₦airaland Forum

Poverty in Nigeria by region according to World Bank

SW = 16%
SE = 28.8%
NW = 45.9%
NE = 50.2%


"While the South of Nigeria has relatively low poverty rates, ranging from 16% in the South West to 28.8% in the South East, poverty rates in the North West and North East are 45.9% and 50.2%, respectively. While the South of Nigeria (especially the South West) has experienced a strong positive dynamic in poverty reduction in recent years, the poverty rate in the North West has remained stagnant, while poverty has actually increased in the North East. Thus, disparities between the North (North West, North East) and South of Nigeria in poverty and living standards have increased. This is no doubt related to the recent security challenges in the Northern part of Nigeria. Explanatory factors for the high differences in living standards by geographical region are likely related to differences in the provision of public services and the degree of connectedness to larger markets. "

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

The North is really messed up with all their potentials.

xtrorry:
Your delusion is that you think a butterfly supposedly acting smart is a bird!

Now run along, miserable butt-licker!

Seen.

xtrorry:
See epic misery from a guilty conscient!

Who brought silly war stories on this tread?

Hopeless bigotry!

Guilt is when one is party to an act. Maybe you should think of something more apt.

I told the op the same thing. There was a war and with that are victors and vanquished. Move the $uck on.

xtrorry:
Ah, you may soon go the way of your god...

Have you forgotten that soon after the civil war how you wicked bigots and hypocrites connived and robbed Easterners of their hard earned money in banks and gave £20 to only those who could prove they had bank accounts?

You parasitic ingrates proceeded to use the stolen funds to buy up the numerous companies established by the colonial masters, looting the companies and rendering them bankrupt. And that was the beginning of the collapse of the Nigerian economy. Till date the economy is yet to recover.

Instead of developing the Eastern region after the war subsequent evil governments diverted Gowon’s 3Rs to your regions for rapid development while neglecting and under-developing the Eastern region.

https://www.nairaland.com/2847624/biggest-steel-factory-west-africa

MDG for SE: https://www.nairaland.com/2785068/biafra-struggle-disgruntled-elements/3

https://www.nairaland.com/2851265/jude-nkama-appointed-judge-new
http://www.onlineleaks247.com/index.php/2016/01/08/photos-nigerian-makes-history-in-the-us-as-the-first-appointed-african-judge-in-new-jersey/

https://www.nairaland.com/2760376/ernest-obiejesi-donates-world-class

https://www.nairaland.com/2550536/reflection-ndiigbo-eastern-region#37305184

https://www.nairaland.com/2767644/anambra-state-billionaires-state-highest

https://www.nairaland.com/2724451/dominance-igbo-tribe-nigeria-football

https://www.nairaland.com/2729734/must-see-airplane-constructed-nigerian

https://www.nairaland.com/2690726/looking-top-30-richest-nigerians

FYI, Imo airport was built by the people of Imo state; almost everyone contributed even little kids to make the airport a reality.

Acknowledge the simple fact that Igbos fare better than your tribe despite your numerous treasury lootings and federal government presence. The Igbos have the highest concentration of middle-class citizens while squalor and penury pervade your enclaves. You can see the reality in the shocking manner many of your States are in comatose with many of its civil servants surviving on the good gestures of concerned Nigerians.

FYI, the Igbo States are the least affected by the falling crude oil earnings. Go and ask Fayose why Ekiti government had to send some of its citizens to the SE to learn a skill/trade in a bid to grow the economy of Ekiti State.

Feed your eyes and stop being mischievous and bitter that a people you defrauded and cheated are doing excellently and even competing on the world stage:

https://www.nairaland.com/2576371/eastern-neighbourhoods-streets-made

https://www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statistics

http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pages/download/254
https://www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment

https://www.nairaland.com/2522113/omitted-truth-debunking-lies...nigeria-states

https://www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statistics

https://www.nairaland.com/2690726/looking-top-30-richest-nigerians

https://www.nairaland.com/2671323/anambra-students-win-science-exhibition

https://www.nairaland.com/503406/nigerian-student-achieves-best-2010

https://www.nairaland.com/2613463/igbos-most-brilliant-black-african
The full study can be found here:
http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

https://www.nairaland.com/2614116/uzoamaka-aduba-wins-emmy-role#38226903
 
https://www.nairaland.com/2658131/biafra-urhobo-eulogizes-igbo-says

https://www.nairaland.com/2638157/igbo-appreciation-thread


Failures? You only wish. Try harder

https://www.nairaland.com/2691418/photos-igbo-village-built-virginia

All these are good if it will develop the SE and reduce the flight of easterners to the west. I'd love for all regions of the country to be developed so the citizens will have choices like it is over in developed countries. The East can be California and the west New York. All is well in the hood country.

