Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, Minister of Trade and Investment, says the country will become poorer if Nigerians keep having children.
The Minister said this on Wednesday while reacting to the Brookings Report that rated Nigeria as the country with the most poor people in the world.
“So, I think we should roll up our sleeves as a people and do the work because, if we don’t do it, our people continue to bear children obviously, they would get poorer,” he said.
“He also faulted the data for the global poverty report recently released, insisting it was collected during the period of economic recession.
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that Brookings Institution published a report that put Nigeria ahead of India on the world poverty index.
Mr. Enelamah said: “I think, first, we need to understand when we get these reports that there are reports that are lagging in indicators,…
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