In November 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics released its detailed report on poverty situation in Nigeria. In the report, it was confirmed that Nigeria has 133 residents who are multidimensionally poor. The report also showcased a breakdown of the Poverty index based on the states and geopolitical zones.

While this report was very clear and well detailed our attention has been drawn to the pattern at which some media outlets have propagated the news since November 2022. Our focus in this writeup is the manner at which a so-called statistical outlet on Twitter has been reporting this news.

The handle called Statisense prides itself as a platform that releases statistics about various topics. On the issue of the Poverty index in Nigeria, Statisense was one of the first media outlets on Twitter to release the news. Below is a screenshot from the their tweet.

Over time, the platform has continued to release more reports focusing on mainly one geopolitical zone of the country, the South East. From the NBS report, the South East of Nigeria is the only geopolitical zone that has up to 50% of its population above poverty. This report seems not to have been received well by the people behind the Statisense account. Ever since the release of the report, the controllers of the account have been releasing their own versions of the report, fine-tuning it to portray the South East as the poverty capital of the country.

First, they released a report about tagged "Multidimensional Poverty per Square mile in Nigeria". It is a fact that the South East of Nigeria is the smallest region in the country by a huge margin. In fact, if the size of the South East is multiplied by 2, it will still be the smallest geo political zone in the country. So in that report released by Statisense, the South East was recorded as the poorest region in the country based on landmass which was considered by many to be a very misleading report as landmass has nothing to do with poverty index. This was one of the first attempt by the platform to place the South East as the poorest region in the country against the actual report from he NBS.

Next was a report released few days ago by the same platform about the South East where it talked about the South East having up to 50% poor people. It should be noted that this platform has never reported about the poverty in other regions with the same energy at which it carries the news about th East. These repeated reports about poverty in the South East sends the wrong message to uninformed Nigerians making them believe the East is filled with poverty stricken people while the opposite is the case as the South East not only has the lowest percentage of poor people but also has the lowest population of poor people in the Nigeria and it's the only region in the country with up to 50% of its population above the poverty index. While we consider only 50% of the region's population to be above the poverty index as a horrible thing, you can imagine the poverty level in other regions that don't even have up to 50% of its residents above poverty.

Lol

We would like to state that no matter how many times they release poverty reports about the South East, it can never change the fact that the South East remains the geo political zone with the lowest number of poor people in Nigeria both by percentage and by total population and it will continue to reduce within the coming years.
Statisense should put in as much energy it uses in portraying the South East in bad light in also releasing the reports from other geopolitical zones.
Below are images of the actual report from the National Bureau of Statistics.

You haven't said anything yet. Outline the hypocrisy before before Yorubas and Igbos arrives in few minutes. Or you keep quiet

Unbiased1:
In November 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics released its detailed report on poverty situation in Nigeria. In the report, it was confirmed that Nigeria has 133 residents who are multidimensionally poor. The report also showcased a breakdown of the Poverty index based on the states and geopolitical zones.

While this report was very clear and well detailed our attention has been drawn to the pattern at which some media outlets have propagated the news since November 2022. Our focus in this writeup is the manner at which a so-called statistical outlet on Twitter has been reporting this news.

The handle called Statisense prides itself as a platform that releases statistics about various topics. On the issue of the Poverty index in Nigeria, Statisense was one of the first media outlets on Twitter to release the news. Below is a screenshot from the their tweet.

Ok. Forget Statisense. Below is directly from NBS

Across the geo-political zones, the child MPI shows higher poverty in the North-East and North-West (where 90% of children are poor) and lower poverty in the South-East and South-West (74% and 65.1% respectively).

https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/news/78#:~:text=Highlights

Twistaray:



Ok. Forget Statisense. Below is directly from NBS



https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/news/78#:~:text=Highlights

This a report of only child poverty. The NBS released a PDF file of the full report and the South East has the lowest number of poor people in both percentage and population including children, women and all human beings living there.

Unbiased1:


This a report of only child poverty. The NBS released a PDF file of the full report and the South East has the lowest number of poor people in both percentage and population including children, women and all human beings living there.

