The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Beta Edu, has lamented the ministry’s paltry budget allocation, saying it can’t alleviate poverty. She raised the alarm while defending the 2024 budget of the ministry at the National Assembly on Tuesday in Abuja. She lamented before the Senator Idiat Adebule-led Senate Committee on Poverty Alleviation, noting that the sum of N532.5 billion, which represents a 28 per cent increase over the 2023 budget to cushion the effects of inflation, was grossly inadequate. She insisted that the 28 per cent increase in the overhead ceiling is…