The Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, Aims to Lift 100 Million Nigerians Out of Poverty in 2020
During an appearance on NTA, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 2020, aligning with President Muhammadu Buhari's 2019 pledge.
Ahmed emphasized the government's focus on poverty eradication, stating,
“President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that we must pull 100 million Nigerians out of poverty and that is our major focus. Based on the president’s directives, we want to move fast to make the kind of change the president wanted in the country.
“In 2020, we want to move very fast because we realized that going at the steady rate we are doing is not going to make the kind of change that the president has directed must happen.
“So, we have to make sure t...