As inflationary pressure continues to mount nationwide, the Federal Government has steadily increased monthly allocations to avail more resources for state governors to dampen the severity of hardship in their domains. Besides the pledges of the Governors’ Forum and workable interventions in states like Lagos, residents are asking for more feasible pro-poor programmes that cut across spheres of basic needs, KEHINDE OLATUNJI reports.
It is a cliché that ‘one cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well’. And that is the reality of many Nigerians as the current economic hardship continues to feast on the people.
Indeed, since the President Bola Tinubu-led administration came on board with its infamous ‘subsidy is gone’ declaration, the already bad hunger and poverty burden has become heavier.
The numbers are terrifying. For instance, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) explained that the price…
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