tartar9:
In addition, do you know that only in the South East do we have a state in the South (Ebonyi state) that has as much poverty rate as Northern states. Now you know.
I still have a feeling that the North inflates it's poverty statistics.

Ebony state much better in human capita than most states in the north

Bighead9 you almejiris made this country the porvety capital of world, just look at the percentage 87% in a country of 200 million

This report is not saying anything new. This is a common knowledge unless we want to deceive ourselves as a country.

jimyjames:
Bighead9 you almejiris made this country the porvety capital of world, just look at the percentage 87% in a country of 200 million

Another liess and propaganda.

The result is what they are battling now BOKO HARAM and BANDITRY

The major factor that caused this is low level or no education at all , therefore the education should made necessary in the North.

MrStan11:


I always laugh when people think that your zone producing president would better the life of people in that area.
We have a weak institution that was build along tribal and religious line.
That's why Osibanjo is deputizing Buhari,
Peter Obi deputizing Atiku.


North is lucky that Nigeria has not separated.
With this their Boko haram of a thing, Isis will turn to Africa once they are dislodge from Syria,
So 87% poverty rate is even a good rate to compare to what the future beholds.







The only solution is not Building flyover but making 80% of their budget go into Basic Education and Secondary Schools. Not Universities.

Anyway what do I know?

I absolutely agree with you. Sort out the basic things first before trying anything sophisticated. Basic and compulsory education for all, creation of skill acquisition centers.
We must create inclusive opportunities for all.

A key factor that keeps poverty high in Nigeria is lack of access to finance. I strongly believe poverty in the south would have diminished so much should the youths and young adults have access to finance that could help their various initiatives in business and entrepreneurship.

One key point however that we easily overlook in Nigeria is the fact that states and local governments are not doing anything to empower the people but just incentivize them for electioneering purposes. Most financial commitments to poverty alleviation is cash based and what do a poor man do with money more than to eat!

Many youths and young adults in the northern states can still work on the farm if government focus on farming. Uneducated people can still learn to drive tractors or harvesters, can work in food factories etc but government is rather waiting for allocation from the federal and so 37(FCT Inclusive) states are waiting for their monthly handouts draining their creativity on how to confront their problems

The people with the lowest poverty are most probably the Igbo because majority are into buying and selling and that also has had negative impact on productivity of the country. For Nigeria to stamp out poverty people must engage in value creating activities including small scale manufacturing like we have in Nnewi, Aba, Ibadan and around Lagos and Kano. Youths must be able to access capital to drive their initiatives to generate value. I often frank at how cabals in the banking sector have cornered opportunities to themselves because whether we accept it or not, you may praise Sanusi Lamido as good CBN Governor, we are still reeling from the poverty that resulted from mass purge in the banking industry during his tenure. The spiral effects still plague the southern part of the country till today coupled with inimical policies that is yet to liberate micro financing after removal of community banks. We should reduce entry barrier to those who may be interested in financing youths initiatives, why must I have 100million to start a microfinance bank? what is micro about 100million? why can't we have Assets Financing Companies and real micro lenders with just a million naira even half a million. If for instance, i intend to fund market women selling vegetables, lending them 50,000 naira can change their lives. Why must our policies in the areas of finance be like Europe or China? Until we realize that strong commitment to taking people out of poverty is in our hands we should prepare for an explosive situation that will consume even the perceived secured rich people.

We can tackle poverty by also de-emphasizing inimical cultural norms like marrying four wives, women not working etc and focus on what we have that we can use to move forward, the first I will say is land, even the oil we emphasize so much we don't own the technology but we can start from where our strengths lie which is the land is ours, we have population that can farm, then the question is, how do we get them to work on the farm. From the farm we can look at storage, transports, transformation, selling, exports etc.

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I always laugh when people think that your zone producing president would better the life of people in that area.
We have a weak institution that was build along tribal and religious line.
That's why Osibanjo is deputizing Buhari,
Peter Obi deputizing Atiku.


North is lucky that Nigeria has not separated.
With this their Boko haram of a thing, Isis will turn to Africa once they are dislodge from Syria,
So 87% poverty rate is even a good rate
to compare to what the future beholds.



I was almost going to agree with you not until you mentioned poverty rate 87%.
I am optimistic in Nature yes even in reality considering the little structure we have on ground for instance MSME clinic which is aimed at helping Enterpreneurs and small scale business owners (Note that they contribute to national income) with sistency the poverty rate will drop.

Bighead9:


Another liess and propaganda.

Continue consoling yourself in that IDP camp

tartar9:

You guys don't ask wether they would have been worse off if they hadn't welded that much political power
Anyways,the seat goes to the SW come 2023- cursed or not

Does that decrease the poverty and illiteracy rate in the North?

It's because democracy is a numbers game. Remember that idiot politician from Kano State who was boasting about having 4 wives and 27 children? He is just a typical northerner. By the time you have millions of uneducated, illiterate people living that kind of life, they will always be easy to manipulate by a ruling elite. That is the story of Northern Nigeria.

khingTony:
it not surprising

what's surprising is the fact that this region is so backward, yet, they dictate what happens in this country.

