Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, an economic think tank report has scored President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo’s administration high on poverty reduction.
The National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy (NPRGS) report released on Friday, rated the administration high in key areas of its poverty reduction programmes.
The report indicated that the Agriculture for Jobs Plan impacted about 1.6 million smallholder farmers. At the same time, 13,000 youths have been trained under a Technical and Vocational Education and Training programme in six states comprising Lagos, Ogun, Enugu, Gombe, Kaduna and Nasarawa, while arrangements are underway to provide similar training for 2000 beneficiaries in Edo State.
Equally, more than 8,000 Nigerians were employed in rural road construction under the Rural Roads programme, which built 40 rural roads in 120 communities, covering about 57.3 km across the country.
Confirming the development, the spokesman to the…
