The Federal Government is promising to pull 50 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next 42 months.
This is coming from the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu.
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“We are drawing out a strategy to be able to get 50 million persons out of poverty within 42 months. Now, that is not just going to be only the job of my ministry to do. There is going to be an inter-sectorial collaboration with other ministries, for instance, the Ministry of Trade and Industries. Of course, they have the SMEs and the president has provided some loans for persons doing small little businesses across the nation,” she said on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“Government is very intentional. President Bola Tinubu is someone who cares about the poor and the vulnerable in the society. He does all within his power to ensure that the pain is taken off from Nigerians.
“There are different strategies. We are working with international partners and the World Bank. What is at the back of our mind is that 50 million people would be pulled out of poverty in 42 months.”
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