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Nigeria’s Stock Exchange (NSE) market hit the ₦17 trillion jackpot, owing to favourable stocks from key sectors. Sectors that have proved COVID-proof. And speaking of COVID, we see NTDs should also concern Nigeria’s health sector, besides the pandemic.
SARS-CoV-2 and EndSARS are still wreaking havoc to a contracted Nigerian economy. Elsewhere, we see bad roads claimed more lives than COVID from July to September. And for Lagos, Sanwo Olu promises to rekindle hope for 2021.
Notoriety is attained through exclusivity; such is the case for the exclusive MVP list for EndSARS supporters. Already there are whispers of frozen bank accounts and no-fly lists. And now, a law suit. In other news, two businesses, private and public, are defying covid-related downturns, scoring revenue increments. All these and more in today’s numbers to ponder.
On today’s Numbers to Ponder, we review interesting developments on COVID-19 and the unending SARS. Elsewhere, Nigeria plans to borrow from Brazil to revitalise the Agricultural sector.
The 2021 Appropriation Bill: Debts, Excesses & Deductions
It seems budget defense is all the news. And why wouldn’t it? As Nigeria closes the chapters of an arduous 2020, all eyes are on the 2021 budget. Already we noted the budget’s reliance on borrowings and its economic implications. But perhaps what’s of moot are the misplaced priorities of some government workers, as evidenced by their expenditure. And in other news, we question the cost of trivialising healthcare, fatal.
On today’s N2P, we follow the COVID-19 money trail, plug leaks in Oil & Gas, and justify a $1.2 Billion loan. Elsewhere, students ponder their plight, with no end in sight for the ASUU strike.
On today’s Numbers to Ponder (N2P), we look through the curtains of the novel SWAT. And speaking of SWAT, we found that floods killed at least 3 times more than EndSARS. Elsewhere, examination malpractice led to the WAEC council withholding a whooping 215,149 results!
23.1% was Nigerian’s unemployment rate prior to the pandemic and EndSARS. Now with over a trillion in damages, and an uncertain 2021, we question how we got here. And according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), this could have been avoided. In ACLED’s civil unrest projections, it identified 37 countries including Nigeria that would face major challenges post pandemic.
First came the novel coronavirus dubbed SARS-CoV-2, and now, his half brother EndSARS. A non-biological, arguably just as lethal strain that isn’t going anywhere. While COVID attacks the upper respiratory tract, the other is less subtle, as seen in the Lekki Massacre. Speaking of the coronavirus, reports note a 32% spike in live cases (stands at 3028) in the week just gone by, albeit with fewer tests.
Dataphyte shines at 2020 PWC Media Excellence Award as reporter carts away prize.
DATAPHYTE To Induct 155 Campus Journalist Ambassadors
Dataphyte reporter, Aderemi Ojekunle to speak on COVID-19 fraud at African Investigative Journalism Conference, AIJC.
On Today’s numbers to ponder, we review unremitted funds, the aftermath of the novel virus and aggregate expenditures.
Today’s Numbers 2 Ponder features an unyielding sector draining the nation’s account, mind-numbing statistics on birth registration; present on the list are also court fines, loots and one rebuttal.
