FILE: Almajiris feed off food poured on the road in the Government Reserved Area of Gombe. Photo: Chima Azubuike.
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 further noted that most of the poor in Nigeria were found in the Northern part of the country.Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, , is from Katsina, a state in the North-West, which like other parts of the North, has produced a larger proportion of Nigerian leaders. “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.
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. 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.
According to the report, “Poverty remains high in Nigeria due to its dire social service delivery outcomes and lack of basic infrastructure. 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.
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. “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.
“Poverty alleviation programmes by successive administrations have failed because they are bourgeois based.”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.
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