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Financing for Development in Nigeria

Report Insights Ahead of FfD4 (2025)Nigeria's path toward sustainable development is hindered by deep structural and fiscal challenges, despite global and regional commitments to development finance…

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…

Taker Not Makers

Takers Not Makers - Report

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now and here's why.

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…

Celsa Nable is a member of a women’s group that launched a solar project on Hilabaan Island, in the Philippines

THE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION NEEDS TO BE FAST – BUT IT MUST ALSO BE FAIR

Dante Dalabajan | Ruth Mayne

Dante Dalabajan and Ruth Mayne introduce a new Oxfam research report – produced by staff and partners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, US and Europe. The paper investigates the…

Oxfam's Hunger Statistics for Africa

Over 20 million more people hungry in Africa’s “year of nutrition”

Despite promises, nearly three-quarters of African governments reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms. In the 12 months that African leaders vowed to improve…

Ten richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall

Abuja, January 17, 2022 - New billionaire minted every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds The world’s ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes…

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