According to Senator Shehu Sani from Kaduna State, below are the reasons for extreme poverty in Northern Nigeria.

1. Neglect of Agriculture and dependence on oil revenues;

2. Decadence and collapse of public education;

3. Fatalism;Septic extremism and toxic inter ethnic violence;

4. Abandoning the moral and ethical standards and economic vision and legacies of Ahmadu Bello;

5. Culpability of successive Northern leaders in power;entrenched Handouts culture;

6. Pliant attitudinal incumbrance of refusing to challenge leaders and hold them to account or the Slavery of loyalty or inimical subservience;

7. Decades of systemic marginalization,emasculation and oppression and

8. Institutional contempt for the poor by the regional elites.

Wish the elites will do something about the poverty levels. Its really very bad

The problem in the north is overpopulation caused by mass breeding and neglect of Agriculture....

The Elites are happy to keep it this way... While The masses are naive
Boko Haram can never lack new recruits... Almajiri system will make sure of that...

Hatred for western education