According to the National Bureau of Statistics, these 10 states are the poorest in Nigeria with over 70% poverty rate.

A survey carried out on the bureau’s website, disclosed that Sokoto remains the poorest state in Nigeria with an 81.2% poverty rate.

1. Sokoto
Sokoto has unfriendly climate conditions with temperature going as high as 45C on a normal day. Most parts of the state are rural areas and over eighty percent (80%) of the inhabitants of Sokoto practice one form of agriculture or another.

2. Katsina
Katsina is a state in North central Nigeria and has the highest poverty prevalence among all states in the region.

3. Adamawa
Formed in 1991 from the extinct Gongola state, Adamawa has of late been terrorized by the Boko Haram terrorists, disrupting it's economic development and growth.

4. Gombe
Gombe is another North eastern state which suffers sporadic attacks from terrorists.

5. Jigawa
Jigawa state is situated in the north-western part of the country. It is mostly populated by the Hausa/Fulani, who are spread throughout the state. It has a 74.1 percent poverty rate.

6. Plateau
Plateau state is the twelfth largest state of Nigeria haunted by some terrorist attacks and tribal clashes from time to time, especially clashes between Fulani herdsmen and it's inhabitants.

7. Ebonyi
Ebonyi is the only south-eastern state among the top 9 poorest country.

8. Bauchi
In Hausa the word Bauchi meansthe land of freedom and tourism. However recent Boko Haram adventures in the area, though few, have driven tourists away from the area.

9. Kebbi
It is bordered by Sokoto State, Niger State,Dosso Regionin the Republic of Niger and the nation of Benin. The recently concluded Sir Ahmadu Bello International
Airport (SABIA), stands out as one of Nigeria’s most sophisticated airports and is expected to boost the state’s economy.

10. Zamfara
Recently the governor was blasted for the “alarming scope of economic dangers and it's potential threat to the economic development of the state,” by the Zamfara Budget Working Group.

Niger is the state with the lowest poverty rate which is 33.8%. It was followed by Osun (37.9%) and Ondo (45.7%).

Bayelsa (47%) and Lagos (48.6%) have less than 50% poverty rate.

The average poverty rate in the Northwest geopolitical zone is 71.4%, which remained the highest in the said area.

It is followed by the Northeast region which has 69.1% and the North central region which has 60.7%. Poverty was least dominant in the Southwest (49.8%), South-South (55.5%), and South-East regions (59.5%).


https://www.naij.com/401470-see-the-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria.html

hmmmmmm

Despite all the money being owned by stinkingly rich Northerners, they still lag behind. Other regions should be grateful for the absence of quick cash for grabs and a favourable environment. They've been able to collectively lift themselves above the average Northerner.

Although Ebonyi and other places on the list are states, not countries. OP take note

I know northern state will dominates the list

watch how ipob juvenile delinquents dispute these facts as Yoruba propaganda.
Yorubas have the highest middle class citizens in the country,poverty has no place in southwest,we don't have to become drug mules before we feed.
the flat.heads below are already in epileptic fit over the stats.
its not our fault that our region has no pauper unlike yours.
it show why they are always packed in buses to get their daily bread from the west.

The question to ask is could things get any worth?
If 71% of northerners are living in poverty that means only 29% are well taken care of by the oil money. With the way the northerners are been insulted about oil money one would think they are fed for free.

you mean Ebonyi or Borno?

That Sokoto own worst self
Some years ago, I travel go there
I buy food but no fit eat am
If you see as those little children dey count each base of rice for my throat
I almost cry
North Nigeria worst

Yoruba are very funny...concocting this useless stats. Ebonyi is way richer than Osun and Ekiti.

7. Ebonyi Ebonyi is the only south-eastern state among the top 9 poorest country. Poorest country?.... Op is mad. for now Ebony is richer than Borno joor

Intellect20:
Yoruba are very funny...concocting this useless stats. Ebonyi is way richer than Osun and Ekiti.

It's not talking about state government money, but highest concentration of poor people.

