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PRESS RELEASE!!! The Federal Government of Nigeria is set to cover no fewer than fifteen million households under its updated social safety net project tagged "Conditional Cash Transfer" CCT. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, made this known when she met the World Bank Country Director, Mr. Shubham Chaudhuri at the Bank's headquarters in Abuja. The Minister expressed gratitude to the World Bank Country Director for the continuous support extended to Nigeria especially in the areas of Education, Health, Agriculture, Private Sector Development, Social Services among others. Edu reminded the World Bank team of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that led to the renaming of the Ministry to Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to directly focus on the people and lift them out of poverty. "The flexibility of World Bank to accommodate the re-focused agenda of the Ministry to eliminate poverty is a...

The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to partner with the University of Calabar to train the trainers with skill acquisition-based knowledge to redistribute wealth and reduce poverty in the country. Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu stated this when she received the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi, and her team in her office. Edu said her office has the mandate to create Wealth and reduce poverty in Nigeria and expressed delight that the Unical Skill Acquisition and Vocational Center would come in handy in training thousands of youths, thereby reducing unemployment and social tension. According to the Minister, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was committed to reducing poverty in Nigeria and has directed that her Ministry hit the ground running. "Thankfully, the University of Calabar Skills Acquisition and Vocational Centre is available for you; we are going to partner with your university a...

Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu has restated President Bola Tinubu's determination to eradicate poverty in Nigeria in line with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs target. The Minister who made the assertion during an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja assured that every strata of the society including women, men, children, and people living with disabilities would benefit from the various poverty alleviation schemes of the government which would soon be unveiled by her Ministry. According to her, "President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has a clear vision on what he intends to do to eradicate poverty in line with the SDGs which states that poverty should be eradicated by 2030 and Nigeria is one of the Countries that signed onto the full implementation of SDG. "This explains why the president is fully committed to pulling Nigerians out of poverty" Tinubu, the Minister said, "believes that by the end of hi...

.....Reassures Nigerians Of Speedy Results under the Renewed Hope agenda. President Tinubu has on 21 August 2023 officially inaugurated his Ministers with a charge to immediately hit the ground running as neither him nor Nigerians will accept anything short of speedy result and success as the President is very passionate about bringing a renewed hope in the lives of Nigerians by alleviating them from poverty amongst others. Immediately after the inauguration, the Honorable Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Betta Edu resumed her new office and was received by the Permanent Secretary, Directors, Heads of agencies and a huge crowd at the ministry. The P.S Dr. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo who briefed the Honorable Minister on the activities of the Ministry over the past 4 years, appreciated her for her sterling performance over the years stating that she's the perfect person to head the Ministry judging from the fact that it is the closest to the people as it ad...