24m Niger Deltans Are Multi-Dimensionally Poor — Okonjo-Iweala

Director-general of World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has declared that 24 million, out of about 50 million people in the Niger Delta region are rated as multi-dimensionally poor.
Okonjo-Iweala made the declaration while speaking via zoom, during the opening ceremony of the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The three-day summit with the theme: “Driving Investment, Innovation and Industrial Growth in the Niger Delta,” was organised by the Niger Delta Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Trade, Mines and Agriculture (NDCCITMA).
She stated that available data shows that only four, our of the nine states in the Niger ...