Governors need to do more to shore up their revenue base. Going cap in hand to Abuja at the end of every month has made many governors intellectually lazy.
I await the time when performance in office will not be measured by the number of boreholes a governor sinks but by the number of people he is able to lift out of poverty.

Mischievous op went and pulled off an article written a year ago.

Mc4larin:

2. Katsina
Katsina is a state in North central Nigeria and has the highest poverty prevalence among all states in the region.

Katsina is in the north west.

Generally, statistics or anything involving numbers about Nigeria boggles me, even when it was published by credible source or the govt itself, there is always deliberate concentration of gargantuan padding.

Another thing that freaks me out is the large chunk of dumb online mythomaniacs with no iota of morals or decency bombarding the cyber space with ridiculously pathetic lies every second hoping to increase their adsense earnings on their Oyinbo dashed open-sourced free templated websites.

Would it kill this idiots to take a moment googling and articulating the lie to be a bit more sellable? What manner of lunatic will sum findings about whole state in just two lines?

EazyMoh:

It's not talking about state government money, but highest concentration of poor people.

That's even far worse...yoruba are poorer as individuals since they are mostly civil servants. How many yorubs can afford to send their children to private schools? Most private schools are mostly Igbos since they have disposable income from business. Yoruba don't have disposable income...they live paycheck to paycheck!

Wow! Zamfara has done it again... I cry for my state...

fairy tale

Intellect20:


That's even far worse...yoruba are poorer as individuals since they are mostly civil servants. How many yorubs can afford to send their children to private schools? Most private schools are mostly Igbos since they have disposable income from business. Yoruba don't have disposable income...they live paycheck to paycheck!

na wah o

the best private schools(primary, secondary and tertiary) are all in SW Yoruba land(google up).

How come it's igbos that can afford it? If so, then it must mean that there are millions of igbos in Yoruba land. But if we say that, you people will still deny by saying you guys don't got to Yoruba land.

Na wah for unable lies o. You guys Prolly think you are gods.

Intellect20:


That's even far worse...yoruba are poorer as individuals since they are mostly civil servants. How many yorubs can afford to send their children to private schools? Most private schools are mostly Igbos since they have disposable income from business. Yoruba don't have disposable income...they live paycheck to paycheck!

I have always that the concocted stats that ibos are more intelligent was a waste of time and was,indeed a TV news nothing more.

You people argue Base on emotions and hatred. Nothing more.you don't engage brain -nothing. You just pull off stats from you head.

Anyway, you can feed on this for the benefit of the doubts...
Luuubiiish

REGIONAL AVERAGES
1 = South West - 19.3% Poverty (+ Average)
2 = South South - 25.2% Poverty (+ Average)
3 = South East - 27.36% Poverty (+ Average)


http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/ophi/index.php/


http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria/publication/nigeria-economic-report-improved-economic-outlook-in-2014-and-prospects-for-continued-growth-look-good

THIS IS FROM NBS

Poverty was least dominant in the Southwest (49.8%), South-South (55.5%), and South-East regions (59.5%).
Read more: https://www.naij.com/401470-see-the-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria.html

Intellect20:


That's even far worse...yoruba are poorer as individuals since they are mostly civil servants. How many yorubs can afford to send their children to private schools? Most private schools are mostly Igbos since they have disposable income from business. Yoruba don't have disposable income...they live paycheck to paycheck!

OK you are disputing a recognized body for statistics based on your sentiments. Good luck with that.

Intellect20:


That's even far worse...yoruba are poorer as individuals since they are mostly civil servants. How many yorubs can afford to send their children to private schools? Most private schools are mostly Igbos since they have disposable income from business. Yoruba don't have disposable income...they live paycheck to paycheck!

Lol..keep clutching at straws ! The nomads of south cum the poorest rats of the south .

Ebonyi will always find a way to attach its name to any bad list.Daft.

You have successful posted RUBBISH!!!

Intellect20:
Yoruba are very funny...concocting this useless stats. Ebonyi is way richer than Osun and Ekiti.

