No fewer than 10 Local Government Areas of Gombe State are facing severe food security issues, according to the 2024/2025 Gombe State General Household Survey and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey.
Alhaji Ibrahim Dule, Statistician-General of the state, stated this on Tuesday at a three-day capacity-building workshop for local council officials in Gombe.
The exercise, organised by the Gombe State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund, aims to combat multidimensional poverty among children in 11 LGAs of the state.
Dule, who was represented by Musa Umar, the overseeing Director of Economic and Social Statistics at the Gombe State Bureau of Statistics, reviewed the survey conducted with the support of UNICEF.
He said the survey showed that 65 per cent of households in the state have access to drinking water, while 51.5 per cent have access to improved sanitation, with urban centres at 64.9
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