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80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by enehvictor: 11:44am On May 15, 2020 |
Four in every ten Nigerian (40.1 per cent) earn less than ₦377 per day, but in Sokoto, Taraba and Jigawa, about nine in ten earn that amount, according to the 2019 poverty and inequality report by Nigeria’s statistics bureau. Following closely behind these states are Ebonyi and Adamawa, where eight in ten earn ₦377 daily; as well as Zamfara, Yobe and Niger, where seven in ten earn that amount. On the flipside are states with low poverty rates: Lagos (5 in 100), Delta (6 in 100), Osun (9 in 100), Ogun (9 in 100), and Oyo (10 in 100). The report shows that 15 of the 17 states below the national average (i.e. where the majority of residents are poor) are in the northern part of the country. South-eastern states Ebonyi (80%) and Enugu (58%) are the other two poorest states. Kwara, Kogi, Benue and the FCT, all in the north-central, are the only other northern states below the nation’s poverty line. Borno State was not captured in the survey due to accessibility. Also, five of the best seven states are in the south-west. Ekiti, the sixth state in the region, ranks 12th with 28 per cent poverty rate. South-south states, Edo and Delta, are the other two in the top seven. This variation exists, the report showed, due to the size of the households in each region. Households with 2–4 people have a poverty rate of 17.88 per cent. Those with 5–9 people have 40.9 per cent, while those with 10–19 people 67 per cent rate of poverty. “There must be a strategic state policy on population control,” Azeez Olaniyan, a conflict and security expert, said. “A country that seeks to lift people out of poverty must engage in active production, rather than remain a service economy.” The report further disclosed that poverty was more prevalent in rural areas. The urban poverty rate was put at 18.04 per cent while the rural poverty rate was 52.10 per cent. That’s about three times poorer. By profession, the report found that the poverty rate is lowest among salary earners and non-farm workers, while poverty is highest among households whose heads are engaged in agricultural jobs only. Jide Ojo, a development consultant, said there is need to tackle insecurity in farming zones to make farming more lucrative. Furthermore, the data showed that the more education the head of a family has, the lower the rate of poverty in that household. Across the board in this regard, households led by women outperform men with a decent margin. In other words, women with higher education tend to liberate their households from poverty quicker than men with the same educational qualification. Analysts believe this alludes to the need to educate the girl child. Mr Olaniyan explained that the government needs to invest in human capital development such as education and human welfare for its people to flourish. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/392744-in-sokoto-taraba-jigawa-about-nine-in-ten-people-are-poor-nbs.html 2 Likes
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Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by blowjob: 11:46am On May 15, 2020 |
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Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Davash222(m): 11:49am On May 15, 2020 |
Osun ahead of Anambra in low poverty rate ![]() How are they calculating this thing? 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by enehvictor: 11:53am On May 15, 2020 |
Davash222: Leave osun state, the focus is on Ebonyi state 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Powerintoxicate: 11:53am On May 15, 2020 |
Davash222:look at this one. You think it's by having the highest number of millionaire s per square mile? Nonsense. Igbos across the spread are really poor people. That's why they all run to Lagos Oyo or Osun away from their erosion prone land 8 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Davash222(m): 12:02pm On May 15, 2020 |
enehvictor:I go where my interest lies. 4 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by helinues: 12:02pm On May 15, 2020 |
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Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by helinues: 12:03pm On May 15, 2020 |
Davash222: This thread is about Ebonyi. Don't derail pls 9 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Davash222(m): 12:03pm On May 15, 2020 |
Powerintoxicate:A mad man in Igboland is wiser than a PhD holder in your village. 12 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by AniOmaa: 12:09pm On May 15, 2020 |
Ebonyi is trying abeg, they are one of the most infrastructurally viable and improved social welfare states in Nigeria despite the very low budgets they receive. The only problem is that the human development index is still quite average at best, but with time and consistently better governance, they should get it right soon. 5 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Davash222(m): 12:14pm On May 15, 2020 |
Powerintoxicate:You must be living in stone age. Sometimes, you need to creep out of your brown roof Hut and view the world. 8 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Enyimbafc: 12:28pm On May 15, 2020 |
How many ebonyi men and women do u see looting vehicles,eating rats and forming 1 million miscreant touts during the lockdown. 5 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by AniOmaa: 12:45pm On May 15, 2020 |
enehvictor:Why don't you go to Ebonyi and find out if they have ordinary drinking water or not, what a daft question to ask. 5 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Ayekotoo(m): 1:00pm On May 15, 2020 |
Davash222: Fraudulent activity is not wisdom ![]() ![]() 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by IGBOSON1: 1:08pm On May 15, 2020 |
AniOmaa: There’s someone with different monikers or a grp whose job on this forum is to try and demarket Igbo states. Recently, they’ve turned their attention towards Port Harcourt city as well! They are not Igbo but sometimes use their Igbo monikers to make it appear Ndigbo are at each other’s throats and can’t get on together, or they use the Igbo moniker to abuse other ethnicities in the Niger-Delta to try and keep the bickering and mistrust their fathers initiated in the Eastern Region alive! 6 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Ayekotoo(m): 1:08pm On May 15, 2020 |
@Op, The following states are considered Educationally Less Developed or Disadvantaged States (ELDS): Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kastina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara. 2 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by OnyeOfenmanu: 1:11pm On May 15, 2020 |
enehvictor: Osun is poorer than ebonyi... #fact 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by AniOmaa: 1:14pm On May 15, 2020 |
Ayekotoo:I'm 100% certain there are probably more educationally advantaged/sound Ebonyians than whichever state you come from (mind you I'm from Delta state). I've met lots and lots of educationally sound Ebonyi folks out here in various top institutions in Delta state. By the way who takes your useless stats any seriously these days? Your country can't even get its national census figures right, na so so fake fake numbers full everywhere... which other bureau of statistics holds any credibility in Nigeria anymore? 4 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by micseyi(m): 1:17pm On May 15, 2020 |
Davash222: First of all, the thread is not about Osun or Anambra. Secondly, the problem I have with some Igbo people(a few of them) is that they just believe they are better than others. In their mind, they believe they are above others, and that myopic view always blinds them. Later they will say the statistics are fake and concocted by ‘Yoruba media’. They should keep living in denial. No doubt the average Igbo man is hardworking and industrious. That doesn’t mean others aren’t too 4 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Nobody: 1:24pm On May 15, 2020 |
IGBOSON1:You saw well. Chino and his SW brother Kinematics. 5 Likes |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by OnyeOfenmanu: 1:29pm On May 15, 2020 |
AniOmaa: In addition to what you wrote, as someone who knows the southwest in and out, i can tell you with all facts and authority that Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states more extremely poor people in ratio and percentage to the general population, compared to Ebonyi state, and but in terms of number of poor people, Oyo and Ogun state also have more poor people and stunted population than Ebonyi. The generality of children in the southwest feed on basically Ogi or eko with ila /egbegiri soup In 2016 https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/09/01/unicef-22-of-children-under-five-in-south-west-suffer-stunted-growth-2/ in 2018 http://saharareporters.com/2018/02/27/south-west-has-second-highest-number-stunted-children-nigeria-unicef https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/260034-1-5-million-stunted-children-south-west-edo-unicef.html ![]() 1 Like |
Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by Nobody: 1:32pm On May 15, 2020 |
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Re: 80% Poverty Rate, Is Ebonyi A Northern State? by OnyeOfenmanu: 1:37pm On May 15, 2020 |
OnyeOfenmanu: we can as well compare neighborhoods where generality of the people in Ebonyi state and Osun and Ekiti combined live. 1 Like |
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