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Poverty Is Not a Crime: Why Nigeria Must Stop Punishing the Poor  

Oluwayomi Owoseye of Initiatives for Social Inclusion and Grassroots Literacy (ISGIL) writes....   When the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, declared that “poverty is not an excuse”…

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