You people are very funny. you need to travel to Ekiti, Ondo and Osun to come and see wealth; if Govts should fail to pay for years people will survive in those States because of past investment in Cash crops and forestry that fetch millions for each family every year. Ask your people, thousands are migrating to those farms to work, ask them about ikire, Ife, ede, ise, odigbo, ikere, ondo, owo, etc. There is no small town in Ekiti or Osun that doesn't have road or tap water running, this you cannot find in your state yet you are quick to say they are poor. I've lived in every zone in the country; I've lived in every state in the S/East, so don't let me mention how poverty is in those places. l've made wonderful friends everywhere I'd lived.

Mc4larin:
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, these 10 states are the poorest in Nigeria with over 70% poverty rate.

A survey carried out on the bureau’s website, disclosed that Sokoto remains the poorest state in Nigeria with an 81.2% poverty rate.

1. Sokoto
Sokoto has unfriendly climate conditions with temperature going as high as 45C on a normal day. Most parts of the state are rural areas and over eighty percent (80%) of the inhabitants of Sokoto practice one form of agriculture or another.

2. Katsina
Katsina is a state in North central Nigeria and has the highest poverty prevalence among all states in the region.

3. Adamawa
Formed in 1991 from the extinct Gongola state, Adamawa has of late been terrorized by the Boko Haram terrorists, disrupting it's economic development and growth.

4. Gombe
Gombe is another North eastern state which suffers sporadic attacks from terrorists.

5. Jigawa
Jigawa state is situated in the north-western part of the country. It is mostly populated by the Hausa/Fulani, who are spread throughout the state. It has a 74.1 percent poverty rate.

6. Plateau
Plateau state is the twelfth largest state of Nigeria haunted by some terrorist attacks and tribal clashes from time to time, especially clashes between Fulani herdsmen and it's inhabitants.

7. Ebonyi
Ebonyi is the only south-eastern state among the top 9 poorest country.

8. Bauchi
In Hausa the word Bauchi meansthe land of freedom and tourism. However recent Boko Haram adventures in the area, though few, have driven tourists away from the area.

9. Kebbi
It is bordered by Sokoto State, Niger State,Dosso Regionin the Republic of Niger and the nation of Benin. The recently concluded Sir Ahmadu Bello International
Airport (SABIA), stands out as one of Nigeria’s most sophisticated airports and is expected to boost the state’s economy.

10. Zamfara
Recently the governor was blasted for the “alarming scope of economic dangers and it's potential threat to the economic development of the state,” by the Zamfara Budget Working Group.

Niger is the state with the lowest poverty rate which is 33.8%. It was followed by Osun (37.9%) and Ondo (45.7%).

Bayelsa (47%) and Lagos (48.6%) have less than 50% poverty rate.

The average poverty rate in the Northwest geopolitical zone is 71.4%, which remained the highest in the said area.

It is followed by the Northeast region which has 69.1% and the North central region which has 60.7%. Poverty was least dominant in the Southwest (49.8%), South-South (55.5%), and South-East regions (59.5%).


https://www.naij.com/401470-see-the-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria.html

Borno should replace Plateau please...

I refuse to believe the list until Osun state is include.

G

tayebest:
Abeg I heard Ebonyi is also part of Biafra??




shey na true?

ezzi ofia!!!!!

Winner o o o winner x2ce
South west you don win o
Winner
Patapata u go win 4eva..
Haters u fit go and die oo

The transformation of gombe between 1999 and presently is so unbelievable that I respect their leadership

krazykoons:
watch how ipob juvenile delinquents dispute these facts as Yoruba propaganda.
Yorubas have the highest middle class citizens in the country,poverty has no place in southwest,we don't have to become drug mules before we feed.
the flat.heads below are already in epileptic fit over the stats.
its not our fault that our region have no pauper unlike yours.
it show why they are always packed in buses to get their daily bread from the west.

oko oro we dnt hv to become drug mules b4 we feed.