The Federal Government has said almost half of Nigeria’s population, about 90 million people, live in extreme poverty.

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Mrs Sadiya Farouq, declared this in Abuja on Monday when she appeared before the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development to defend the ministry’s 2020 budget proposal.



The minister stated that the ministry had the enormous responsibility of addressing some of the underlining causes, drivers and consequences of humanitarian crises and underdevelopment.

She said the crises included the fact that “relatively high poverty, nearly half (90 million) of the country’s 198 million population, live in extreme poverty; relatively high unemployment at 23.2 per cent with over 40 million unemployed or underemployed citizens; high number of persons of concern, including over two million Internally Displaced Persons; 230,000 Nigerian refugees in Niger, Chad and Cameroon and 45,000 refugees in Nigeria; over 22 million persons with disabilities; over 14 million persons in one form of drug and substance abuse or the other; and growing needs of the elderly and other vulnerable groups.”

Farouq said the proposed total 2020 budget for the ministry was N3,582,102,000. The amount comprises N499, 975,000 for recurrent expenditure and N3,082,127,000 for capital expenditure.

According to Farouq, the ministry has six agencies under its supervision, namely the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, the National Emergency Management Agency, the National Social Investment Office, the North East Development Commission, the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.

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And yet, still deceived himself that buhari is doing great. , if increase in poverty is your idea of doing great, then may your life and business represent what Nigeria has become under buhari. Amen.

Yes, mostly in the parasitic North, I mean the north west and north east. These same areas are the reason why Nigeria has remained in this level of underdevelopment. If only these two regions were carved into Niger Rep and Cameroon, we would have become Africa's most developed nation by now. Smh!

Go check the public arena ,it is 90% of Nigetians that are wallowing in picerty

All the terrible things that have held us down all emanated from these two backward regions. Religious crises, insecurity (Maitasine, boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, suicide bombing, Islamic riots etc), poverty, disease, illiteracy, almajiri system, VVF etc.
If only Gideon Orkar succeeded in removing them from Nigeria like he planned during his coup, we would have gotten rid of this cancer that is now spreading all the country. SMH!!

That's so sad. Sadder this government have no clue how to get them out

content208:
And yet, still deceived himself that buhari is doing great. , if increase in poverty is your idea of doing great, then may your life and business represent what Nigeria has become under buhari. Amen.

is an idiot, person wey no fit put buhari as im manager, na disgrace that guy be...

Nuclear99:
is an idiot, person wey no fit put buhari as im manager, na disgrace that guy be...

, may the lives of your kids end up the way Nigeria has become under buhari

proeast:
Yes, mostly in the parasitic North, I mean the north west and north east. These same areas are the reason why Nigeria has remained in this level of underdevelopment. If only these two regions were carved into Niger Rep and Cameroon, we would have become Africa's most developed nation by now. Smh!

You need a brain check