At the launch of the rice pyramid yesterday, at Abuja, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele disclosed that 2,160 metric tonnes of rice was imported into the country in 2021.
Data from the Federal Road Safety Corps and the National Bureau of Statistics says between 2013 and 2020, at least 41,709 persons have lost their lives to road crashes in Nigeria.
Data from the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) shows that 12,595 Nigerians relocated to Canada in 2019.
From health to gender, security, agriculture, extractives and other sectors, Dataphyte covered all the pertinent events that unfolded in the country in 2021 and “made it make sense” for Nigerians, bringing deeper insights into the issues.
President Muhammadu Buhari was 79 yesterday. Since winning the 2015 Presidential elections and again in 2019 he has now celebrated 7 birthdays as President.
Two separate reports by the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) have revealed how the Nigerian government has overtime used the excuse of fighting terrorism to further encroach on civic space in the country.
The International Anti-Corruption Day is observed by the international community on December 9 every year. It is the day set aside by the United Nations (UN) to create awareness about the negative impacts of corruption on nations and the need to fight it.
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The House of Representative Committee on Agricultural Productivity and Services has called for a public hearing of a Bill for the establishment of a Nigerian Pesticide Council. This was disclosed in a press release by Alliance for Action on Pesticide (AAPN), a group of civil society organizations working in the agriculture sector.
Today, the global community marks World AIDS Day with the theme “End Inequalities, End AIDS”.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has earmarked the sum of N2.47 trillion as Service Wide Vote (SWV) in the 2022 proposed budget, despite concerns around it.
The Federal Government failed to comply with the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), 2007 and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) with respect to the submission of its Consolidated Financial Statements.
Emeka returned home after a long day at the office and asked his wife, Aisha for the N20,000 he kept in the cabinet. In response, Aisha told him she had given it to Tunde, the electrician for the electrical works he was supposed to do around the house. He was yet to come but Aisha said he had promised to deliver so she gave him the money Emeka got furious at his darling wife for giving out money to a handyman for a job not yet done.
he Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has failed to account for 104.48 million barrels of domestic crude oil it lifted in 2019.
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A Dataphyte review of the 2019 Auditor General’s Federation Annual Report shows that the country may have been shortchanged to the tune of N666.15 billion due to the discrepancies observed in the financial books of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Nigeria Custom Service (NCS).
The ennobled #ENDSARs protests came to a grinding and violent halt on the night of October 20th when soldiers opened fire on the crowd of peaceful protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate. Or at least this is the version of the incident that the people tell while the defence apparatus in the country has countered this narrative with several, changing versions of their view of the incident.
