Internally displaced woman in Nigeria's Maiduguri. Sheltered at Dolari I IDP Camp (Photo, UNDP Nigeria/Lucky Musonda)
The United Nations Development Programme today, announced the most human security secure geopolitical zone in Nigeria.
According to its National Human Development Report for Nigeria, 2016, the South-East is the safest place to live in Nigeria.
"Insecurity remains an ever-present threat to peace and
development of the country … and, without a doubt, poses great danger
and exacerbates an already fragile economic development landscape as the
country grapples with the reality of shifting from over-reliance on oil
and gas sector to other sectors,” stated Fatma Samoura, UNDP
Nigeria Resident Representative at the launch of the 2016 National Human
Development Report in Abuja earlier today.
The report under the theme “Human Security and Human Development” makes
a compelling case that unchecked poverty; persistent hunger;
uncontrolled diseases; lack of access to basic services; disregard for
human rights; sub-optimal response to natural and man-made disasters;
unregulated natural resources exploitation and use – among others, pose
serious threats to human development today.
The report further highlights the existing gap in human security across the geo-political zones of the country; - the most human security secure geo-political zone is the South-East
while the North-West and the North-East geopolitical zones are the
least human security secured, with residents of the Federal Capital
Territory being the worst in most realms of the Human Security Index.
The North-East region of the country has been the most affected by the
more than 5 yearlong military insurgency. It also remains among the
least developed parts of the country.
The report further states "Despite a robust economic growth of
about seven percent between 2010 and 2014, a large proportion of
Nigerians still live in poverty and are exposed to various
vulnerabilities. An estimated 61.3 percent of Nigerians are classified
as poor with 48.8 percent of them classified as multi-dimensionally
poor"
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