{"id":170151,"date":"2025-07-18T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/investment-in-infrastructure-key-to-reducing-poverty-nigeria"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:39:41","slug":"investment-in-infrastructure-key-to-reducing-poverty-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/investment-in-infrastructure-key-to-reducing-poverty-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Investment in Infrastructure Key to Reducing Poverty Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Economic Affairs, Tope Fasua, says deliberate and consistent investment in infrastructure remains the only panacea to reduce multidimensional poverty in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Fasua, who made this statement on Friday, when he featured in \u2018The Morning Show\u2019, a programme on Arise News, emphasised that the solution to Nigeria\u2019s deeply rooted, non-income-based poverty lies in building the physical systems that bring people closer to essential services.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, multidimensional poverty goes beyond monetary measures such as daily income.<\/p>\n<p>He added that it encompasses access to health services, education, clean water, transportation, and other social amenities.<\/p>\n<p>While citing commonly quoted figures such as 130 million Nigerians living in multidimensional poverty, the presidential aide warned against treating the statistics as static without examining what they truly represent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way in the books that you can reduce multidimensional poverty is by spending on infrastructure. I fully support a larger budget; Nigeria has one of the lowest budgets per capita in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2019, Nigeria\u2019s budget per capita was surpassed only by that of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We need to reimagine a new Nigeria and avoid being trapped in a state of cognitive dissonance, where we can only envision the negative aspects of our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Economic Affairs, Tope Fasua, says deliberate and consistent investment in infrastructure remains the only panacea to reduce multidimensional poverty in Nigeria. 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