Lies and propaganda from Punch Newspaper?

Bighead9:


Another liess and propaganda.

Why won't they?Even their leaders reason like Animals the other day one of their house of Representative member was boosting of having 27 children and still boosting of having more,I keep asking myself what if this man die what will be the faith of those children.

And still the so called sophisticated people are still their beloved slaves..
Mufutaus and mumunis indeed


Lzaa

GMbuharii:
And still the so-called sophisticated people are still their beloved slaves..
Mufutaus and mumunis indeed


Lzaa

This is not funny anymore! You kind always like to project their inferiority complex on others, the only slave here are those that believe the north is some kind of superhuman

GMbuharii:
And still the so called sophisticated people are still their beloved slaves..
Mufutaus and mumunis indeed


Lzaa

Simplyleo wee say it's ipob statistics

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Seem So.

IF SO THEN WHY ARE THE YORUBAS WORSHIPING THE NORTH ??

Awol1:
Congratulations to the north then.

87% poverty rate in your domain. Which means paltry 13% is left to be shared by the East, West and South.

Yet you guys with your born-to-rule mentality wouldn't mind voting a cow into power so long as he's a nortberner instead of someone with the capacity to better your lots.

My anger is that some who are educated also put themselves in this self delusion helping to 0subjugate the illiterate multitude with tribe and religion.

Believe me, if this country breaks today, the poor will eat the rich in the north.

Ndi born-to-rule, dalukwanu!

www.nairaland.com/attachments/6432793_screenshot20171219094227_jpege074d484d588f157559d133a2d470290

We know.

That's why they like holding on to power at all cost.

What they failed to know is that only the south can help them


Look at how Jonathan was transforming their education system
Until the dullard took over and nothing is heard of it again

Maxymilliano:
Poverty is headquartered in the north, illiteracy is in the north, insurgency and insecurity is a way of life in the north, children left to fend for themselves in the north, almost everything negative indices is from the north yet, the region has produced Presidents and Head of States more than any other regions.

I guess they enjoy poverty and primitive way of living than civilization.

This is ridiculous.

Blu03

Simplyleo and MelesZenawi will blame IPOB and call this fake news

Very true

yet keep fucking like dogs

The North accounted for 87 per cent of all the poor people in Nigeria in 2016, the World Bank has disclosed in a new report.

The report titled ‘Advancing social protection in a dynamic Nigeria’, released on January 28, 2020, was described as a ‘detailed analysis of the social protection sector’ in the country.

The report noted that social protection measures implemented by the government in Nigeria had not been able to address the high level of poverty, as well as the negative impact of conflicts and natural disasters.

In the comprehensive report, obtained by one of our correspondents, the World Bank observed that although Nigeria was a richly endowed country, it had a larger proportion of the world’s extreme poor than any other nation.

The report further noted that most of the poor in Nigeria were found in the Northern part of the country.

The North-West, specifically, was described as home to almost half of all the poor in the country.

Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, (retd.), is from Katsina, a state in the North-West, which like other parts of the North, has produced a larger proportion of Nigerian leaders.

Looking at inequality in the country, the report said, “Nigeria experiences high inequality along geographic lines, with poverty mostly concentrated in the North and in rural areas.

“Poverty in the northern regions of the country has been increasing, especially in the North-West zone.

“Almost half of all the poor lived in the North-West and the North accounts for 87 per cent of all the poor in the country in 2016.”

“Poverty rates in the southern zones were around 12 per cent with little variation across zones. The South-South zone saw the most significant drop in poverty from 2011-2016.

“Poverty was significantly higher in rural areas of the country in 2016. An estimated 64 per cent of all poor lived in rural areas and 52 per cent of the rural population lived below the poverty line in 2016. In contrast, the poverty rate in urban areas remained stable at 16 per cent between 2011 and 2016.”

Painting the picture of a relatively prosperous South and an impoverished North, the report stated, “Regionally, the North lags far behind the South in every human capital outcome. People in the Northern regions are also more vulnerable to falling into poverty.

The report established a link between poverty in the North and the Boko Haram insurgency. According to the World Bank, most of the youth recruited by Boko Haram are jobless, a development which made them more prone to radicalisation.

It noted that the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East since 2014 had created a sense of ‘failed political promise’.

It added, “Disasters and conflict have displaced many Nigerians, especially in the North-East. According to estimates provided by the International Displacement Monitoring Centre, there were more than two million internally displaced persons in Nigeria as of 31 December 2018.

“In 2018 alone, more than 600,000 Nigerians were displaced due to natural disasters and more than 540,000 were displaced due to conflict and violence.

“In the North-East, the emergence of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram since 2014 has not only caused large scaled displacement, but also several incidences of kidnapping, death, and injuries, and the erosion of social contract due to widespread perception of a failed political promise. Poverty and deprivation have played a central role in fostering a social divide.

“The youth used by Boko Haram to partake in the conflict are jobless, without skills, or trades, and are easily susceptible to radicalisation,” the report said.

The World Bank added that besides conflict, climate related factors had caused additional displacement in the North and the Middle Belt regions of the country.