Just don't bring st.upid war stories that none of us are involved in.

anticabal1:
Was angela merkel and the current germans involved during hitler's genocide against the jews? You are not yet to have a truly truthfully united nigeria that you crave for so badly. Let's keep deceiving ourselves and shouting one nigeria with fake smiles. na u sabi.

Hitler fought the defenseless jews with the goal of exterminatimg them. The jews did not fight Hitler nor capable of ordinary self defense.

There was war between Nigeria and a breakaway province. Both sides fought with bad intentions and one side won. If victory went the Biafran way would we be having this conversation?

Learn the difference and stop making false analogies.

Olabestonic001:
On behalf of the Yoruba's (both supportive and non-supportive of my statement here), I apologize for the cruelty of the Civil War. To all my Igbo friends, I'm very sorry for the Red War that turned the beauty of humanity to savagery, the brilliancy of our hearts to criminality and the piety of the human race to villainity.
Please, every Igbo reading this, pardon the Yoruba's; I personally ask present an unreserved apology. I know some will not like my apology and others still have the rights to be hateful. For such people, pls, pardon the Yoruba's. May we all find the heart to say sorry to the recipients of the brunts of the Civil War.

Nijabazaar, find a place in your heart to forgive the Yoruba's. GOD bless the Igbo's and GOD bless Nigeria.

There were casualties on both sides and either side could have won.

I was not involved in the civil war nor any war and I bear no hatred in my heart towards any tribe. I don't interact or conduct business carrying a burden that is not my own. I speak for myself and my family. Kapish.

anticabal1:
If all the jews and germans lived in the same country. I'm sure they'll hold hands and sing kumbaya like nothing ever happened without seeking restitution with hitler's face gracing the face of their currency notes.

Useless analogy.

nijabazaar:
If you read my commentary wella I said that the book coupled with other experiences had pushed me to generalize , see him almost in every one...yes...but my mind has always revolted.


I don't think Achebe was bitter he was just telling history without wearing a tinted spectacle.

I won't waste too much time on Achebe's book. Professional and non-Nigerian critics with no vested interests on the issue have already done enough justice on the book with the inherent bias. No fault of Achebe's, since he lived through the bitter times. He only knows his pains so I won't dwell on it any longer.

You on the other hand have been opportuned to chart your own course based on daily interactions with Nigerians. It's time we demonstrate that, us Nigerians, have a responsibility to elevate the black race. Of what use is our intellect when all we do can't be differentiated from what the folks in Rwanda did.

Different courts.

nijabazaar:
I often hear stories up here in UK of what happened during Awolowos regime and his scorch earth policy...I used to think it was all exaggerations and stuff until I read the book There was a country....that book changed my perspective to the point of Boiling with hate....

I wish I'd never touched the book. I have good Yoruba fends. one is a bosom friend. But each time I see him, I must confess...narratives of the book swell up in me.

Some say Achebe shouldn't have but why sweep thangz under the carpet.....A million children...

You read a book about a man, Awolowo, and you now see him in every Yoruba person! Isn't that the definition of insanity?

Do you see Donald Trump in every American? Hitler in every German? Pol Pot in every Cambodian or Leopold in every Belgian?

Even the mischievous Achebe himself, the author of the controversial book, married his daughter to a yoruba man. Don't live your life based on other people's prejudice, experiences and ulterior motives. Achebe was bitter till he met his death. Your own experience should count for something.

Solitary confinement beacons.

mrvitalis:
NLNG has proven that government don't need to run a business they own majority of
That's what am talking off
Government need to invest money... companies run the business for them and they audit it That's will ensure fast money to run the government.. .. Clear the government dept the private companies can then buy off the farms

I am a capitalist to the core. I don't believe in the government running businesses aside from anything to do with national security and federal agencies. Businesses should be ran by efficient entrepreneurs and government should create a level playing field using government instruments and agencies to keep them in check. NLNG is not an effective model. We are still flaring gas like no tomorrow, something an entrepreneur would have used to cure our energy deficit.

baralatie:
It is not "development" projects.it is "road" and rail projects(linking).
But have you seen PMB budget spending,very somehow!
Agric is not seen as a game changer in his eco outlook

Roads, which fall under infrastructure is still considered development projects. Workers will be hired and economy will improve due to a better transportation network. We can ship goods cheaply and more efficiently, thus, reducing waste and cost. US interstate highways is one of the catalyst for their supergrowth.

