Juliet Jacob Ochenje
Benue State has been tagged the humanitarian capital of Nigeria by the United Nations.
This is according to the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, who disclosed this during an interview with journalists in Abuja.
“UN said Benue had become the humanitarian need capital in Nigeria, and as such, a lot of work needs to be done in the humanitarian angle,” she stated.
“We have a huge task on our hands, as we speak now. One of the agendas of Tinubu administration is to ensure that poverty is alliviated in Nigeria in line with the SDG goal one.
“The President is coming up with a very big pprogramme o alleviate Nigerians from poverty.”
She added, “A lot of work is being put into the planning stage as we have finished the debriefing from the different departments, as well as the agencies under us; we are working assiduously to ffinalise he plans.
“In a couple of weeks, we’ll be fully launching into this plans to help President Tinubu take out over 136m Nigerians out of poverty as implementation has started to help cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal.”
