Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the problem of extreme poverty in Nigeria keeps him up at night.
Osinbajo said what keeps him awake is the issue of the largest number of those who voted for them are in extreme poverty.
He added that the promises the government made to improve their lives should be fulfilled in the shortest possible time.
The Vice President featured alongside Srikant Datar, Professor of Business Administration (HBS), and Bayo Ogunlesi, a Nigerian investment banker at a question and answer session moderated by Hakeem Bello-Osagie, Chairman of Metis Capital Partners.
Osinbajo said that a lot of government policies were taking into account people at the bottom of the pyramid with a focus on agriculture and getting credit facilities to farmers in order to achieve self sufficiency.
The Vice President said that there are expectations that Nigeria in the next 10 years would be industrialised.
He said that Social Intervention Programmes (SIPs) had provided cheap credit to petty traders at the bottom of the pyramid.
(NAN)