133 Million Poor Nigerians: SERAP gives Buhari 7 days to probe social intervention programmes Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given President Muhammadu Buhari seven(7) days to set up a presidential panel of enquiry to thoroughly investigate spendings on all social safety-nets and poverty alleviation programmes and projects executed between 2015 and 2022. A recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that some 133 million Nigerians are poor, despite the government reportedly spending N500 billion yearly on "social investment programmes." Half of all poor people in the...