The Minister of Finance Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that no Nigerian should be living in poverty when the country has enough land to grow its crop and feed its people.
She made the remark yesterday in Abuja in Abuja, when the singer, Dapo Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’Banj, paid her a visit in her office at the Federal Ministry of Finance Headquarters. The minister noted that agric was the best way to fight poverty in Nigeria, and indeed Africa.
“I think we are using only about 44% of our arable land,” she said. “Even as we are the biggest economy in Africa, we should turn our attention to the larges sector, which is agric.”
D’Banj, who is the federal government’s ‘Do Agric, It Pays’ ambassador, was in her office to present to her a petition signed by over two million African youths calling on their governments to invest more in the agric sector. He also presented to her bags of ‘Koko Garri’, his brand of packaged cassava grain.
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