There’s a saying that “Welfare Offers Short-Term Help And Long-Term Poverty” and the truth is, only lazy people believe otherwise. Also, Abraham Lincoln once said “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves” No doubts, with the above sayings, welfare destroys the future of those who depend on […]

The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, spoke on Monday when the House of Representatives Committee on National Planning and Economic Development led by its Chairman, Hon. Olododo Abdulganiyu Saka, visited the ministry in pursuance of its oversight function.

By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has blamed the high rate of corruption and poverty in the country on President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. This is as the party in a statement on Sunday, said the grandstanding by the Buhari-led Presidency in response to revelations of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday at the United Nations outlined the Federal Government’s plans to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within the next 10 years. The president spoke in a video message to a high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on poverty eradication. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the […]

The Federal Government said, yesterday that before the pandemic runs out,  millions more Nigerians would be under extreme poverty, while the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, might likely fall between -4.40 per  cent and -8.91 per cent, depending on how long the crises will last and the strength of the economic response.