World Bank report: BMO blames PDP for Nigeria’s poverty level
the level the country sank in the not too distant past, under a succession of clueless, unfocussed and uncaring governments.
The group emphasized that this was the period the Peoples Democratic Party was in power at the centre, led the National Assembly, as well as a majority of the States of the Federation. “All these were before the Buhari administration’s social welfare initiatives, including the Conditional Cash Transfer, kicked off in 2016.
“But even before the release of the report in January, President Muhammadu Buhari had spoken of his readiness to lay the framework for 100 million poor people to be lifted out of poverty in the next ten years,” it added. “This is the equivalent of the population of some African countries and we see it as a game-changer among a number of pro-poor initiatives of the administration which also include the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme that has now covered 33 states and only recently launched in the Federal Capital Territory
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