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58m Nigerians live below poverty line – NASSP

No fewer than 58 million Nigerians still live below the poverty line, so says National Social Safety net program (NASSP), the office of the vice president.
This is in spite of Federal Government’s efforts to reposition the economy through various programs.
Coordinator of NASSP, Mr. Peter Papka, stated this in Lafia, Nasarawa State, during a three-day training program on community-based targeting for identification of the poor and vulnerable people in Nasarawa organize by NASSP in partnership with Nasarawa State Government.
Papka said that the distribution of the nation’s resource has not translated into the diversification of the sources of income for most families, adding that the community-based single register of the poor and vulnerable is aimed at reducing extreme poverty in the country.
Represented by the head of National Social registry, Mr. Vicent Oriokpa, Papka said the single register was established on the basis of a well-thought out community-based targeting approach where communities would be able to identify poor households in the communities

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