Sixty-three per cent of Nigerians, or 113 million Nigerians remain multi-dimensionally poor, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs has said..
Adefulire made the statement during an advocacy and sensitization campaign in Kano and Ondo states on Monday, July 1, noting that the global community was way behind in achieving the SDGs.
Adefulire’s statement comes after the Multidimensional Poverty Index Report (2022) and the National Bureau of Statistics’ Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Report (2022) revealed significant leves of poverty across states and geopolitical zones, with the north having a higher poverty rate than the south.
Adefulire said: “The global community is lagging behind in efforts to attain the Sustainable Development Goals, and Nigeria is facing various challenges.
”Therefore, it’s imperative for all stakeholders, particularly state and local governments, to accelerate…
Source: Linda Ikeji
