Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has restated President Bola Tinubu’s commitment towards creating 10 million jobs through the ministry of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation.

In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, the Minister stated that the President is passionate about the wellbeing of Nigerians and as such, determined to create over 10 million jobs through her ministry.

According to her, this will be achieved through different interventions and initiatives aimed at reducing poverty.

She added that as the ministry whose impacts would have direct bearing on the people, she is poised to always be the gauge of the pulse of the people ad to attend to their needs.

The minister who was inaugurated on Monday alongside 45 others, assured Nigerians of her determination to ensure transparency and accountability during her tenure.

Indeed it is a ‘Renewed Hope’ for all Nigerians as President Tinubu came very prepared,” the Minister added. The Humanitarian Ministry seeks to ease human suffering and maintain/reestablish circumstances that honor and protect human dignity with a mission to develop good humanitarian policies and provide effective coordination of National and International humanitarian interventions that will benefit Nigerians and remove them from poverty.

She added that the ministry will also be working on President Tinubu’s action plan to pull 136 million Nigerians from poverty. “The journey to achieving this great feat has just began, Nigerians will get results soon,” she said.