No fewer than 25 million Nigerians require humanitarian assistance annually, the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Bernard Doro says. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister stated this on Friday in Calabar at the maiden edition of the meeting of the National Council on Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction. Over 25 million citizens require humanitarian assistance annually, while more than 60 per cent of the population lives in multidimensional poverty. He added that Nigeria’s humanitarian and poverty challenges could no longer be addressed in silos, by isolated actors, or through fragmented interventions. He said the council is the institutional vehicle for delivering the ministry’s vision of One Humanitarian, One Poverty Reduction System.