic Reform Ahead of UN Financing for Development Conference

Nigeria Urges Global Financial Reform and Domestic Action Ahead of UN FfD4 ConferenceAbuja, Nigeria – May 13, 2025 – As the global community prepares for the 4th International Conference on Financing…

Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, three times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely reduced since 1990

A staggering 60% of billionaire wealth in Nigeria is derived from inheritance, monopoly power, or crony connections, perpetuating a system of economic inequality. This unmerited wealth concentration…

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Climate crisis meets debt crisis: Nigeria faces unmanageable burden as climate funds fall short

New report uncovers Nigeria’s climate finance gap, rising debt, and calls for urgent action on funding reform

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Social bomb in Nigeria: 99% of the wealthiest evade or avoid paying tax while millions go hungry - Press Release

Oxfam new report, Inequality and Wealth Disparity in Nigeria: Trends and Drivers

Seven richest Africans have more wealth than the poorest half of the continent’s population.

Africa's richest 1 percent own nearly half of the continent's total financial wealth.A tax of up to 5 percent on Africa’s super-rich could generate an annual amount of $11.9 billion, nearly enough to…

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FAIR4ALL Media Colloquium and Exhibition Highlights Progress Towards a More Equitable Society

On September 5, 2023, the highly anticipated Fiscal Accountability for Inequality Reduction (FAIR4ALL) Media Colloquium and Exhibition took place in Abuja. The event, led by Oxfam in Nigeria and…

A cross section of dignitaries during the Ceremonial Launch of CCDP project in Yola.

OXFAM Partners Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to improve social cohesion in Michika LGA of Adamawa State.

Oxfam in Nigeria, an international NGO working to achieve a Nigeria without inequality and poverty, where every voice counts, has launched an innovative 8-month intervention in Adamawa State. The…

Vulnerable people being bypassed or bankrupted as rich countries pour development billions into Africa’s private healthcare.

Investments of taxpayers’ money into dodgy deals, profiteering and exploitation, health scandals and human rights abuses —all with little or no accountability. This includes private hospitals…

Top CEOs got a real-term 9% pay rise in 2022 while workers worldwide took a 3% pay cut

Top CEOs got a real-term 9% pay rise in 2022 while workers worldwide took a 3% pay cut

Workers on average worked six days "for free” last year because their wages lagged behind inflation —while real pay for top executives in India, the UK, US and South Africa jumped 9 percent (16…

Agenda for Incoming Nigeria Government

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with an estimated population of 213.4 million, which is equivalent to the combined population of the rest 15 West African countries put together.…