 The newly appointed country director for Action 8 Nigeria, Andrew Memodou, has called for closer partnership with the media on the fight to eradicate poverty in Nigeria. Mamadou made a call in Abuja on Tuesday during a media interaction with editors and bureau chiefs of media organizations on ways to strengthen cordial relationship with civil society groups in the country, particularly the Action 8 Nigeria. It says the mission and vision of the organization is to form a united front and to hold government accountable in all fronts of human endeavors. This meeting is looking at working with media executives, bureau chiefs and editors of various media organizations to unveil the plan of Action 8 in the nearest future in the next five years. So, being a new country director, we are looking at poverty is real, the ratio of poverty is real in Nigeria. One to three million is not, it's more than 70% of our legal rights and we are saying, what do we do to eradicate poverty? These persons are major stakeholders in the Nigerian ecosystem. While responding to questions from media representatives, Mamadou reeled out his plans which includes re-strategizing on ways to further improve relationship with the media and the assurance that its activities will not only be visible in the national but at the sub-national levels too. How do we get to target one million businesses real-time that are in the rural community, that are in hard-to-reach locations? And these persons, they are targeted in such a way that their businesses expand, they can employ an average of five more persons. That gives us at least six persons. For us, education is key. We are working, like I said, with several agencies around how do we deal with the issue of education for all, particularly in the rural community. All the feedback you are giving us is in line with the vision and we are ready to deliver, like the country right now said. How are those accountable? The next one here asks us, how far have you gone on your milestones? With this, I want to say a big thank you for making time to be here and we hope that this is the beginning of the partnership. We are taking note of all the advice you have given and the recommendations. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.