Extreme Poverty in Nigeria Keeps Me Awake at Night, Says Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Tuesday said the problem of extreme poverty in Nigeria keeps him awake at night. “I think what keeps me up at night has to do with extreme poverty; the issue is that the largest number of those who vote for us are the very poor. “The promises that government makes to them is that their lives will be better and obviously they are looking at their lives being better in the shortest possible time. “I will like to see Nigeria being an industrialised nation in the next 10 years; a very strong middle class and most people living above poverty line," Osinbajo said. The vice president disclosed this at an interactive session with faculty members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) in Lagos. He explained that a lot of government policies were taking into account people at the bottom of the pyramid with a focus on agriculture and getting credit facilities to farmers in order to achieve self sufficiency. The vice president said many farmers in the country had been lifted out of poverty by the Buhari administration. He said a lot of attention had also been given to the social intervention programmes (SIPs) which factored the provision..." Read the full story here: https://wp.me/paLLz4-Vm