Drop the link to the report, Lets all confirm it

Also, i hope as u reject their stats now, you will also reject their stats when they turn around to say your region has the most Industries in the future

U cant reject it when it doesnt favor u and accept it when it does... Thats being a hypocrite and logically handicapped with a long term defective reasoning

EmperorCaesar:


Drop the link to the report, Lets all confirm it

Also, i hope as u reject their stats now, you will also reject their stats when they turn around to say your region has the most Industries in the future

U cant reject it when it doesnt favor u and accept it when it does... Thats being a hypocrite and logically handicapped with a long term defective reasoning

This is not a matter of rejecting their report. Why are they releasing multiple reports about the South East as if the South East is the only geopolitical zone in that report? I won't be surprised if they release another twisted version of the report about the east next month. Let them release the poverty reports from other regions with the same energy, period. As we all know that that the South East has a good number of light skinned people, I won't be surprised if they released another poverty index called "Poverty in Nigeria per Light Skinned People" and the South East will be placed at number 1 again.

Unbiased1:


This is not a matter of rejecting their report. Why are they releasing multiple reports about the South East as if the South East is the only geopolitical zone in that report? I won't be surprised if they release another twisted version of the report about the east next month. Let them release the poverty reports from other regions with the same energy, period. As we all know that that the South East has a good number of light skinned people, I won't be surprised if they released another poverty index called "Poverty in Nigeria per Light Skinned People" and the South East will be placed at number 1 again.

So we should accept your opinion and rejects that statistical analysis

Your victimization don reach statisense again... Cause I'm sure others have seen controversial stats about their region too but they just locked up

So which of their analysis do u think its true

EmperorCaesar:


So we should accept your opinion and rejects that statistical analysis

Your victimization don reach statisense again... Cause I'm sure others have seen controversial stats about their region too but they just locked up

So which of their analysis do u think its true

Lol. I did not reject their report. Stop twisting my statement or are you also a staff of Statisense? What did they mean by "Poverty per Square kilometer"? What kind of useless statistics is that? If not because they had ulterior motives, how does landmass relate to poverty?

Unbiased1:


I see you love deceiving yourself. Here is the portion of the article you are quoting:


"Child poverty is prevalent in rural areas, with almost 90% of rural children experiencing poverty.
Across the geo-political zones, the child MPI shows higher poverty in the North-East and North-West (where 90% of children are poor) and lower poverty in the South-East and South-West (74% and 65.1% respectively). The incidence of Child MPI is above 50% in all States and greater than 95% in Bayelsa, Sokoto, Gombe and Kebbi."

Like I said earlier, the poverty report you quoted is for only child poverty. Download the PDF for the full report and accept the report happily.

Lmaoo.
The index covers both people/adult and children.

63% of persons living within Nigeria (133 million people) are multidimensionally poor.
The National MPI is 0.257, [b]indicating that poor people in Nigeria experience just over one-quarter of all possible deprivations.
65% of the poor (86 million people) live in the North, while 35% (nearly 47 million) live in the South. Poverty levels across States vary significantly, with the incidence of multidimensional poverty ranging from a low of 27% in Ondo[/b]to a high of 91% in Sokoto.
Over half of the population of Nigeria are multidimensionally poor and cook with dung, wood or charcoal, rather than cleaner energy. High deprivations are also apparent nationally in sanitation, time to healthcare, food insecurity, and housing.
In general, the incidence of monetary poverty is lower than the incidence of multidimensional poverty across most states. In Nigeria, 40.1% of people are poor according to the 2018/19 national monetary poverty line, and 63% are multidimensionally poor according to the National MPI 2022.
Multidimensional poverty is higher in rural areas, where 72% of people are poor, compared to 42% of people in urban areas.
The National MPI is reported with a linked Child MPI, which provides additional information on Multidimensional Child Poverty in Nigeria. According to the report:

Two-thirds (67.5%) of children (0–17) are multidimensionally poor according to the National MPI, and half (51%) of all poor people are children.
The highest deprivations are in the indicator of child engagements – where over half of poor children lack the intellectual stimulation that is pivotal to early childhood development.

Can you read and do you understand English? It's an overall stats that covers regions, people, children, and states respectively.

Lm.aooo

Unbiased1:


I see you love deceiving yourself. Here is the portion of the article you are quoting:


"Child poverty is prevalent in rural areas, with almost 90% of rural children experiencing poverty.
Across the geo-political zones, the child MPI shows higher poverty in the North-East and North-West (where 90% of children are poor) and lower poverty in the South-East and South-West (74% and 65.1% respectively). The incidence of Child MPI is above 50% in all States and greater than 95% in Bayelsa, Sokoto, Gombe and Kebbi."

