{"id":191492,"date":"2025-02-15T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-north-east-faces-extreme-poverty-vp-shettima\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:49:00","slug":"nigeria-north-east-faces-extreme-poverty-vp-shettima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-north-east-faces-extreme-poverty-vp-shettima\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: North-East Faces Extreme Poverty &#8211; VP Shettima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has said that the North-East suffers extreme poverty even as he hailed North-East Development Commission (NEDC) for investing in education to wriggle the region from poverty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He also has said that posterity will judge the NEDC fairly for going beyond infrastructure development to investing in education and green technology through the Accelerated Senior Secondary Education Programme (ASSEP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">He described ASSEP as the actual game-changer in this age and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140342.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has said that the North-East suffers extreme poverty even as he hailed North-East Development Commission (NEDC) for investing in education to wriggle the region from poverty. He also has said that posterity will judge the NEDC fairly for going beyond infrastructure development to investing in education and green technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10411,5080,257,4687,393,12646,7121,17223,254],"class_list":["post-191492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-extreme","tag-faces","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-northeast","tag-poverty","tag-shettima","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}