FG to spend N3.85bn on feeding, travel in 2023
AMID Nigeria’s economic slump, the president and the vice president will be spending a total of N3.85 billion on feeding and travels in 2023.
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2023: CSOs flag Imo, Lagos, Kano, 19 others as states with high manipulation risks
AHEAD of the 2023 general election, a coalition of 10 civil society organisations (CSOs), including Dataphyte, has identified 22 high-risk states that election stakeholders in the country and well-meaning Nigerians should pay closer attention to.
#DailyDataCard: Attacks on INEC Offices 2019-2022
#DailyDataCard: Attacks on INEC Offices 2019-2022
Kaduna Records 84.3% Budget Implementation, Highest amongst North-West States
Other states’ performance shows that Katsina State had a recurrent capital expenditure composition of 50% to 50%. In Kebbi State, it is 59% to 41%, 71% to 29% in Sokoto State, and 86% to 14% in Zamfara State.
3 Costly Queues this Weekend
The average Nigerian will find herself/himself in one or more of three queues this weekend.
Ekiti Outperforms other Southwest States in Q3 2022 Budget Implementation
Thus, while four states budgeted over 50 per cent of their expenditure on capital items in the southwest region, only one state implemented over 50 per cent of its spending on capital expenditure.
Kogi State Records 69.18 per cent, Tops North-Central States in Regional Budget Implementation
Kogi State, by the end of the second quarter of 2022, had the best budget implementation performance amongst the states in the North-Central region. The state implemented 69.18 per cent of its first two-quarters pro rata budget. It budgeted N72.95 billion and spent N50.46 billion.
Amidst Nigeria’s Unending Fuel Scarcity, transport costs and food prices increased in December 2022
The scarcity naturally led to most marketers selling petrol above the official pump price of N169 per litre. Petrol costs as much as N330 per litre in many parts of the country.
Ebonyi State Stands out among South-East States in Budget Implementation
Imo State recorded a 52.8 per cent performance, having spent N100,7 billion of its proposed 190.73 billion. The other state’s expenditure performance is 40.77 per cent for Enugu State, 31.93 per cent for Abia State, and 31.75 per cent for Anambra State.
#DailyDataCard: Age distribution of Candidates for the 2023 Elections
#DailyDataCard: Age distribution of Candidates for the 2023 Elections
Regional Budget Implementation Report: Ekiti Tops other Southwest States
In Osun and Ekiti states, 45 per cent of their agricultural expenditure was spent on capital expenditure. In Ondo State, 19 per cent of its agricultural expenditure was spent on capital expenditure, and 11 per cent was spent in Lagos State on capital expenditure.
Subnational Debt Profile in Four Charts
The total domestic debt profile of subnational governments stood at N5.36 trillion by the end of the third quarter of 2022. Though the Debt Management Office (DMO) didn’t give a breakdown of the state government’s foreign debt, state government debt contributed 16.74 per cent of the total debt profile as of June 2022.
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’.
How fuel scarcity, rising inflation is affecting SMEs
“Whether you make sales or not, you will pay money daily for electricity,” a trader told Dataphyte, revealing that he and his boss (the owner of the business), depending on the business thriving and a lower cost of running the business to live daily.
60 civilians, security personnel killed, 80 kidnapped across the country in first fortnight of January
Non-state actors killed at least 60 civilians and security personnel in the first two weeks of the year, according to data published by the Nigeria Security Tracker.