How we’ll get data to locate poor Nigerians – Minister Designate

The Minister Designate of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Nentawe Yilwatda, said his ministry will adopt the data of the National Population Commission (NPC) to determine the locations of vulnerable people across the country.

Mr Yilwatda, a former electoral official who served as Benue State Resident Electoral Commissioner in 2017, explained that the electoral commission, INEC, also uses the data from the NPC.

He said Nigeria’s geospatial data, used by…