Article 3TYYT 'I'm tired of the suffering': how poverty-stricken families struggle to survive in Nigeria | Isaac Linus

'I'm tired of the suffering': how poverty-stricken families struggle to survive in Nigeria | Isaac Linus

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Isaac Linus in Abuja
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Families living on 1.50 a day or less tell of the hardships of life in the oil-rich nation, which now has the greatest concentration of extreme poverty

Nkechi John, 39, lives in a single room with her four children and husband, who is a welder. Their daily lives are fairly typical of people in poverty in Nigeria, which according to the Brookings Institution now has the world's greatest number of extreme poor.

"Life is tough and everybody is complaining," she says. "I used to sell akara [bean cake]. I could make around 1,000-1,200 naira [2-2.50] profit every day, but now I can't even make 400 naira. People don't have money to buy it because there are no jobs.

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