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Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by SlavaUkraini(op): 11:47am On Jul 16

Vice President Kashim Shettima has asserted that Nigeria has no business being poor.

Shettima spoke while delivering a keynote address at the Agric, Development and Investment Summit in Abuja on Wednesday.

He recalled how Indonesia’s revenue from oil palm outweighed Nigeria’s income from crude oil in 2025.

The vice president said, “Indonesia is an oil producing but in 2025 it earned 25 billion dollars from 53 tons of crude palm oil while exporting only 32 million tons, its revenue exceeded more than Nigeria’s oil revenue with just 50 percent of what Indonesia earned from oil palm export.

“The Niger Delta is the third largest Delta in the world, and what do people in Mariculture do ? Fish farming like Salmond, Tuner, lobsters, and the Delta is endowed with those resources.

In this great nation of ours, we have no business being poor, we have the potential to be one of the richest countries in the world. There are certain parts of this country where money can grow, you can plant money and harvest tremendous money resources.”

https://dailypost.ng/2026/07/16/nigeria-has-no-business-with-poverty-shettima/

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Ofunaofu: 11:52am On Jul 16

And the government you and Tinubu lead has succeeded in pushing more Nigerians into poverty than any other administration in the history of this country.

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by AMINDA: 12:03pm On Jul 16

Is Shettima now indicting the Tinubu government that he's a part of?

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Sheuns(m): 12:32pm On Jul 16

Why are you saying these?

You and your boss are at the helm of affairs and have plunged more into poverty than any before you.

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by givedemwotowoto: 2:32pm On Jul 16

Shettima is telling you indirectly that his own government has failed.

It's up to you to punish failure, or collect 15,000 kpa and reward failure

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by OlaOfLagos(m): 2:33pm On Jul 16

These people with there ogogoro talk

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Kingpele(m): 2:34pm On Jul 16

But your principal thinks otherwise, he believes creating more poverty stricten populace will increase his chances of winning election next year..once his family and cronies are super rich every other person can manage poverty...no one will blame u sir because we heard u are lest powerful in the government

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Sonofgod1990(m): 2:34pm On Jul 16

Shettima should tell me how paying yarimo 10k monthly can bring him out from povatiiii

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by greatiyk4u(m): 2:35pm On Jul 16

So why are majority of Nigerians hungry under you and your Wicked Boss regime

Are you indicting yourselves?

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by ppogba: 2:35pm On Jul 16

As long as the people in the class you belong to keep acquiring 59 properties amongst the ones clear to us , Nigeria will always sleep on the same bed with poverty.

Alhaji,stop deceiving us with political statements well suited for political campaigns.

Nagode.

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by salbis(m): 2:35pm On Jul 16

Na wetin dis people dey smoke before opening their mouths to speak?

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Guestmale: 2:35pm On Jul 16

Yes we have no business being poor but corruption,fraud, selfishness and tribalism has made us so.

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Pedro2033(m): 2:36pm On Jul 16

Tinubu and shettima na definition of real Devil 😈😈😈😈

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Hellisreal70: 2:37pm On Jul 16

Then why are nigerians now wallowing in poverty?

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Kelklein(m): 2:37pm On Jul 16

With the way a few people with access to the till steal with reckless abandon, I can tell you for free sir that we have business with poverty.

Most recently see what Emefiele, Malami, Achimugu, Bello, Sírika, Saleh and so on had done..

And what those currently in power are doing.

Nations that fought poverty and won first had patriotic citizens and leaders who made collective resolves to rather have a free drinking water for all instead of champagne for a few..

We still have a long way..🤔🤔

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Eba50: 2:37pm On Jul 16

but we have 100 percent business with poverty. Nigeria enter one chance with apc, buhabokori and tinubooo

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by alizma: 2:38pm On Jul 16

Baba don us style drop update, he said there are part of this country where you can plant money and harvest money, meaning many politicians have buried money around their houses, if you can dig the right spot, you can harvest money

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by wasi9ice: 2:38pm On Jul 16

Amen, I accept that with faith
Poverty is not for me

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by judewrites: 2:38pm On Jul 16

No be cho, cho, cho....let this administration do practical things to alleviate the poverty.

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by COEMMA(m): 2:39pm On Jul 16

Oga shetti Shetti, una don d give statistics?
I think say ur oga asked, is it statistics we go chop?
Soon Tinubu go give him own
KUDOS TO OBI D REWRITER OF NIGERIAN POLITICS

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Tenses: 2:39pm On Jul 16

But under your watch Nigeria became world poverty capital.

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by MANNABBQGRILLS: 2:39pm On Jul 16

Na today una dey know dat?

Nigeria should be to Africa what China is to the world

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by WorkTheTalk(m): 2:39pm On Jul 16

This is a clear admittance of governance failure. In Nigeria, corruption is embedded in the executive, the legislature, the judiciary. Where there are thieves in government, poverty abound.

Maybe you think the world doesn't know what's happening in Nigeria? Then think again.

No one takes Tinubu and the current Nigerian government seriously. pic.twitter.com/OM5t16hE6K
— Queen Bee 👑 🐝 (@RealQueenBee__) July 12, 2026

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Kingrshd3: 2:40pm On Jul 16

everyone is rich depending how the lifestyle you are living .
Take it or leave it

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Kingrshd3: 2:41pm On Jul 16

The truth is that even in developed countries not everyone is rich ..

So I am rich claim your own

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Nozarashi: 2:42pm On Jul 16

People and their lack of comprehension, He said [/b] NIGERIA, not [b] Nigerians.

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by sekeyso(m): 2:42pm On Jul 16

Talk is cheap....it's not news that Nigeria has no business with poverty.
As the vice-president what are you doing to address this abnormality. Instead the government you're part of has plunged Nigeria to multi dimensional poverty.

This politicians no get shame at all

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by h777(f): 2:43pm On Jul 16

Does he even understood that poverty is worse than death? When you are dead you are totally free from human bondages, as long as you are alive to Tinubu regime, and suffering and hearing clones making political statements, you will realise you got a long way to go . Tinubu will live to regret every hardship he has inflicted on innocent people because of his personal greed for wealth and power. All he thinks about is politics and power . He doesn't care about ordinary people, he wants slaves and foot soldiers to fight for his longevity. He will wait in vain.

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Omalicious1: 2:43pm On Jul 16

SlavaUkraini:
https://dailypost.ng/2026/07/16/nigeria-has-no-business-with-poverty-shettima/

Sir, we will be poor if we keep making wrong decisions and if the farmers can't go to farm due to insecurity.

Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Antoeni(m): 2:43pm On Jul 16

Tinubu APC Government Has Made Nigerians 5 Times Poorer Than They Were During Buhari, Nigerians Has Never Had It This Terrible,

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by CENI: 2:45pm On Jul 16

Did Shettima drink hashishi before saying this? grin

Let him tell us the part of the country where one can plant money and harvet money too , and how many hectares have him and his partner in crime boss cultivated.
Is this how he will tell us that he's happy being nominated as vp again in this poverty growing and breeding government? cheesy

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Re: Nigeria Has No Business With Poverty – Shettima by Elusive001: 2:46pm On Jul 16

In this great nation of ours, we have no business being poor, we have the potential to be one of the richest countries in the world. There are certain parts of this country where money can grow, you can plant money and harvest tremendous money resources.”

So why is there poverty in Nigeria under Tinubu’s watch? Does it mean that Tinubu has business with making Nigerians poor?

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