The poverty rate in Kano is nearly 62 percent. As of 2013, 37 percent of the population abused drugs—something the locals believe is caused by high unemployment—and this state has the highest number of drug trafficking-related arrests.
Source: Aljazeera.com
In Taraba state, 67 percent of people live in poverty. The student-teacher ratio is around 46:1 and less than half of secondary school-aged children are in school.
Source: Mcser.org
In Niger state, 68 percent of the population lives in poverty. Less than one third of adults are literate and as of 2013, 76 percent lived on less than $2 US a day.
Source: Ruralpovertyportal.org
The poverty level is 71 percent in Borno. The state governor’s wife, Mrs. Nana Shettima, said in an article on Today.ng, “The situation has forced many to engage in street begging to feed their families.” Shettima recently distributed around $25,000 to women in the state to alleviate poverty.
Source: Today.ng
Gombe has a 29-percent unemployment rate. One of their biggest issues in this state is access to water. A resident of the state described what it was like trying to find clean water in an interview at Baobabafricaonline: “They are still mining for water after almost 14 years of being a state. This is my state. I belong here.” He added. “When the girl finally hit water and scooped it out from the ground, it was brownish, dirty looking like the colour of tea. This is what she has known all her life. This kind of water.’”
In Katsina state, 79 percent of people live in poverty. The unemployment rate was 28.1 percent as of 2011, and 62 percent of residents are illiterate.
Source: Knoema.com
In Jigawa state, 82 percent of people i live in poverty. The Central Bank of Nigeria announced plans in 2014 to increase access to formal financial services to 80 percent by 2020. As of 2014, more than 70 percent of residents (around 5 million people) lacked access to credit or any financial system.
Source: Leadership.ng
About 85 percent of people in Yobe are living in poverty. In 2013, 40 students in Yobe were killed by suspected Boko Haram militants. Local officials say the state’s inability to fund proper security at schools is to blame for the attacks.
Source: Voanews.com
In 2012 Sokoto state had an 81.2-percent poverty rate. That number increased to 86 percent by the time the 2014 Oxford report came out. The maternal mortality rate is about 900 out of 100,000 women in Sokoto. An estimated 9.8 percent of child births in Sokoto are attended to by a medical professional.
Source: Academa.edu
In Zamfara, 88 percent of residents live in poverty. In the early 2000s the Zamfara government spent more than $40,000 on poverty alleviation projects. Recently the Zamfara Budget Working Group was outraged at the governor for what they described as an “alarming scope of economic dangers (that threaten) the economic development of the state.”
Source: Allafrica.com
In Kebbi state, 89 percent of residents live in poverty. As of 2011 the unemployment rate was 25.3 percent. In 2009, state Gov. Alhaji Saidu Usman Dakingari said he planned on partnering with the National Poverty Eradication Programe to address the issues. The governor also partnered with Poverty Reduction Accelerate and Investment, which gave around $422 dollars to 1,600 households.
Sources: Knoema.com, Allafrica.com
Bauchi is the seventh most populous state in Nigeria, and nearly 90 percent of its residents live in poverty. According to 2010 data, 75 percent of the state is relatively poor and 68.2 percent lives on less than a dollar a day. Bauchi has a 30-percent unemployment rate and 51.5 percent of the population can barely feed itself.
Source: Thisdaylive.com
