{
  "id": 11987929,
  "title": "Fact-Checking Peter Obi’s Claim of More Than 140 Million Nigerians Living in Poverty.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/fact-checking-peter-obis-claim-of-more-than-140-million-nigerians",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-04T18:32:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/fact-checking-peter-obis-claim-of-more-than-140-million-nigerians-living-in-poverty/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Peter Obi says more than 140 million Nigerians are living in poverty and severe hardship. But what do the available figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, World Bank, UNICEF, UN and WHO actually show? This video fact checks the claim by examining Nigeria’s poverty levels, food insecurity, out of school children, drug use and […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}