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In a Central Bank of Nigeria document in 2007, then Governor Soludo showed that though most Nigerians are poor, the northern states are more ravaged by poverty. Poverty in Nigeria has a clear northern face as the 10 poorest states in Nigeria are all in the north, with Jigawa State having the terrible record of 95 per cent of its population living in poverty. The Central Bank data also showed that between 1980 and 2004, poverty increased from 13 per cent to 35 per cent of the population of the South-South, 13 per cent to 27 per cent in the South-East, and 13 per cent to 43 per cent in the South-West. Bad as these appalling trends in the south are, the situation in the north is far worse. In the North-Central, poverty ballooned from 36 per cent of the population in 1980, to 72 per cent in 2004. In the North-East, it went from 36 per cent in 1980 to 72 per cent in 2004. For the North-West, the trend was from 38 per cent to 71 per cent. These are frightening trends which have continued unabated. Even The Guardian of August 4, 2009 reported what UNICEF called a 'silent malnutrition emergency' in children in the northern states of Kebbi, Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, Adamawa and Gombe. It is this unrelenting poverty and hopelessness which breeds fanaticism and bigotry like those shown by Boko Haram.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article02//indexn2_html?pdate=100809&ptitle=Caught between <I>Boko Haram</I> and 'Governance <I>Haram</I>'

The Central Bank data also showed that between 1980 and 2004, poverty increased from 13 per cent to 35 per cent of the population of the South-South, 13 per cent to 27 per cent in the South-East, and 13 per cent to 43 per cent in the South-West. Bad as these appalling trends in the south are, the situation in the north is far worse. In the North-Central, poverty ballooned from 36 per cent of the population in 1980, to 72 per cent in 2004. In the North-East, it went from 36 per cent in 1980 to 72 per cent in 2004. For the North-West, the trend was from 38 per cent to 71 per cent.

Dem dey oppress Igbos, the people dey get better and better than their oppressors. Who talk say God no dey??

Nobody got better. Some people just got worse slower than the others.


I must say that during the period I spent in the North, the kind of comfort I saw the people exercising in poverty was unbelievable.

This was during a period where most people down South had the notion that Northern Generals were ruling, therefore the Northerners were enjoying. That was the period they suffered the most under those leaders.

As for Jigawa state, I don't even know what to say. People are suffering O! That's why when I see my people in the Niger Delta cry that they're being marginalized, they are suffering, they are poor, I laugh. When the kind of poverty in Jigawa hits down south, we will start smiling in order to conserve energy to combat hunger.


Poverty is a Northerner. I don't need CBN figures to confirm what I've seen with my own eyes.

nex:


As for Jigawa state, I don't even know what to say. People are suffering O! That's why when I see my people in the Niger Delta cry that they're being marginalized, they are suffering, they are poor, I laugh. When the kind of poverty in Jigawa hits down south, we will start smiling in order to conserve energy to combat hunger.

Dis na the advice of the millennium

@nex

So wetin man go do now- it is really sad a country blessed with so many natural resources but at the same thing starving to death

@blacksta

We have to take our eyes away from what we think the government can do for us and start concentrating on what we can do for ourselves.

Some Local Government Areas have not recieved allocation for about 5 months now due to the credit crunch. This is not a matter of some corrupt leader stole the money, it didn't come at all. Nothing like that has happened to us in the South, yet we cry more than the bereaved North.

Like i said in different threads the PDP is for the detriment of Nigeria.

The north have always been poor, the governments in the South east and South west are becoming PDP states. As long as the PDP are in the governments, the poverty rates will continue to rise especially in the south west, where they are heavy.

Afaukwu:



Dem dey oppress Igbos, the people dey get better and better than their oppressors. Who talk say God no dey??

you sound so DUMB no one got better the north west and south south aren't opressing igbo. The Elite of everytribe are opressing everyone. you are very senseless, igbo leaders who've become PDP are opressing their own people. You sound very stupid,senseless and above all ignorant by pointing out the higher poverty rates of other regions and boasting that the south east is doing better, when its rates have also gotten higher.

Poverty is of the mind,a man can have the whole cash or resources in the world and still be poor,on a wider view,nigeria is an example,poverty in the midst of plenty,

Like the saying goes,in the abundance of water,the fool is thirsty.

nex:

Nobody got better. Some people just got worse slower than the others.


I must say that during the period I spent in the North, the kind of comfort I saw the people exercising in poverty was unbelievable.

This was during a period where most people down South had the notion that Northern Generals were ruling, therefore the Northerners were enjoying. That was the period they suffered the most under those leaders.

As for Jigawa state, I don't even know what to say. People are suffering O! That's why when I see my people in the Niger Delta cry that they're being marginalized, they are suffering, they are poor, I laugh. When the kind of poverty in Jigawa hits down south, we will start smiling in order to conserve energy to combat hunger.


Poverty is a Northerner. I don't need CBN figures to confirm what I've seen with my own eyes.

ND people can only thank God that he endowed them with "liver" (the real difference is that the ND has the highest some of the highest literacy rates in the country). Northerners in poverty believe it is as Allah wishes.
I am shocked that Western Nigeria is second to the North, though.

Beaf:

(the real difference is that the ND has the highest literacy rates in the country).

How did you arrive at that?

@Beaf

Pray tell, how did you arrive at that highest literacy level pronouncement? I beg thee please.

Afaukwu:

How did you arrive at that?

