The President of Crusade for Greater Nigeria on Poverty Eradication and Social Matters CFGN, Mr Prosper Okafor has called for increased girl child education to alleviate poverty in the country.
Mr Okafor made the call in an interview with journalists on Friday in Abuja Nigeria’s capital.
Okafor urged parents and government at different levels to prioritise the education of young people, especially the girl child.
He states, “When I talk about education, I am not limiting it to official or conventional education but skills acquisition, vocational training and handwork.
“My NGO has facilitated workshops and training of thousands of youths in different skills just to help them escape poverty and joblessness,” he said.
The Poverty Alleviation Advocate who commended President Tinubu for devising ways of tackling poverty, appealed for more strategies to empower the people, especially the girl child.
He wondered why some people lacked basic education in this era.
According to him, the easiest way out of poverty is knowledge, not ignorance.
Okafor expressed willingness to continue to complement the government’s efforts in poverty Alleviation and urged Nigerians to rise above poverty.
“It is important for us to help ourselves by taking a self-decision of saying no to poverty by being enterprising no matter how little.”
Voice of Nigerians gathered that the poverty rate in Nigeria according to the World Bank is 46 percent representing 104 million poor Nigerians.
Dominica Nwabufo
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