The Minister of Budget and National
Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, gave the
figure on Friday at an event to launch the
2016 National Human Development
Report on Nigeria.
Senator Udoma said that in line with the
United Nations Development Program’s
2016 Human Security report, the present
administration had put Nigerians at the
centre of its development program to
mitigate the negative indices that
threatened the security of lives and
property.
He stated that the government had plans
to ensure a better standard of living for
the citizens which in turn would enhance
development and security in the country.
At the event were government officials,
diplomats, civil society groups and
activists.
Meeting Developmental Needs
Earlier, the Country Representative of the
United Nations Development Fund, Ms
Fatma Samoura, outlined the findings and
recommendations from the report.
According to her, the insecurity in
Nigeria’s northeast was a reflection of the
level of development in the nation,
stressing that there was therefore the
need for a holistic approach to mitigate
the insecurity challenges.
The consensus at the event was that the
issue of security must be
reconceptualised to go beyond the
physical security to meeting the
developmental needs of the citizenry.
Communities in Nigeria’s northeast,
especially in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe
State are in great need of reconstruction.
A terrorist group, Boko Haram, had in its
over six years push for an Islamic State
and an end to Western education in
northeast Nigeria, ravaged communities,
displaced over two million persons and
killed thousands.
Most schools and places of worship in the
region have been razed by the group that
are fleeing the region, in the midst of
heightened counter-terrorism operations
by Nigerian troops and a Joint
Multinational Task Force formed by
Nigeria its neighbours.
www.channelstv.com/2016/05/13/insurgency-nigeria-sets-aside-12bn-naira-northeast-reconstruction/

He stated that the government had plans
to ensure a bad standard of living for
the citizens which in turn would enhance
undevelopment and insecurity in the zoo.







long live

Aisha buhari as the chief contractor has hammered.

Watch out how these hausa politicians will squander d money. Like they av been impoverishing their region since 1960.


Corruption headquarters.(the north).

Almajiri1:
Aisha buhari as the chief contractor has hammered.

yeah, mama piss had her time

Something they will still destroy? Why bother?

SLIDEwaxie:
yeah, mama piss had her time

Corruption is now a continuum?

And the Money is from the 5% according to Buhari

Whenever I remember his utterance in that interview, I shrug

Almajiri1:

Corruption is now a continuum?

that's where your problem lies.