It is based on quota system and common entrance and JAMB results.
You can also observe it in the streets, there is practically nobody in urban areas that does not understand English or can't read.

These are the highest density education states in Nigeria:
Delta, Edo, Akwa-Ibom, Cross-Rivers, Oyo, Lagos , Imo and Anambra States

These are the lowest density states:
Kaduna, Sokoto, Borno, Adamawa, Kano, Niger, Zamfara

Hmmm? You want me to try it?

Tomorrow, I can go to ring road in Benin City and see how many people can read a Newspaper. Then tomorrow, I'll be going to Ogwashi-Uku for the first time. I try that too.

I used to think the South South was the second most illiterate region after the north.

nex:

Hmmm? You want me to try it?

Tomorrow, I can go to ring road in Benin City and see how many people can read a Newspaper. Then tomorrow, I'll be going to Ogwashi-Uku for the first time. I try that too.

I used to think the South South was the second most illiterate region after the north.

Sorry, but thats called ignorance.

This article has some nice graphs, factor in population and do the math http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html

We're ignorant not illiterate? I thought it was the other way round.

literacy has nothing to do with poverty in nigeria there are alot of jobless graduates esp in the west

Afaukwu:

How did you arrive at that?

The highest scores for 2009/10 JAMB all come from the ND. Damn us ND minorities!
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[li]Miss Edem Cross River State (310)[/li]
[li]Friday Obukohwo Delta State (308)[/li]
[li]Moses-Gombo Kuroyefa Bayelsa State (308)[/li]
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Any tribe that has the highest population of Christians will always be on top, mark my word; Christianity brings light and understanding to the simple.

jookco:

Any tribe that has the highest population of Christians will always be on top, mark my word; Christianity brings light and understanding to the simple.

The reverse is the case. Any tribe that has the highest no of Muslims will be at the bottom, because the religion does hold back a sizeable population from being educated such as women, servants etc.

Ibime:

The reverse is the case. Any tribe that has the highest no of Muslims will be at the bottom, because the religion does hold back a sizeable population from being educated such as women, servants etc.

You are only displaying naivity and ignorance here. Auchi people are predominantly muslims, Most yoruba people from Lagos state down to kwara state are muslims, are you now saying they are at the bottom?

ishmael:

You are only displaying naivity and ignorance here. Auchi people are predominantly muslims, Most yoruba people from Lagos state down to kwara state are muslims, are you now saying they are at the bottom?

Juxtaposed against the Christian Yorubas, they are. Check the Jamb stats!

Beaf:

It is based on quota system and common entrance and JAMB results.
You can also observe it in the streets, there is practically nobody in urban areas that does not understand English or can't read.

These are the highest density education states in Nigeria:
Delta, Edo, Akwa-Ibom, Cross-Rivers, Oyo, Lagos , Imo and Anambra States

These are the lowest density states:
Kaduna, Sokoto, Borno, Adamawa, Kano, Niger, Zamfara

Your source with a link please.

It is lovely that my state has the second highest density of educated people, but link please.

Beaf:

Sorry, but thats called ignorance.

This article has some nice graphs, factor in population and do the math http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html

The link referenced is clear on literacy level so dis ya density abi na viscosity dey confuse me.

The funny thing is that the South East are usually taunted as a region where their guys don't go to school yet year in year out their guys enrol more into higher institution than all the other regions.

It seems that very soon if merit is respected you will end up seeing the Igbos dominate the work force from government to private while others are busy playing the hate game and terming every single Igbo man a trader.

poverty and illiteracy in nigeria is a northern phenomenom. Nigeria is ranked among the poorest countries because of this.
a relative who works with neco told me that in Borno state, they have to be begged sometimes, before they come and take their exams.
about 80 - 90 percent of the country's wealth sits in the south.

the only thing they do have is the political power, which is held by their powerful elite and they also have a hold over the nigerian army.

The illitracy level in the north is a weapon used by the elites to weild the direction of National politics. Only a few know whats happening , others just follow without asking why?

Ibime:

Juxtaposed against the Christian Yorubas, they are. Check the Jamb stats!

The earlier statement you are trying to justify is yet fallacious and inaccurate.

muhsin:

The earlier statement you are trying to justify is yet fallacious and inaccurate.

What is fallacious. . . . that a large percentage of muslim women do not pursue education?

Why not counter that argument with stats from Saudi Arabia, Northern Nigeria or any muslim state you wish.

Same Kwara State is nowhere near the level of achievement of any other Yoruba state on any educational index.

Beaf:

It is based on quota system and common entrance and JAMB results.
You can also observe it in the streets, there is practically nobody in urban areas that does not understand English or can't read.

These are the highest density education states in Nigeria:
Delta, Edo, Akwa-Ibom, Cross-Rivers, Oyo, Lagos , Imo and Anambra States

These are the lowest density states:
Kaduna, Sokoto, Borno, Adamawa, Kano, Niger, Zamfara

Not too fast. You may want to tell us the population of SS versus SE as given by the last census. You may want to tell us the populationn of each of the states with high literacy level. The reason why many people would speak broken English in the SS is clear enough: too many different tribes resulting to the fact that a form of universal language has to be adopted. SE and SW have their main languages. I do not know if speaking broken English translates to literacy. Can these people read and write? Based on these, I doubt if SS has a higher relative litearcy rate than SE. Moreover, Cross River is  known to be an educationally-disadvantaged state

i am sure some of the richest nigerians are in the north as well.

Every rich Nigerian is a thief.