According to Mr Girei, poverty can only be fought by providing free, quality education for children.
The Jigawa government has banned tree felling for firewood and charcoal to protect forest resources and the environment.
Some women in Bwari Area Council of the FCT have complained of the rise in cost of firewood and charcoal, attributing it to the hike in price of cooking gas.
Dealers of coal and firewood are blaming the high rate of insecurity across the country and the rainy season for the increase in prices.
A UN report found that large numbers of livelihoods in other sub-Saharan African countries also depended on the fuelwood and charcoal economies.
Twenty-nine bodies of young firewood hawkers have been buried in Gidan Magana village in the Shagari local government area of Sokoto.
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