In 2018, flooding affected 80 per cent of the country and triggered more than 600,000 new displacements.

The report said, “Social protection measures in the country are neither well-suited to respond to conflict, nor well-placed to anticipate and mitigate the risks of natural disasters caused by climate change.”

Weak governance, lack of basic infrastructure, poor quality of education, and poor social service delivery, were identified as some of the reasons for the high level of poverty in Nigeria.

According to the report, “Poverty remains high in Nigeria due to its dire social service delivery outcomes and lack of basic infrastructure.

“Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children of primary school age in the world with nine million children out of school.

“There has been little change in vaccination rates over the last 25 years and Nigeria is set to overtake India as the country with most under-five deaths in the world.”

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, recently raised the alarm over the large number of out-of-school children in the North.

The World Bank added that 71 million Nigerians lack access to improved water, while 130 million people do not meet the Millennium Development Goal standards for sanitation.

However, the situation is worse in the North-East and North-West, where only around 25 to 28 per cent of households have access to basic services such as electricity, water, and sanitation.

The World Bank further observed that number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty went up from 2011 to 2016.

The poor in Nigeria lag far behind the rich in every human capital outcome, according to the World Bank Human Capital Index, where Nigeria ranked among the worst seven performers.

It noted that the rate of poverty in Nigeria increased from 35.0 to 38.8 per cent of the total population from 2011 to 2016.

In the same vein, the report pointed out that, despite Nigeria’s middle-income status, almost four out of 10 citizens lived below the national poverty line in 2016.

Between 2011 and 2016, the total number of people living in poverty increased from 57 million to 74 million, the World Bank added.

Commenting on the report, prominent northerners, including ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Alhaji Balarabe Musa and Junaid Mohammed, called for emphasis on education and a change in some cultural practices.

We should change culture that militates against poverty alleviation – Junaid

In separate telephone interviews with one of our correspondents in Abuja, on Monday, Mohammed and Musa said successive administrations had failed to reduce poverty largely because they failed to ensure that funds meant for the poor reach the masses.

Mohammed said, “I have no doubt in my mind that while it is important to concentrate on the economics of fighting poverty, it is important also for people to be sincere and confront those aspects of their culture which are counterproductive in the fight against poverty.What needs to be done is for government to be sincere in tackling poverty.

“Sadly, even the pittance that is allocated to poverty alleviation in this country is being stolen by those in power because they know nothing will happen.

“Unless we have the political will to deal with this issue nothing will change. We must have leaders with sincerity of purpose. One of the tragedies of poverty in this part of the country is sadly the reality of some of our cultural practices which today’s reality cannot support.”

Balarabe Musa links poverty in North to low education level

Musa said the level of poverty was more in the North because of the poor level of western education.

He stated, “The level of education here is certainly lower that what you have in the South. So, definitely, the level of poverty in the North is higher than that of the South. But if we really decide what is poverty, we will find out the difference between the north and the south is relative in terms of poverty.

“When you are talking of the bourgeois sense of poverty which is restricted to the level of empowerment at the higher level, yes you can say there are poorer people in the north than in the south but if you take Nigeria as a whole, the country as a whole is suffering from poverty that of the north is certainly higher.

“Poverty alleviation programmes by successive administrations have failed because they are bourgeois based.”

Atiku attributes North’s poverty to insecurity, lack of education

On his part, Atiku said insecurity, unemployment, lack of skills and lack of education were responsible for the high poverty rate in the North, especially in the North-East and North-West.

Atiku, who spoke through his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe, said businesses would not thrive in an environment that was plagued by insecurity, lack of skills and lack of education.

Atiku said, “It is very clear that the North-East and North-West have a lot of shortcomings when you look at the index of education. So, education is key. It is the fastest vehicle for upward mobility.

“Education is a game-changer. The North -East and North-West are not doing well in that particular sector. That has impacted on the poverty aspect. To move from the threshold where they are now to the next level, there is the need for re-prioritisation of education as the most important sector.

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/87-nigerias-poverty-rate-in-north-world-bank/

Northern Political Leadership must take their "LONG THROAT" from Niger delta crude oil money and Lagos Vat earning and principally deal with the problems that is resulting in the large scale poverty in the north.

TO REDUCE POVERTY IN THE NORTH.

THE NORTH MUST ACCEPT RESTRUCTURING AS THIS WILL OPEN THE SPACE FOR THE PEOPLE TO WORK HARD AND VALUE HARD WORK.

THE NORTH MUST BE PREPARED TO EARNED TRUE NATIONAL WEALTH NOT MONEY FORCEFULLY GOTTEN BY WAY OF FEDERAL ALLOCATION.

For the past 50 years of crude oil exploration in the Niger delta, the north got the LION SHARE by their long stay in government.

But the same north abused the office and never used it to develop their own people.

Individual only siphoned the money and leave the poor in abject poverty.

We All Know.. Where There Is Islam, There Is Rigorous Poverty

Base on logistics

Its the fact, you need to see how these people are living.

The North is the major problem we have in Nigeria.......