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A review of the regular operational report of the Nigerian Electricity System Operators shows that electric energy produced did not exceed 120,000,000 kilowatts hour (KWh) for any day in March 2021. More so, the electricity produced was less than 100,000,000 KWh for nine days in the same period.
The last few years saw an increase in the Life Expectancy of people living in Nigeria. Data from the World Bank showed that in Nigeria, the female gender life expectancy (55.24 years) is higher than their male counterparts (53.45 years).
In the last four years, Nigeria’s electricity generation could only meet 4% of the demand of its population. The country’s power supply barely met 5% of the national peak electricity demand in 2017. Subsequently, there was a decline to 4.4%, 3.6%, and 3.2% of the population’s electricity demand met, in 2018, 2019, and 2020 respectively.
The World Water Day is commemorated every 22nd of March since 1993. The day is set apart to celebrate the significance of water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis.
“the absence of description of the purpose of funds released to MDAs makes it difficult to establish accountable expenditure.”
COVID-19 daily payment is missing on the FG’s Open Treasury Portal
The Ministry of Niger-Delta, headed by Godswill Akpabio awarded contracts to companies that did not meet the basic requirements set out in Section 16 (6) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007;
For his report on how government institutions mismanaged ₦ 1.69 Billion COVID-19 funds, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) on Friday announced Aderemi Ojekunle of Dataphyte as one of the winners of the centre’s prize for pandemic reporting.
Yesterday, social and print media, albeit blogs, were awash with news alleging President Buhari appointed Senior Police Officer, Zanna Mohammad Ibrahim as the Acting Inspector General of Police;
The Oyo state government refused to disclose its expenditure on the state’s three major farm sites;
TEN QUESTIONS STATE-OWNED CORPORATION, NNPC SHOULD ANSWER
Nigerians may have a water resource challenge on their hands in the coming years. Adding to this problem is water resource management and all the uncertainty around proposed policies.
Seventeen years have passed since the enactment of the Child Rights Act, and we’re left wondering if the best interest of the child is Nigeria’s primary consideration.
Nigeria is a country blessed with many resources. A young vibrant population, abundant mineral resources (which are either not fully explored or whose potentials are exploited by only a few in power). Besides, the country’s diaspora population has swag when it comes to impact. Or how do you beat the remittances of US$25 billion which according to PwC, represented 6.1% of GDP in 2018?
The Nigeria Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative (NEITI) audit report shows that Akwa Ibom State spent a total of NGN947 billion out of NGN1,515 billion of her total revenue on capital expenditure for a period of five years i.e. 2012 – 2016. This accounts for 63% of the total revenue accrued to the state within the specified period.
