USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigeria: Boko Haram, poverty, Jonathan and the game of musical chairs

In the Nigeria Economic Report issued by The World Bank in May 2013, the most impoverished state in the country, Jigawa, has a poverty rate of 77.5%. This connotes that out of over 4.3million estimated inhabitants of Jigawa, 3.3million are living below the poverty line of $1.25 per day.

In rudimentary terms, 3 out of every 4 people in Jigawa are poverty-stricken. The northern part of the country is the hardest hit by austerity, as the north-east & north-west zones have over 70% poverty rates. Earlier this year, a flurry of news reports purported that the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released figures which held that Sokoto, with a poverty rate of 81.2%, was the poorest state in the country. Dr. Yemi Kale, the Statistician-General of the nation, officially decried the report as a 'bogus, fictitious, baseless and inciting publication on Sokoto State as the poorest state in Nigeria.' The actual figures were off-beam, but euphemistic retorts do not negate the fact that there remains a core problem. Read More

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