According to the Research conducted by “the cable index” shows the analysis and statistical result that North West has the highest number of poor people in Nigeria with the total population of about 45.5million citizens.
The North East also rank the second highest with about 20.5 million poor people in its zone.
The North Central are also not left behind, these zone has about 20.2million poor people in its zone.
South South is the fourth highest With the total population of 19.7 million poor people in its zone.
Next is the South West,with the number of 16.3 million poor people in its zone.
Finally the South East with the population of 10.9 million poor people in its zone.
These Zone’s are faced with multidimensional poverty such as lack of adequate financial resources, unemployment, absence of social service, food insecurity etc.
This shows that about I33.1 million people are poor in Nigeria and there is need for the government to put more efforts in these areas.
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