Ahead of her visit to Nigeria, British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has said that Nigeria is home to the highest number of poor people in the world.
She stated this on Tuesday when she declared that Africa is home to majority of the world’s fragile st
#ates, with a quarter of the world’s displaced people.

May asserted in Cape Town, South Africa, that 87 million Nigerians are living below the poverty line of $1 and 90 cents per day.
Before her comment, a global report had showed that Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari, had overtaken India with the world’s poorest people.
The Federal Government contested the integrity of the report, arguing that it did not reflect the situation on ground.
However, May said: “Much of Nigeria is thriving, with many individuals enjoying the fruits of a resurgent economy, yet 87 million Nigerians live below $1 and 90 cents a day, making it home to more very poor people than any other nation in the world”.
The British premier said that achieving inclusive growth was a major challenge across the world, adding that Africa needs to create 50,000 new jobs daily to keep employment rate at its current levels till 2035.

According to agency report, May added that “I am unashamed about the need to ensure that our aid programme works for the United Kingdom (UK).
“Today I am committing that our development spending will not only combat extreme poverty but at the same time, tackle global challenges and support our own national interest.
“It is in the world’s interest to see that those jobs are created, to tackle the causes and symptoms of extremism and instability, to deal with migration flows and to encourage clean growth,” she said.

*PDP urges May to verify Buhari’s claims on projects
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Theresa May to use her visit to Nigeria to uncover and the dismal state of the country by resisting a choreographed plan by the Presidency to hoodwink her for an endorsement stunt.
The party also called on the British leader not to allow Buhari to confine her to the parlours of the Presidential Villa, but to insist on visiting other parts of the country to enable her directly appreciate the level of lies and false performance indices the Federal Government has been dishing out to the world.

In a statement Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said that it was aware of plans by the Federal Government to use the visit to dish out more lies to the international community, in an effort to cover its failures in governance in the last three years, for which Nigerians are clamouring for a new president.

The party further charged the Prime Minister to take the Buhari Presidency to task on its unabated interferences and violent attacks on the institution of the National Assembly, including threats to forcefully remove the elected presiding officers of the Senate, as well as the recent invasion and blockade of the National Assembly by Presidency-controlled security forces

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