Governor Umaru Bago of Niger has said that majority of the population in the State live below poverty line. He made the assertion while delivering a keynote address at a Sustainable Economic Development Cluster (SEDEC) programme for critical stakeholders in Minna, the state capital on Tuesday. The event was organised by German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). Bago, represented by the Deputy Governor Yakubu Garba, said that statistics of inequality on a wide range of indices in the state was worrisome. “Over half of our population lives below the poverty line.…
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