To be honest I have not paid attention to what was budgeted for agriculture. I believe we'll get better execution for such in the state level. States understand their terrain and people more than the federal government. In theory, states should also be more efficient with funds than federal government.
I would be shocked if they do not continue with Adesina's policies.

baralatie:
Some of your suggestions are in place but agricultural development is a plan and plan are
Short,medium and long!
What this administration needs is a good economic team that can
Plan,design eco models of growth and deliver growth!

For example,what are the present challenges
a,dollar income
b,petroleum products needs
c,power needs
d,rice wage import bill
e,road infrastructure
f,employment
g,GDP economic growth!

Even with this small highlight,it is rather uncalled for that PMB administration is giving excuses

They are in place but what is the track record of its execution?

All our infrastructural deficits will not dissappear overnight so no need to formulate stuff when there are plans to fix them. Main issue now is execution and for that we need a serious and commited government.

The interim solution before everything falls in place is going back to reliable Keynesian economics. Government spending on development projects and the reason I support borrowing as long as it's not for recurrent expenditure.

OfoIgbo:
no doubt there is a depreciation of Igbo gene pool going on at the moment, but my disappointment is not so much in the physical. Of course everyone knows that Igbo ladies are by far, more appealing than Yoruba ladies. We must not forget that it is God that gave the Yoruba their physical features.

I suppose my disappointment comes from the fact that I am not impressed by the Yoruba inward content of character. Remember these people starved millions of our people to death without showing remorse for it. Look at what is currently going on in a Lagos market where a whole state government demolished billions of naira worth of goods without blinking. Now I find their attitude deplorable.

So really we have a situation where I find them hoth physically below par, and inwardly less than desired

Love can cure your frustrations

Lolz

baralatie:
Not so fast

Biko?

mrvitalis:
We need money to run the government.. .. Agriculture produce fast money.. . And the LNG is a success story

We need agriculture fast but governments are the worst business managers. They will turn it to another bureaucracy and it will get ran down. Let government give incentives to business men interested in farming so they can run it profitably.

Areas where government can help:

1. Low interest loans for farmers
2. Access to cheap forex for any farmer willing to import processing machines and equipment for mechanized farming
3. Creation of trading boards so the farmers can have easy Avenue to export and earn forex
4. Training farmers on latest farming practices and trends
5. Banning imports of any agricultural products we can grow here. Total ban.
6. Give easy access to fertilizers
7. Creating standards boards to make sure our produce meets export standard

Etc etc

cheruv:
Pls stop deceiving yourself
Igbos and Yorubas don't have anything in common... Starting from language to culture to everything. The only people have something in common are the Mmoño

You can tell that to the US Marines or the lovely couple we are celebrating on this page. In the end, love wins.

wholexy009:
Yorubas and Igbos are not enemies after all

Highest number of inter tribal marriages in Nigeria are between those two groups. Ignore all the stuff you read online. We have a lot in common.

This is a major blow to the wailers.

Cry me a river.

The world powers officially support Bubu's war. I mean they acknowledged his fight in bleeping DAVOS! The biggest global economic platform!

Huge!!!

We don "did" it again. The demons uniting Nigeria since 3000BC.

mrvitalis:
Government can set up this farms..Run them for five years when the private companies are ready they sale them off..... ....
The LNG is a good model to follow.. .. Government can own 80% but allow the company that owns 20% to run it and government supervise
Nigerian government need cash .... and I see quick cash in the agricultural industry

That's the bane of our problem. The role of the government is not to setup and run farms. It's to create an enabling environment for entrepreneurs to run farms. Government can subsidize farmers especially those interested in mechanized and large scale operation, but asking for government to setup and run anything is an invitation for continous failure and looting. Haven't you learnt anything from NNPC and different comatose parastatals?