Like I said earlier, the poverty report you quoted is for only child poverty. Download the PDF for the full report and accept the report happily.

No where was children poverty was ever and solely reported in the world. Only in your mind.

PROPORTIONAL THAT ARE MULTIDIMENSIONALLY POOR 2022

North East: 76.5%
North West: 75.8%
North Central: 66.3%
South South: 62.6%
South East: 49.0%
South West: 40.0%

#StatiSense
(NMPI)
2:14 pm · 16 Jul 2023

https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1680566453303476226?t=7Uup4bqX3ixmdchkPrylgg&s=19

All this statistics is not my issue... I seriously don't understand why someone from the middle belt would be poor... Ok let me rephrase... I don't get how this much people from the middle belt can be poor

South East where I come from is the least endowed really

Middle belt have no excuse really

This communities have endless lands

Can't this communities come together form a cooperatives meet banks, use their land as back up... Collect loans to buy farm imports and machineries

Say $2 million dollars... Improved seeds,machineries

Farm 50× what they farm on a normal

Even of its cassava... A community can farm 5000 hectares in Benue or Niger or nassarawa

With improved species 30 tons per hectares is achievable

Community gari processing set up

30 x5000 hectares that's 150,000 tons of cassava minimum... Say 10% is lost that's 135,000

If sold raw at 25,000 per ton . .. That's 3.4 billion roughly.... If it cost 150,000 to plant and harvest 1 hectares that's 750 million

2.6 billion .. Say 600 million is paid to banks for part of loan

2 billion... If u have 50 families contributing land

That's 40 million per family... If it's 100 that's 20 million per family

If they contribute 10 million each they can set up gari, ethanol, cassava chip factories in their village to increase income even

Mehn I really don't get it at all

Twistaray:


No where was children poverty was ever and solely reported in the world. Only in your mind.




https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1680566453303476226?t=7Uup4bqX3ixmdchkPrylgg&s=19

Hi
You are annoying oo, honestly. Can't you read? The article speaks about the poverty index in general but the percentage you were quoting was the one that represented child poverty. Oga go and read the report you posted again and stop disturbing me. Let me highlight the portion of that article for you again:

"Child poverty is prevalent in rural areas, with almost 90% of rural children experiencing poverty.
Across the geo-political zones, the child MPI shows higher poverty in the North-East and North-West (where 90% of children are poor) and lower poverty in the South-East and South-West (74% and 65.1% respectively). The incidence of Child MPI is above 50% in all States and greater than 95% in Bayelsa, Sokoto, Gombe and Kebbi."


Please read like someone that studied English in school abeg. It is stated there clearly "child MPI".

As for the Statisense post, that is what they are known for. Before the National Bureau of Statistics released their report in November, Statisense had already tweeted up to 3 times about the poverty index in Nigeria where it portrayed the South West as the region with the lowest poverty until NBS destroyed their fake stats in November. Seems they have started again. The report from the NBS is the only valid report and not the nonsense repeatedly been uploaded by Statisense. Only a new report officially published by the NBS for 2023 will be accepted not this nonsense. As I said before, go the NBS website and download the original report and stop using this nonsense from Statisense.

Unbiased1:
Over time, the platform has continued to release more reports focusing on mainly one geopolitical zone of the country, the South East. From the NBS report, the South East of Nigeria is the only geopolitical zone that has up to 50% of its population above poverty. This report seems not to have been received well by the people behind the Statisense account. Ever since the release of the report, the controllers of the account have been releasing their own versions of the report, fine-tuning it to portray the South East as the poverty capital of the country.

First, they released a report about tagged "Multidimensional Poverty per Square mile in Nigeria". It is a fact that the South East of Nigeria is the smallest region in the country by a huge margin. In fact, if the size of the South East is multiplied by 2, it will still be the smallest geo political zone in the country. So in that report released by Statisense, the South East was recorded as the poorest region in the country based on landmass which was considered by many to be a very misleading report as landmass has nothing to do with poverty index. This was one of the first attempt by the platform to place the South East as the poorest region in the country against the actual report from he NBS.

