- The Chief Economic Adviser to the President, Dr. Nwanze Okidegbe has said that the statement credited to the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly that 100 Million Nigerians are living in destitution or extreme poverty was a ‘spurious claim’ that is “easily disprovable. In a statement in Abuja, the Presidential Aide noted that the position of the country director is a sharp contrast to what the world bank had said about the level of poverty in Nigeria. “First, it clearly contradicts the position of the World Bank on the level of poverty in Nigeria. During the visit of the Bank’s Vice President for Africa, Makhtar Diop, in May 2013, he declared that poverty has fallen under this administration from 48 percent to 46 percent.
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