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Saudi Investment in Nigeria Will Create Job Opportunities, Lifts Millions Out Of Poverty-Dr. Betta Edu Saudi Trade & Investment Minister, Khalid El-Falid “We are not coming to Nigeria for exploratory talks but coming for implementation” Investment is sure from Saudi Arabia. Nigeria is open for business, I can assure you. You will get the best return on investment, and our new policies will protect your business. This is your best opportunity to invest in all frontiers! Dr Doris Azuka Minister Of Industries Trade and Investment The renewed interest of the Saudi government and its Investors to invest in Nigeria and provide job opportunities that could lift millions of vulnerable Nigerians out of Poverty has been described as a welcome development and a huge achievement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Renewed Hope drive. Nigeria's Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu stated this on the sidelines of the Saudi-Africa Investment Summi...

All humanitarian response agencies operating in Nigeria, including the United Nations, European Unions, and other development partners have been urged to urgently deploy their services to Benue State, North Central Nigeria, to combat the debilitating humanitarian situation there. Nigeria's Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, made the call when she visited the Ichiwa Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camp situated within the North Bank axis of Makurdi She visited the company of the state governor, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia. The Minister said it would be impossible for the burden of the 14,000 IDPs in Ichiwa and millions of others in several other IDP camps located across the three senatorial districts of the state to be shouldered alone by both state and the federal government describing the situation she met on the ground as unacceptable and requiring an immediate concerted effort to redeem. Dr. Edu assured the IDPs of President T...

To bring relief to the victims of the flood in Isheri, Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, the Federal Government is set to give relief packages to victims while plans are on the way to help revive trade and livelihoods of businesses affected by the flood. As well as create new job opportunities through the targeted Adire Scheme intervention. The FG, through the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu during her visit to the state on Friday night where she was received by the Governor of Ogun state His Excellency Dapo Abiodun, said the visit would allow her to provide succor to the victims affected by the flood, discuss the various Social safety Net programs of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu and the various ways the state can key in. It will also allow her to receive the updated State’s Social Register which feeds into the National Social Register for Ogun and will allow Ogun beneficiaries to start receiving their Conditional...

The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, has outlined some of the specifics that will be done to remove 50 million people from poverty in Nigeria, as directed by President Bola Tinubu within the next 42 months while the push to lift 133m multi-dimensionally poor Nigerians out of poverty by 2030 will be on course. The President had on Wednesday, November 1st, announced that Ministers would sign a Performance Agreement with him at the end of the three-day cabinet retreat for ministers, presidential aides, permanent secretaries, and top government functionaries. Fielding questions from State House Correspondents on day two of the three-day retreat at the State House Conference Center, Abuja, she stated that the ongoing payment of N25,000 to poor households in Nigeria via the Conditional Cash Transfer program for the next three months, amounting to N75,000, was part of it. The minister explained that although the Programme is for an immediate cus...