{
  "id": 1193886,
  "title": "Tanimu Yakubu: Widespread Poverty, Hardship Can’t Be Blamed on Tinubu’s Economic Reforms",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/tanimu-yakubu-widespread-poverty-hardship-cant-be-blamed-on-tinubus",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-16T04:04:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/08/16/tanimu-yakubu-widespread-poverty-hardship-cant-be-blamed-on-tinubus-economic-reforms/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Mr Tanimu Yakubu, has stated that widespread poverty and hardship in Nigeria cannot be blamed on the economic reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu's administration. Yakubu emphasized that Nigeria faced deep-rooted economic weaknesses, such as low productivity, foreign exchange distortions, fiscal leakages, and unreliable power supply, when it embarked on the reform journey. He urged against attributing the country's poverty crisis to the reforms, emphasizing that the issues causing poverty existed before the reforms were implemented.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}