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The blasting often has a negative effect on the school building. However, it is having a devastating impact on school children, who are already beginning to have hearing difficulties.
From health to gender, security, agriculture, extractives and other sectors, Dataphyte covered all the pertinent events that unfolded in the country in 2021 and “made it make sense” for Nigerians, bringing deeper insights into the issues.
Nigeria is blessed with about forty-four mineral resources. Despite the enormous resource, Nigeria has struggled to maximise potentials for economic growth, employment creation and revenue diversification with its natural resources.
Nigeria recorded a 17.95% increase in mineral production in 2020 over 2019 despite the many challenges, both internal like insecurity and global like the coronavirus outbreak, faced by the country.
The Sectoral Distribution of Value Added Tax (VAT) released by the National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that ₦338.94 billion was generated as VAT in the first quarter of 2020. This amounts to an increase of 15.7 percent from the VAT receipt of ₦293 billion in the first quarter of 2019. Hike in VAT from 5 percent to 7.5 percent is purportedly responsible for this revenue increase.
