{"id":7971,"date":"2016-07-22T07:26:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T06:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2016-07-22T07:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T06:40:03","slug":"110m-people-have-no-business-being-poor-in-nigeria-neiti-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/110m-people-have-no-business-being-poor-in-nigeria-neiti-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"110m people have no business being poor in Nigeria &#8211; NEITI boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY EKEOBA<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mr Waziri Adio, said recently that there was no reason for Nigeria to have 110 million people living in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers which constitute 64.7 per cent of the country\u2019s 170 million population, according to the NEITI boss do not have business suffering considering the domestic economy income from oil.<\/p>\n<p>According to agency report, Adio who made this remarks during his visit to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Abuja during the week noted that \u201cWith the kind of money Nigeria made from oil in the past decades, there is no reason it should have 110 million poor people.<\/p>\n<p>The NEITI boss said that the visit was aimed at renewing collaboration between the two organizations to end corruption, impunity and mismanagement in the country\u2019s oil, gas and mining revenues<\/p>\n<p>Adio said for years, Nigeria enjoyed being an oil producing nation and reaped trillions of dollars in oil wealth, yet did not reach all levels in the society due to mismanagement and corrupt practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long our country is used as a symbol for anything that is wrong in terms of countries that are endowed with resources. We want that narrative to change.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf you recall, countries like Ghana, Kenya and others have also discovered oil and the first thing they do is to say how do we ensure that this resources will not lead us to the situation where Nigeria has been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA situation where natural resources lead to corruption, mismanagement and acute poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vice-President recently said that about 110 million Nigerians are poor. With the kind of trillions that we have made from oil, we have no reason to be there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no reason to have even 10 million Nigerians poor. So we want to change the narrative of Nigeria from the Norways of this world to the UAEs and the Botswana of this world,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged the National Assembly, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission and office of the Auditor-General with oversight functions to make use of the wealth of information in NEITI reports to fight corruption.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY EKEOBA The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mr Waziri Adio, said recently that there was no reason for Nigeria to have 110 million people living in poverty. 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