Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities to play its roles adequately to enable the government to realise its objective of lifting 100 million citizens out of poverty.
The president gave the charge on Thursday at the State House, Abuja, when he received members of the newly established Governing Council of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities.
He said: “I am enjoining you as a team of the commission to realise that your work forms a critical aspect in achieving the objective of our administration to removing 100 million Nigerians out of poverty.
“I am, therefore, looking forward to commissioning projects and programmes of high impact to the disabled community in line with this vision.
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday charged National Commission for Persons with Disabilities to play its roles adequately in the realisation of the government objective of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty.
President Buhari stated this when he received members of the newly established body at the State House, Abuja.
He said,” I am enjoining you as a team of the commission, to realize that your work forms a critical aspect in achieving the objective of our Administration to removing 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. I am therefore looking forward to commissioning projects and programmes of high impact on the disabled community in line with this vision.
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The Federal Government has placed the number of people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East, armed banditry in the North-West and communal clashes in the country at about two million.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouk, disclosed this to correspondents after leading members of the newly established National Commission for Persons with Disabilities on a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Thursday.
She, however, assured that her ministry was doing all that is necessary to provide support and resettle them.
Asked for an overview on the situation of the displaced persons in the northeast and North -West, she said: “Well, as at today, we have over two million displaced persons in the country. Ranging from those displaced by insurgency, armed banditry, communal clashes and so on and so forth.
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President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja charged National Commission for Persons with Disabilities to play its roles adequately in the realisation of the government objective of lifting 100million Nigerians out of poverty.
Speaking when he received members of the newly established body at the State House, President Buhari said,” I am enjoining you as a team of the commission, to realize that your work forms a critical aspect in achieving the objective of our Administration to removing 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. I am therefore looking forward to commissioning projects and programmes of high impact on the disabled community in line with this vision.