The governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, says poverty, unemployment, hopelessness and lack of education are the major reasons insecurity is festering in the Northwestern part of the country Sani, who was a guest on a live television programme monitored by Ekweanaedo said that the issue of banditry and kidnapping in the North-west is different…
A renowned family medicine consultant and fistula surgeon, Professor Sunday Lengmang, has linked the alarming prevalence of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, VVF, to poverty. Lengmang, serving as the Project Director of the Evangel VVF Center at Bingham University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Plateau State, said this in an interview with journalists in Taraba State. Asserting that poverty…
A nongovernmental Organisation The Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) has reiterated the position of the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Economic Planning that the private sector is critical to driving the economic growth and overall development of Nigeria. The organization stressed the need for sustained partnership with the private sector to drive the development…
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, yesterday said the number of Nigerians (84 million) living in poverty is unacceptable to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu The situation makes ending poverty a priority for the Administration, he added. The minister hopes the N25,000 conditional cash transfer to 15 million households, which…
Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the last presidential election Mr. Peter Obi, said the high rate of poverty in the country is avoidable with good and focused leadership. Obi in a message to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, stated that no nation can develop with more than half of its…