When will you people realize how difficult it is to act fast in a democracy with varying interests? This is not government by military decree or fiat. You have different interests both good and bad. You just don't wake up and declare this or that.

momentum85:
IPOB members have now bn declared 'wanted' na wa ooo! 8 lives lost in Aba protest on Monday ds week just like that and nobody cares, When 'll d world come to Biafran's rescue?

Ask yourself what the world did when 100,000 to 3 million Biafrans got killed? When you answer that question you'll sit up and stop waiting on the world.

Gbawe:
Thank you very much. I wonder why some cannot deploy simple logic to see what is obvious before they bore us with the redundant dollar to naira rate argument they think indicts Buhari of poor performance. While at it, these folks should tell us what has happened to oil price in the past 1 year and the specific economic problem a mono economy like Nigeria, reliant on oil as it main earner and source of foreign currency, will face when its main export is becoming more worthless by the day. Honestly the naira to dollar argument is so incredibly stupid, given the issues Nigeria is facing, I personally feel anyone who cites it is a child not worth taking seriously. Is it Buhari's fault Nigeria is a mono economy, with a moribund SME sector, extremely vulnerable to drastically falling price of crude? The article below is from 2014 when oil was selling for $68.00 per barrel. What miracle will an adult of sound mind then expect today that oil price is around $27.00 per barrel?


http://www.wsj.com/articles/nigerias-tumbling-currency-a-victim-of-falling-oil-prices-1417535209

Thank you.

People just refuse to use their brains or they are simply obtuse.

I really can't choose between 1 and 2 in terms of how heinous their acts are.

#3 is only for occasional Lolz

gomzy121:
but if I may ask why do men shade truth
can't u stand out and be sincere for once
can't you see that what u have wrote up is the
reverse for this country?
don't u know what dollar is now to naira?
are u draft or are u just kidding?
just a question though
NO HATING

Nobody can reverse the trend of our exchange rate. You are not going to automatically swing the pendulum and give Nigeria non-oil exports overnight. Learn to live with it and reduce your appetite for foreign made finished goods if you want to stem the tide.

Enough with the useless expectations.

You made some points but your conjecture ruined the writeup. Example, tell me where in the SW that an ijebu man is discriminated against or called a leper?

[quote author=Tycike post=42192017][/quote]Yorubas weren't given much in the last administration so the opportunities to loot and the scale of looting from that section was mostly at the state level.

since1914:
This is a brilliant piece, and it is a debate that we would be having as a country, sooner or later considering the current state of the Naira.

Unfortunately, there is also another side to the writer's narrative. While, I do concede that some Nigerians are 'bandwagon consumers' who buy thing simply because of their neighbours are buying. We must also take a very critical look at Nigerian businesses and the quality of the products and services they churn out. Money is very difficult to come by these days, and people would always want to have full value for their money. Therefore Nigerians should not be blackmailed into patronising Nigerian businesses just to fulfill some nationalistic objective, rather should only do so if it gives them value for their money.

Most Nigerian businesses have not understood the importance of building solid brands, hence cannot yet compete with their foreign counterparts. They always aim to meet a supposed 'Nigerian standard', rather attain global best practices that will guarantee them a place on store shelves. If Globalcom for instance did not meet those standards, it would not have survived a single day in Ghana or any of the other countries where it operates. Every Nigerian company that wants to be taken seriously, must wake up and start acting like a global brand, because government cannot keep protecting them in perpetuity, there has to be a timeline after which the markets will be liberalised. Dangote has built a global brand from Nigeria, so what excuse do they have not to do same. When we heap invectives on Shoperite and Spar because they are foreign brands, we must also realise that there are several Nigerian companies and banks doing business abroad as well.

I recently met a foreigner in his mid thirties, whose family own chains of manufacturing businesses in Nigeria. He told me his father was born in Nigeria, and his grandparents moved here long before independence. Eventhough his father and grandfather have passed on, the family businesses kept expanding. That says a lot about Nigerian businesses. How many family businesses in Nigeria have survived the family 'war of inheritance'.

If we were patriotic consumers, quality and standards will bow to the laws of demand and supply. People will naturally demand more for locally produced quality goods versus competition and others will be forced to step up standards. And if government agencies like SON weren't corrupt they'd also play a part in enforcing minimum standards of quality.

Cold hard facts. This article is biting and thought provoking. It really rings true in almost everything.

We all have our parts to play in the recovery. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time we'll be here. We survived prior oil price shocks just to come off worse with our Kolo mentality.