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Abuja, Nigeria - Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics says poverty levels in the oil-rich West African nation have risen.
Statistician-General Yemi Kale on Monday presented the results of a 2010 study indicating that poverty had risen from 54 percent of Nigeria's population in 2004 to 69 percent in 2010, or about 112 million Nigerians.
Kale said 93.9 percent of respondents had described themselves as poor in the nation of about 160 million people.
Nigeria's northwest and northeast, regions besieged by Islamic insurgents, recorded the highest poverty rates with about 75
percent of the people there living in poverty.
He said estimates show Nigerians may have gotten poorer in 2011.
Reliable statistics are hard to come by in Nigeria, making public policy planning difficult in Africa's most populous nation. - Sapa-AP
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