 The federal government has blamed state governors for the rise in poverty levels across the federation. The Minister of State for Budget and National Plan and Clem Alba are told newsmen that by the Federal Executive Council meeting today that the federal government's social investment plan has not impacted optimally because of a lack of cooperation from the state governors. Alba further asserted that the governors concentrate on executing bogus projects rather than improving lives in the rural areas. Now 70% of our people live in the rural areas. They produce 90% of what we eat and unfortunately 60% of what they produce is lost due to post harvest losses. It does not get to the market. We need to push that rather than governors continue to compete to take loans to build airports that are not necessary where they have other airports so close to them or governors now computing to build flyovers all over the place and we applaud them. They should concentrate on building rural roads so that the farmer can at least get their product to the market. And about fresh news updates.