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NIGERIA'S POVERTY DIVIDES - NORTH & SOUTH
(People Living Below the National Poverty Line)

Average Poverty Rate:
North East — 71.9%
North West — 64.8%
North Central — 42.7%
South East — 42.3%
South South — 21.2%
South West — 12.2%

National Poverty Line — ₦137,430 per year

#Statisense
(World Bank, Nov 2025)

South West is evergreen.
Note:.
The larger part of the 12% poverty are people who came to hustle in the south West.

immaculatesense:
South West is evergreen.
Note:.
The larger part of the 12% poverty are people who came to hustle in the south West.

why do you guys like to lie to yourselves.
South West minus lagos is on par with North East on poverty rate if not more.

Arda1000:
why do you guys like to lie to yourselves.
South West minus lagos is on par with North East on poverty rate if not more.

if not for nairaland bots, I would have cursed your tribe.

Yoruba are doing well, so they should manage their success.

abc115:
NIGERIA'S POVERTY DIVIDES - NORTH & SOUTH
(People Living Below the National Poverty Line)

Average Poverty Rate:
North East — 71.9%
North West — 64.8%
North Central — 42.7%
South East — 42.3%
South South — 21.2%
South West — 12.2%

National Poverty Line — ₦137,430 per year

#Statisense
(World Bank, Nov 2025)

SW,SW,SW...
How many times did I call you?

trutharena:
Yoruba are doing well, so they should manage their success.

It is Grace,sir.

The poverty line should be reviewed.

Arda1000:
why do you guys like to lie to yourselves.
South West minus lagos is on par with North East on poverty rate if not more.

Na me do the post?
Na me put south east for the worst poverty ravaged zone in the south?

Ondo state has the least poverty rate in Nigeria. Go and VERIFY.
Is Ondo also Lagos? Abi no Be South West again?

No Be Juju Juju Be Dat?

The kind fight wey go erupt for here, na only angel Gabriel fit quench am

Make I ready for anyone way go call this Oluwole statistics

Lagos is on fire and on guard for SW.

Lagos economy built by the entire world.

Kundus to SW!

I just love Yorubaland.

Peaceful, economically viable, and a superior culture.

Apart from Ebonyi, and maybe Enugu, every other Southeast is among top 10 states in Nigeria.

So how come has same poverty rate with North Central?

Can we see the link to the said World Bank report because this statistics trash.

The poverty line is a joke. How can it be less than 400 a day?

immaculatesense:
Na me do the post?
Na me put south east for the worst poverty ravaged zone in the south?

Ondo state has the least poverty rate in Nigeria. Go and VERIFY.
Is Ondo also Lagos? Abi no Be South West again?

No Be Juju Juju Be Dat?

tell that to people who have never left Ogbomosho ;.
Look around you?
Go to your stinking ghettos then enter motor and tour around South East and you will see how you shamelessly lie to yourself

Airlord2030:
if not for nairaland bots, I would have cursed your tribe.

are you not cursed already?

There's no public record of poverty rate by state by world bank in 2025.

In fact, world bank projected that up to 139 million Nigerians will be in poverty before the year ends, no thanks to Tinubu's babablu governance.

In summary, Tinubu is the president of more than 139 million poor Nigerians.

jmoore:
There's no public record of poverty rate by state by world bank in 2025.

In fact, world bank projected that up to 139 million Nigerians will be in poverty before the year ends, no thanks to Tinubu's babablu governance.

In summary, Tinubu is the president of more than 139 million poor Nigerians.

Tinubu is a weapon fashioned against Nigeria.

Tinubu is the producer of poverty.

immaculatesense:
Na me do the post?
Na me put south east for the worst poverty ravaged zone in the south?

Ondo state has the least poverty rate in Nigeria. Go and VERIFY.
Is Ondo also Lagos? Abi no Be South West again?

No Be Juju Juju Be Dat?

I don’t blame you,most of us who have traveled to different parts of the country know that aside From North East the next place you will see people living in abject poverty is South West,when I say abject poverty I mean the kind that doesn’t have hope.
No kind of sugar coasting or self deceit can fix that

immaculatesense:
South West is evergreen.
Note:.
The larger part of the 12% poverty are people who came to hustle in the south West.

Came to hustle ke. Keep living in denial. The truth is that a significant number of people in this country are living in poverty. Most of those people are the indigenes. Last time a UK rapper referenced the begging at the Island.

The gap is clear and the solution is in our hands. Let's work together to improve the situation in the North.
God bless Nigeria for ever!

Arda1000:
are you not cursed already?

thank nairaland bots

Arda1000:
tell that to people who have never left Ogbomosho ;.
Look around you?
Go to your stinking ghettos then enter motor and tour around South East and you will see how you shamelessly lie to yourself

Its just like telling an American to come to Nigeria to witness another kind of good life. Is that not ironic?
How will someone live Ogbomosho and go to Afikpo. Why? When people from all over the East are coming to Ogbomosho to seek greener pasture.

No Be Juju Be Dat?

Arda1000:
I don’t blame you,most of us who have traveled to different parts of the country know that aside From North East the next place you will see people living in abject poverty is South West,when I say abject poverty I mean the kind that doesn’t have hope.
No kind of sugar coasting or self deceit can fix that

Is just like Nigerians saying that America is the worst country in the world and they can't stop going there to seek greener pasture. Is that not Ironic?
I hope you can connect that analogy between the South East and the South West. South West is worst they say but can't stop coming in droves to seek greener pasture they can't get in their region.

No Be Juju Be Dat?

BondRiv:
Came to hustle ke. Keep living in denial. The truth is that a significant number of people in this country are living in poverty. Most of those people are the indigenes. Last time a UK rapper referenced the begging at the Island.

Are you people not coming to the West on a daily basis to seek for greener pasture?
It's like Nigerians saying that UK is the worst country but they can't stop seeking greener pasture there. I hope you can connect the dots between the East and the West in that analogy. West is this and that but all statistics and una hustle to come here on a daily prove otherwise.

No Be Juju Be Dat?

Arda1000:
why do you guys like to lie to yourselves.
South West minus lagos is on par with North East on poverty rate if not more.

When the senate come up with a porverty reduction fund , you will still find them begging that the fund be deployed majorly in SW , this is the irony of it . false statistics runining Nigeria

The table is turning.

The northerners have been the most benefactors of the Nigeria's resources yet they are the poorest.

The southerners have been the least benefactors of the Nigeria's resources yet they are the richest.

Magic or what?

immaculatesense:
Are you people not coming to the West on a daily basis to seek for greener pasture?
It's like Nigerians saying that UK is the worst country but they can't stop seeking greener pasture there. I hope you can connect the dots between the East and the West in that analogy. West is this and that but all statistics and una hustle to come here on a daily prove otherwise.

No Be Juju Be Dat?

Are which people? I'm not from the South East, but sensible enough to call out your nonsense churned out of ignorance and tribalism. Your people are suffering. Misplaced priority.

Arda1000:
why do you guys like to lie to yourselves.
South West minus lagos is on par with North East on poverty rate if not more.

Facts , one day I drove thru the bush to Ife and I was like is this for real

immaculatesense:
South West is evergreen.
Note:.
The larger part of the 12% poverty are people who came to hustle in the south West.

Ever green without water?

How ?

Abi it's those who came to hustle that seize the water?