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By May 2023, Chief Bola Tinubu is expected to be sworn in, having been announced as the president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission, after a contentious February 25 election.
From this ranking, data show that corruption is far worse today in Nigeria than it was in 2015 when Buhari came into office, contrary to the recent claim of the president that he had delivered on all his campaign promises, one of which was fighting corruption.
Several politicians had claimed that Emefiele’s hurried introduction of the naira redesign policy and his watertight implementation were meant to frustrate Tinubu and ensure he did not win the presidential election
Amid the crisis in the health sector, the Nigerian government led by President Muhammed Buhari has approved a total of N44.33 billion for Ministries, Departments, and Agencies as travel costs.
On Friday, December 2, it was widely reported that the Nigerian president accused state governors of pocketing local government funds.
The just past rainy season heralded unprecedented flooding and flood-related devastations across Nigeria. According to the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Nigeria recorded 612 fatalities, 1.43 million homeless, and 874 thousand farmlands and homes were partially or entirely destroyed.
Born on 29 May 1960, Dapo Abiodun is the 4th democratically elected governor of Ogun state, elected in 2019. Although his journey, particularly getting the ticket of his party and eventually winning the gubernatorial election, wasn’t an easy ride for him, by May 2023, Dapo would complete his tenure as the state governor.
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.
A review of Anambra State’s budget performance report for the first quarter of 2022 shows that the State’s internally generated revenue (IGR) for the first quarter (Q1) of this year fell short of its prior expectations. This was noted in the state’s First Quarter 2022 Budget Performance Report.
There has been increased agitations for the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CNB), Mr Godwin Emefiele, to resign his position or for the President to fire him.
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”.
A total sum of $1.5 billion was committed to the project in two batches of $750 million (December 2018 and December 2020) by the World Bank. While this money is a grant to state governments through the Federal government, it is a loan to the federal government.
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The presidential pardon which is a component of executive power is backed by section 175 (1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
At the end of 2021, 15.23 million passengers travelled through Nigeria’s domestic and international airports. This is according to the latest Air Transportation Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
