Poverty

Economy

Why NBS’s Data on Labour, Poverty Must Reflect Nigeria’s Reality in 2024

Under the NBS’s new system, ’employed’ individuals are anyone in the working-age population who engage in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit… Government uses these types of metrics to determine what to tax and who to tax, and the data processing unit might just be laying a foundation for the government to trap the poor struggling working class into taxation.

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