58 million Nigerians are poor-NASSCO

Atleast, 58 million Nigerians are poor, the National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO) has said in Kaduna on Wednesday. 

The gathering unveiled this at the opening ceremony of a four-day training of Community based targeting team (CBTT) to set up an enlist of poor family groups in

Kaduna State.

It was assembled that NASSCO, under the office of the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, is directing the training in a joint effort with the Kaduna state government with the point of handling the poverty state in the nation. 

Talking at the opening ceremony, the National Coordinator of the program, Mr. Peter Papka said the training was a piece of process for the usage of National Cash Transfer and different projects went for tending to the unsatisfactory level of poverty in Nigeria. 

Spoken to by the Head of Operations, Hajiya Hajara Sami, Papka stated: "The Federal government is focused on reducing the poverty level in which 58 million Nigerians are encountering, to the barest least particularly in groups where it is a provincial wonder. 

"It is observed that regardless of considerable late development in GDP, poverty stays inescapable, nourishment frailties, regular hardship among others." 

He encouraged the members drawn from nine chose neighborhood government zones over the three senatorial regions of the state to show total duty to the task. 

On his part, the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasiru El-Rufai said the determination was done in view of the poverty rating of the neighborhood government zones in the three senatorial zones in the state. 

Spoken to by the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Muhammad Sani Abdullahi, El-Rufai said the preparation would in the long run produce a solitary enlist for poor people and helpless in the state.