The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has said that the government is working to ensure that many Nigerians are protected from falling into poverty as it rolls out programs to lift those already in it.
The Minister, who stated this in a statement by her Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Mr Rasheed Zubair, on Sunday, said more Nigerians would be prevented from falling into poverty through the Ministry’s social safety programme.
This is even as she disclosed that President Tinubu is also “coming up with a very robust program to lift Nigerians out of poverty.”
Verification of social register
She said the ministry had come up with innovative ways of thorough verification of the social register for accuracy and transparency.
The minister promised to upgrade, rejig, and expand the social safety net program to accommodate more people through a transparent process.
She therefore assured Nigerians that the ministry would soon come up with an accurate and acceptable social register to curb the challenge associated with disparity in the register.
Humanitarian intervention
The Minister disclosed that no fewer than 8.3 million Nigerians are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
According to her, the figure is part of the total 16 million Nigerians affected by various humanitarian crises, with the three states worse hit.
She said aside from the North-East, Benue in the North/Central had been tagged the capital of humanitarian crises in Nigeria by the United Nations.
