Nigeria's President Buhari Sets Up Council to Boost Growth, Cut Poverty – Bloomberg

August 23, 2021

Muhammadu Buhari
Photographer: Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari established a new team to work on boosting growth and reducing poverty in Africa’s biggest economy.
The so-called National Council on Poverty Reduction will lead the implementation of a strategy that seeks to accelerate economic growth and lift at least 100 million people out of poverty by 2030.

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Nigeria has been caught up in the web of agitation for secession by many citizens, a majority of whom are youths. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – a group of young Nigerians in the South East is agitating to break out of the country, some youths in the South West are also calling for a Yoruba Nation.

The Diocese of Anglican Communion, yesterday rose from its 22nd Synod and called for national rebirth, saying that, agitation for break up of Nigeria, were as a result of injustice, Nepotism & Bigotry at the centre. This was also as it said that Nigeria ought not to be poverty capital of the world, when the country is sitting on gold with its abundant resources.