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Twelve months after, the Nigerian government has failed to meet all the five demands made by the youths during the ENDSARS protest. This was disclosed in a joint statement by Enough is Enough (EiE) and other civil society organizations including the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), The Interactive for Social Impact (The Interactive), and YIAGA Africa.
For his timely story on a drug trial that went wrong 24 years previously, retirees being denied their pensions in Osun State and the underserved communities drinking from contaminated streams, Dataphyte’s multimedia journalist Samad Uthman has been shortlisted for the Thompson Foundation Young Journalist award 2021.
Women committing crimes in Nigeria are on the rise, and they are more involved in advanced-fee-fraud. According to a National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report titled Men and Women in Nigeria 2020, between 2017 and 2019, a total of 2,505 crimes were committed by women. Of this figure, 804 was advanced-fee-fraud.
At a public presentation and breakdown of the 2022 appropriation bill last week, Muhammad Nami, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) chairman, disclosed that compared to the population of over 200 million people, many Nigerians are evading tax.
Five federal government agencies have paid N790 million into some accounts without payment descriptions, findings by Dataphyte covering a financial span of three months has revealed.
Samad Uthman, a journalist with the leading media and data analytics organization, Dataphyte, has been shortlisted for the West Africa Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA) 2021.
On Monday, at the opening of a 2-day South-West zonal public hearing on the review of revenue allocation formula organized by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Governor, demanded special status recognition for the state.
The Nigerian healthcare sector has faced a series of challenges, with multiple reports noting alarming deterioration in health service delivery.
Yar Terhemba, 38, has lived in Mbalom, an agrarian community in Gwer-East Local Government Area of Benue state, all his life. For most of his youth, he cultivated five hectares of land annually, producing soya beans and rice. Depending on the coincidence of market days with his harvest, Terhemba either sells his produce at Igbor market, which is 19 kilometre from his farm, or Ikpayongo market, a 33 kilometre stretch away.
The Nigerian economy continued its recovery from the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics show that the country’s total output grew from 0.51% in the first quarter of 2021 to 5.01% in the second quarter when output from the two quarters are compared with their equivalent quarters in 2020, that is, a year on year (y-o-y) comparison.
The twelfth round of the Nigeria COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey (NLPS) revealed that the share of urban youth attending school or training was 61%, significantly higher than the share of rural youth (49%).
Nigeria’s minister of police affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi revealed that the government approved over N4 billion in the 2021 budget to fuel police vehicles in all the police commands of the country. This sum is meant to provide fuel for Police vehicles ranging from sedans, pickups, and armoured vehicles used in operations.
The Government of Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria desire to cater to the needs and interests of the less privileged, particularly the physically challenged, was demonstrated in 2017 when the government awarded the contract for the construction of a modern rehabilitation centre in Maigana, Soba Local Government Area.
Payments for federal constituency projects from 2018 to 2021, published on the open treasury portal, do not match what was budgeted in the Appropriation Acts for those years, Dataphyte investigations have shown.
The good people of Nigeria will remain very poor for a long time to come, the 2021 report of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) revealed. Nigeria’s chances of achieving Goal 1 of the SDGs, which is the attainment of zero poverty among its people by the year 2030, appear slim, as the country’s poverty headcount is soaring high still, instead of reducing.
