President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration has lifted five million Nigerians out of extreme poverty in three years.

Speaking at the opening of the global youth employment forum of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Abuja on Thursday, Buhari said this was achieved through the National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP).

He said N-SIP has produced positive outcome in the enrollment of children in schools.

Represented by Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Buhari said the government understands the need to focus on youth empowerment to create employment.

A new report by The World Poverty Clock shows Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the most extreme poor people in the world. India has a population seven times larger than Nigeria’s.

The struggle to lift more citizens out of extreme poverty is an indictment on successive Nigerian governments including Buhari which have mismanaged the country’s vast oil riches through incompetence and corruption.

The 86.9 million Nigerians now living in extreme poverty represents nearly 50% of its estimated 180 million population. As Nigeria faces a major population boom—it will become the world’s third largest country by 2050—it’s a problem will likely worsen. But having large swathes of people still living in extreme poverty is an Africa-wide problem.

As a consequence, the mission to end extreme poverty globally through the SDG is already at risk. By July 2019, 83 million people would have been lifted out of extreme poverty since January 2016.

Buhari on His part failed to prove any fact how his N-SIP have helped in lifting Nigerians from poverty, rather; there are indications that his strategy are not effective as his wife have come out to complain about seeing no remarkable impact despite huge investment. Buhari’s claim is simply lies!

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So, what should the poor men’s children who populate here daily do?