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Nigeria's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo said, yesterday, that the country is bound to have health crises with the current number of extremely poor Nigerians.
The vice president, however, said that there were specific provisions in the 2016 Appropriation Bill to tackle poverty, DailyTrust reports.
Osinbajo said this while receiving a delegation of Reckitt Benckiser West Africa, a household care products’ company, led by its West Africa Managing Director Mr. Rahul Murgai and the Chairman in Nigeria, Chief Olu Falomo.
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity Laolu Akande said in a statement that the company had earlier discussed with Osinbajo, its Safe the Children Initiative, a corporate social responsibility programme designed to curb deaths of Nigerian children from diarrhea. “When you have the number of extremely poor Nigerians that we have in this country, we are bound to have these kinds of health problems.
We are dealing with the issues of poverty with the 2016 budget that is currently being debated. “In a country where more than 110 million Nigerians are extremely poor, we are bound to have such health challenges as having about 110,000 deaths yearly from Diarrhea”, the vice president said.
Source: DailyTrust
The vice president, however, said that there were specific provisions in the 2016 Appropriation Bill to tackle poverty, DailyTrust reports.
Osinbajo said this while receiving a delegation of Reckitt Benckiser West Africa, a household care products’ company, led by its West Africa Managing Director Mr. Rahul Murgai and the Chairman in Nigeria, Chief Olu Falomo.
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity Laolu Akande said in a statement that the company had earlier discussed with Osinbajo, its Safe the Children Initiative, a corporate social responsibility programme designed to curb deaths of Nigerian children from diarrhea. “When you have the number of extremely poor Nigerians that we have in this country, we are bound to have these kinds of health problems.
We are dealing with the issues of poverty with the 2016 budget that is currently being debated. “In a country where more than 110 million Nigerians are extremely poor, we are bound to have such health challenges as having about 110,000 deaths yearly from Diarrhea”, the vice president said.
Source: DailyTrust
