The Federal Government on Wednesday launched the National Poverty Intelligence Lab, a data-driven platform designed to strengthen the targeting, monitoring, and evaluation of poverty-reduction programmes, as it seeks to address the plight of an estimated 140 million Nigerians living below the poverty line.
The initiative, unveiled by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr. Bernard Doro, is expected to serve as the central intelligence and evidence-gathering hub for the government’s anti-poverty interventions.
Speaking at the opening of a three-day workshop on the operationalisation of the lab in Abuja, Doro said the country could no longer rely on assumptions and fragmented interventions in tackling poverty.
According to him, Nigeria’s poverty challenge requires a new approach anchored on data, evidence and accountability.
“Recent estimates indicate that approximately 140 million Nigerians live below the poverty line. The scale and depth of the challenge is staggering, but it is surmountable,” the minister
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