A review of the 2022 budgeted expenditure of top tertiary institutions in the country reveals heavy recurrent spendings and very light capital expenditures
The average cost of making a pot of Jollof Rice, for a family of five went up from N8007.50 in Q3 2021 to N8595 at the end of Q1, 2022.
A Dataphyte review of Nigeria’s unemployment data between Q3 2018 and the recent Q4 2020, has shown that about four in every ten persons in the South Eastern part of Nigeria are unemployed.
On the 7th of April, Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, noted that the country would need up to four trillion naira for 2022 subsidy payment, up from the earlier projected N3 trillion. This development was blamed on rising oil prices amid high global demand.
A Dataphyte review of Osun State’s 2022 budget has shown the state plans to spend N995 million on brand new vehicles for the governor’s office. Gboyega Oyetola-led government had spent N536.942 million (between January and June 2021) for the purchase of brand new cars for governor’s office in 2021. Although N629 million was the amount originally budgeted for the expenditure in 2021.
The Osun State University is at the centre of controversies over the supply of customised computers worth N200 million to the varsity.
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“I have been shot, please pray for me” these were the words of Chinelo before she died after the unfortunate attack by bandits on a Kaduna bound train on March 28, 2022.
Three months after Dataphyte’s investigation exposing how Teachers’ Quarters projects in Ebonyi were abandoned, the Ebonyi state government has completed one of the projects.
A World Bank report has noted that the number of poor persons in Nigeria will rise to 95.1 million in 2022. The number of poor people was 89.0 million in 2020 and would be 95.1 million in 2022. This would mean that 6.1 million more persons would have fallen beneath the poverty line between 2020 and 2022, a 6.7% increase.
Aside from the inflated cost of contracts, Dataphyte’s investigation shows that three of the four companies awarded contracts on December 17,2020 are owned by the same individual.
For the second time within 6 months, the Abuja-Kaduna train has come under attack by terrorists, leaving many Nigerians to question the Buhari-led government on its primary constitutional responsibility which he swore to uphold – the protection of lives and properties.
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The crisis rocking South-eastern Nigeria remains a great concern as attacks on police stations by gunmen have continues as threat to security of lives and properties in Imo state.
In 2021, 111,062 Cholera cases were suspected in Nigeria with a total death figure of 3,604 in thirty four states of the country.
Nigeria spent N310.497 billion on domestic debt servicing in the 4th quarter of the year, N223 billion in October, N34.100 billion in November and another N53.044 billion in December.
Electricity in the country has been epileptic in the past month and it has been blamed on poor supply from the country’s national grid. Power generation companies have also attributed the issues to the N1.6 trillion debt owed to them by the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc.
