Image: DFID Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell visits a low cost private school in Lagos, June 2011
Nigeria is home to 158 million people, but more than 100 million live on less than £1 per day. A stable, better governed and prosperous Nigeria would rapidly reduce poverty. It would also hugely benefit UK trade, energy and security interests, and help reduce crime and illegal migration.
Top priorities
- Providing more children with a better education
- Helping Nigeria use its oil revenues to improve the lives of its citizens
- Providing more family planning and better health services to stop women dying in childbirth
- Immunising more children, helping eradicate polio and distributing antimalarial bednets
- Helping millions of people to get a bank account and use financial services to build their savings and small businesses
We will spend an average of £250 million per year in Nigeria until 2015.