Still, the cabinet minister insists the administration is responding to economic challenges inflicted by the global pandemic and the results are becoming visible.
Mr Obi reiterated that “education is the most important investment any nation can make.”
“As such, my next plan is how to take 50,000 families out of poverty through an empowerment programme that is coming soon, by the grace of God.”
Mr Jega major indices of development show that the North is backwards on all fronts. He attributed the “terrible statistics” to poor northern leaders.
The organisation said the number of people in critical or worse phases of food insecurity might increase to about 16.9 million.
“About half of them, or 644 million, are children under age 18; and nearly 85 per cent live in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.”
The federal government began disbursement of N5,000 to poor and vulnerable people in Ogun on Friday under its Conditional Cash Transfer programme.
“As of April 2021, the inflation rate was the highest in four years. Food prices accounted for over 60 per cent of the total increase in inflation.”
“I’m sure what he meant to say was that he has lifted 10.5m Nigerians out of wealth into poverty, death and anguish.”
“If the Yoruba can stand as a country; if the Igbos and the Hausa/Fulani can stand as separate countries, where do we want the minority groups to be?”
