Also, a former Nigerian lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, who shared the statistics on Monday, said that the state governors were the real cause of the high rate of poverty and hardship in Nigeria.


The number of Nigerians living below the poverty line has risen to over 133million while another 4.3million face severe hunger in the terrorists-ravaged Northeast region, according to figures from the World Food Programme, an agency of the United Nations.



Also, a former Nigerian lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, who shared the statistics on Monday, said that the state governors were the real cause of the high rate of poverty and hardship in Nigeria.





Sani, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th Assembly said that a total sum of $5.4 billion Paris fund was shared to state governors in eight years but the country still had a record of at least 133 million people living below the poverty line.





Sani said, "In eight years,$5.4 Billion Paris refund was shared to States Governors;133 million people now live below the poverty line and 4.3 million people in the North East face severe hunger and malnutrition according to WFP figures. Our problems are man-made."





The World Food Programme (WFP) in its recent report said that insurgency in the "Northeast region has left 4.1 million people in food insecurity in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, out of whom, three million of them are in Borno State, the epicentre of insurgency."





The report added that Nigeria’s human-development indicators are poor and that persistent poverty affects more than half of the population, most severely in the Northeast and Northwest regions.





"In addition, Nigeria is also subject to periodic droughts and floods. This has had an adverse impact on agricultural output and increased the vulnerability of populations, especially in rural areas," the WFP report added.