Next was a report released few days ago by the same platform about the South East where it talked about the South East having up to 50% poor people. It should be noted that this platform has never reported about the poverty in other regions with the same energy at which it carries the news about th East. These repeated reports about poverty in the South East sends the wrong message to uninformed Nigerians making them believe the East is filled with poverty stricken people while the opposite is the case as the South East not only has the lowest percentage of poor people but also has the lowest population of poor people in the Nigeria and it's the only region in the country with up to 50% of its population above the poverty index. While we consider only 50% of the region's population to be above the poverty index as a horrible thing, you can imagine the poverty level in other regions that don't even have up to 50% of its residents above poverty.

Don't mind their foolish and senseless propaganda. Anyone with common sense knows that SW is the poverty capital. Even SS is far better than them. Igbos dominate in education, trade, craft and local industry. You can't be far ahead in these vital sectors and not have the least poverty. Again, take a look at rural and urban areas of SE then compare with that of SW. You will see a world of difference! The SW people lives mainly very poor ghetto conditions both in their rural and urban areas. Which is a clear evidence of generational multi-dimension poverty!!!

Yet they keep deceiving themselves. This is the information age, so all their shenanigans and cheap propaganda is easily exposed.

Unbiased1:

Hi
You are annoying oo, honestly. Can't you read? The article speaks about the poverty index in general but the percentage you were quoting was the one that represented child poverty. Oga go and read the report you posted again and stop disturbing me. Let me highlight the portion of that article for you again:

"Child poverty is prevalent in rural areas, with almost 90% of rural children experiencing poverty.
Across the geo-political zones, the child MPI shows higher poverty in the North-East and North-West (where 90% of children are poor) and lower poverty in the South-East and South-West (74% and 65.1% respectively). The incidence of Child MPI is above 50% in all States and greater than 95% in Bayelsa, Sokoto, Gombe and Kebbi."


Please read like someone that studied English in school abeg. It is stated there clearly "child MPI".

As for the Statisense post, that is what they are known for. Before the National Bureau of Statistics released their report in November, Statisense had already tweeted up to 3 times about the poverty index in Nigeria where it portrayed the South West as the region with the lowest poverty until NBS destroyed their fake stats in November. Seems they have started again. The report from the NBS is the only valid report and not the nonsense repeatedly been uploaded by Statisense. Only a new report officially published by the NBS for 2023 will be accepted not this nonsense. As I said before, go the NBS website and download the original report and stop using this nonsense from Statisense.

Oya, kindly link us to your NBS source.
Olodo rabataa. 😂😂
This one doesn't understand the meaning of multidimensional poverty.

Where is the source of your stats, you said NBS but could no provide a link to even believe you have a dunce supporter above you oiling back says a lot.

Lmaooo.

Below is another solid table confirming mine.

Op leave them.
Propaganda is different from reality.
I recall how some years back,we use hear to that Osun economy is bigger than that of the whole south East,then recession and COVID-19 came, we know the people that nearly died from hunger, we also know the geopolitical zone that is the most indebted.
Now two months into the agbado illegitimate presidency, they are already protesting in Ibadan and Osun because of hardship where as other regions are calm, and tomorrow you will see them churning out fake statistics.

EmperorCaesar:


So we should accept your opinion and rejects that statistical analysis

Your victimization don reach statisense again... Cause I'm sure others have seen controversial stats about their region too but they just locked up

So which of their analysis do u think its true

Stats, facts and figures are poisons to ibbos. They hate seeing them as they're dangerous to their health.

You don catch Dem well well while dipping their dirty hands inside the cookie jar

Na jealousy & hatred dey cause am. All the Igbo friends rhat are around me are all doing exceptionally well. Very hardworking smart individuals. God bless dem jöor, bless SE & the SS

Unbiased1:
We would like to state that no matter how many times they release poverty reports about the South East, it can never change the fact that the South East remains the geo political zone with the lowest number of poor people in Nigeria both by percentage and by total population and it will continue to reduce within the coming years.
Statisense should put in as much energy it uses in portraying the South East in bad light in also releasing the reports from other geopolitical zones.
Below are images of the actual report from the National Bureau of Statistics.

What do you expect from Yoruba men, the are known for smear campaign against Igbos
Statisense is own by Yoruba man