Monitoring Spirits and Nigeria’s 2023 Elections: Feats, Faiths, and Fates
The organisation deployed its Election Portal, Dataphyte Election Portal (DEP) to report live election incidents and results from the country’s 174 local governments.
When they go Low: Lagos, Labour and Leisure
Lagos is characterised by high political participation but the least voter turnout. Several factors are responsible for this.
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President-elect Tinubu: Glimpses, Glitches, and Glints
Dataphyte was the first to give a detailed prediction of a clear win for Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the first round of elections, without a tie and a need for a run-off election.
February 25: Calm Down!
However, you can’t vote if you’re one of the 6.26 million registered voters without their Permanent Voters Card (PVC), according to data from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
President Atiku: Muslim grade, middle ground
From Dataphyte’s maths of the voting outcomes, Atiku’s path to the Presidency may be as narrow as a needle’s eye, but those who underestimate the ageing Don, like the Santadrios did the ageing Don Clericuzio, do so at their peril.
President Tinubu: Predilections and predictions
Dataphyte Research’s analysis of election trends since 1999 till date projects Senator Bola Tinubu to win Nigeria’s 2023 presidential race, except the majority of the people suddenly begin to consider the capacity of elected persons to deliver socioeconomic benefits to their constituents.
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PPO: Mirage, mistake, or miracle?
Never mind that the government has extended those 3 costly queues of January into February – the Naira queue till February 10, the PVC queues till February 5, and the fuel queues reserved for forever.
3 Costly Queues this Weekend
The average Nigerian will find herself/himself in one or more of three queues this weekend.
3 China-Africa Metaphors
Two decades ago, just as Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999, a young Nigerian afro-pop musician emerged with a rather funny stage name, ‘African China’.
22 Alphameric Data Points that Defined Nigeria in 2022 (Part 2)
About 4 of every 10 Nigerians are multidimensionally poor and experience deprivation in at least one of the Living standard-related deprivations that the National MPI 2022 captures for each household.
22 alphameric data points that defined Nigeria in 2022
Through the carefully crafted narrative, the variegated chart, and our varied art forms, we desire that, together, we can make sense of mined facts for informed perspectives and measured decisions throughout the year 2023.
2023 First Quarter: A Humbling January, Harsh February, and a Hopeful March ahead
A mix of excitement and expectation fills the air as the world counts down to the last seconds of the year after sunset.
A so Rocky Christmas: Buhari’s Ricey Yearnings, Pricey Year, and a Dicey Yuletide
This Christmas could be the last Muhammadu Buhari will celebrate in Aso Rock as a President if he does not run for Nigeria’s highest office in 2031.
Poorer Power to the People: Nigeria’s Politics of Population, Presumption and Privation (2)
Though a few of the less privileged are financially empowered and strategically positioned to serve the sectional elite interest, the majority of the people are left high and dry. Continue reading
Poorer Power to the People: Nigeria’s Politics of Population, Presumption and Privation (1)
As the economic fortunes and living standards of Nigerians decline by the day, with 133 of their country’s 211 million population poor, many are forced to leave the country.