Nigeria is the country with the fourth highest proportion of people who report feeling less safe than five years ago, languishing behind only Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Venezuela.

By Kabir Yusuf

While President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria repeatedly claims that security has improved under his administration, a new poll shows that the majority of Nigerians feel less safe than they did five years ago.

The report – World Risk Poll – shows that three in five Nigerians (61 per cent) feel less safe than they did five years ago. The report was authored by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, an independent global charity working to engineer a safer world.

The organisation gathered data from 125,000 people in 121 countries in order to get a global picture of the risk landscape, examining people’s experiences and perceptions of commonly faced risks, from pandemics and climate change to work-related accidents and road traffic collisions.

“Our aim is to help governments, regulators, inter-governmental bodies, businesses, NGOs, communities, and researchers use the findings to inform and target policies and interventions that save lives and help people feel safer,” the foundation said.

“We also intend the World Risk Poll to encourage other organisations to partner with us to create programmes and initiatives that help tackle the issues raised.”

According to the data – collected in 2021 – Nigeria is the country with the fourth highest proportion of people who report feeling less safe than five years ago, languishing behind only Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Venezuela.

At 61 per cent, this number has increased by a dramatic 26 percentage points since the last World Risk Poll in 2019, when 35 per cent of Nigerians reported feeling less safe.

While the Covid-19 pandemic may have played a role, the reasons behind this increase are likely linked to the country experiencing a wave of crime and violence in 2021 that included terrorism and kidnappings, the report said.

This is reflected in the poll results, with half (50 per cent) of the 1,000 Nigerians polled saying they, or someone they know, have experienced serious harm from violent crime in the past two years. This is more than double the number in 2019 when this figure stood at 22 per cent.

“The results from Nigeria are very concerning,” said Sarah Cumbers, Director of Evidence and Insight at Lloyd’s Register Foundation. “Amid a global pandemic, the continued fear of those we polled shows that greater action must be taken to improve safety.

“It’s worth noting that, although the violent crime was the biggest perceived threat to safety, other areas, including road or traffic accidents and severe weather also scored highly,” she said.

“Globally, especially in regions that already face widespread poverty and instability, governments and other policymakers must work with communities to build strategies to protect people from future pandemics that also account for the other risks they may now find themselves even more vulnerable to.”

Other safety risks Nigerians feel ‘very worried’ about include road or traffic accidents (59 per cent), severe weather (49 per cent), and the work they do (37 per cent).

Significantly, all areas of risk that Nigerians were polled about in 2019 saw an increase in responses of people feeling very worried in 2021.

Among the report’s most insightful findings is the fact that Covid-19 only ranks fourth among respondents’ most named threats – though the report also highlights growing concerns surrounding climate change and mental health, as well as a global underestimation of work-related harm risks.


About the report

For this second edition of the poll, the researchers conducted around 125,000 interviews in 121 countries last year, gathering insight from people around the world, including those living in places where little or no official data on safety and risk exists.

Spread across four themed reports, the poll covers the biggest risks facing people and communities globally, ranging from road crashes, severe weather, climate change, and disaster resilience, to work-related harm, violence, harassment at work, and use of personal data.

The study builds on the results from the inaugural poll in 2019 and explores how the relationship between perception and experience of risk may have shifted over time, including differences before and after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It also provides an understanding of how demographic factors contribute to different groups of people worrying about, and experiencing risks, in different ways.

The foundation hopes that the research will be repeated at least two more times, in 2023 and 2025.

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Only im Nigeria will terrorists be ruling in some local governments while the president travels to give security lectures in Liberia.

If it happens in any other country, you will be impeached same day, and maybe the president will get a job in Liberia and stay there to train gatemen on how to push the gate.

robinso01:
And there was a time Nigeria was one of the safest country in the world, but now, reverse is the case

When was that please?

. languishing behind only Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Venezuela.

See countries we're competing with

E no go better for APC!

And there was a time Nigeria was one of the safest country in the world, but now, reverse is the case

According to the data – collected in 2021 – Nigeria is the country with the fourth highest proportion of people who report feeling less safe than five years ago, languishing behind only Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Venezuela.

How else could ordinary Nigerians have felt if our lawmakers can be forced to proceed on 2 month vacation with the minority leader, Elumelu advising his colleagues to go back to their constituency if possible, as Abuja is longer safe.

Buhari has really let down majority of Nigerians who thought having a retired military general as president will put an end to the country economic and security woes.

It’s not “majority of Nigerians”…

It’s “all Nigerians”.

Because even Buhari dey dodge him head like this.

Consequences of the disaster Tinubu foisted on Nigerians.

Oga it's 100 percent

And they are trying to bring in another calamity and disaster

Some Nigerians don't deserve good things of life

That's very true. No where is safe, not even the airways.
Soon, they will start shooting down aircrafts because they have the means to do so.

We have fulanis and their collaborators to thank for such a beautiful situation.

thanks to buhari and his Muslim brothers ,Fulani have the freedom to do anyhow as they want,yet some stupid Nigerians want to vote for another disaster

100 percent true only God can help us lik this in case you need a carton for export or to package your goods and product that's what we good at

Dss would go after this guy for this article

As a concerned Nigeria, please can tinubu supporters tell me the exact projects tinubu did in Lagos

Thanks so much. I already clicked your Profile Signature Link and Joined.

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That is why most people are tribalistic when it comes to politics in Nigeria. They feel safer having their own brother on seat even if he is a devil devoid of competence.

I AM BLATANTLY SAYING IT WITHOUT MINCING WORDS THE MOST COMPETENT AND KNOWLEDGEABLE INDIVIDUAL TO STIR THE AFFAIRS OF THIS COUNTRY AMONGST THE TOP FOUR CONTESTANTS IS MR. PETER GREGORY OBI FOLLOWED BY KWANKWASO!! TAKE IT TO THE BANK!

Anything bereft of these two, Nigerians shall feel even worse and less safe than ever of this upcoming heat!

They are right on this one . But my six year old son CAn boldly say this in public.

Hmmn! I was banned for good 3 weeks on Nairaland. Can't reply or create messages, can't even click like. What's my offence? I demonstrated my franchise as a responsible citizen by being Obidient, that was my sin. Since one can no longer publicly support any candidate of his choice on Nairaland. I think it's time for me to give up on this country. Since this platform is owned by a Yoruba, there is a secret scheming going on here to suppress, oppress and coarse everyone to eat 'Agbado and Cassava' by fire by force.

Nigeria is a war zone

Facts, 8 years ago was preaching against voting buhari, a lot of them attacked me on Nairaland, but today i see them no more, who knows if some of Buhari supporters are even dead as a result of hardship and insecurity brought upon Nigerians by Buhari and his useless supporters,

Message to Peter Obi, incase you become the president (which i know corrupt Nigerians will not allow that to happen,) pls don't disappoint your supporters like Buhari did

Even blind man can literally see this one, sooth saying not needed here

Nigerian handed over power to elements of ISWAP on a platter I tell U

The Zoo is not even fit for animals to stay talk less of humans.
Let the drug lord be the president of the zoo and Yoruba and fulani should continue their love affair and rule the zoo .

Tinubu wants to continue from where buhari stopped..
Nigerians, the future is in our hands

Shame on to Tinubu and co. for giving us the tragic Buhari and still want to continue where he stopped!

All Nigerians not majority.
Even buhari is afraid of his boys right now. Since they said they will kidnapp him and El rufai

Particularly if you're holed up north.

Did I just read majority? If the presidential brigade was hit, it's no longer majority. It's more than that. Even the president has repeatedly confess that he wants to leave.


I yield the mic to Lai Mohammed