Nigeria’s long history of wasteful spending has continued under President Muhammadu Buhari as new data shows the President and Vice President of Nigeria have budgeted the sum of N14.7 billion on Travel and Transportation, Food and Catering Services, Refreshments in the last four years.
Three months after the Dataphyte report detailing how the Ondo State Radiovision corporation (OSRC) was abandoned despite a N202.72 million Renovation project, the state government has restarted work on the OSRC building.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s has committed to pay for the insurance premiums of 83 million Nigerians who cannot afford to pay for their health insurance premiums.
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The prices of food items in Nigeria has gone up again for the second consecutive month. This was revealed by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its release of the food price index for April 2022.
The Kwara state government has withheld contract information required by law to be disclosed regarding a N476.3 million contract it awarded for the installation of “barbed wires on fence”.
Lecturers have continued strike action in protest against the alleged breach of the 2020 Memorandum of Action (MOA) signed between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Nigerian government.
Weeks after Nigeria experienced harrowing fuel scarcity, blamed largely on the rising prices of crude oil globally amidst the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the dirty fuel saga, another wave of fuel scarcity is looming in the country. Queues are again getting longer in the country’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
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Why? The price of everything has skyrocketed so much so that even alternative food options are now out of reach. Inflation stands at 15.92% as of March 2022 while food inflation has been on the rise since 2019 and stands at 17.20% today.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has extended its strike action by another twelve weeks. This development was confirmed to Dataphyte by the Union’s President, Professor Victor Osodoke, in a phone conversation.
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For instance, the University of Lagos Vice Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe was enmeshed in a N5 billion mismanagement allegation, a development that was said to be responsible for abandoned projects on the campus and lack of development.
The United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor has published its “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” and the report indicts Nigeria on many violations of Human Rights.
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, has urged the Nigerian government to publish the full list of those granted state pardon.
“Despite being blessed with over 40 known types of solid minerals, the Nigerian mining industry is not contributing optimally to the country’s economy, accounting for only 0.26% of the country’s GDP” the report noted.
The government has not kept up with efficient and timely publishing of financial statements to show how monies are spent in the country.
The state government’s award of twelve different contracts worth N456.504 million for supply of notebooks on August 28, 2019 however revealed the connections between all the companies on the commissioner’s list.
