Over 100 million Nigerian living Below Poverty Line -Osinbajo

                             

Vice President Osinbajo, said that the Policies of the past government have not made any positive impact on the ordinary people as a result of this wrongly formulated policies over a 100 million people in Nigeria are living below poverty line.
The V.P who spoke on Wednesday in the villa when he received the members of the Alumni Association of the National  Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies,NIPSS.he said his main concern is to implement policies that address the need of the people.


“When you look at the economic and social policies, and you look at the level of illiteracy in parts of the country, some are extremely bad and some with cases of about 80% or 90% of children out of school, and other cases of unimaginable decayed infrastructure”

“governments have not been accountable to the people, otherwise policies should have roots in the real conditions of the people.” There has been “policies that don’t seem to have solutions that truly reflect the understanding of the question of poverty in Nigeria" he said