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One of the revenue sources for states is road taxes. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), they are daily levies paid by commercial transporters operating within the state.
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.
The number of women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) has been on the rise in the last 3 years, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicates.
Women in the northern states of Nigeria do receive less antenatal care when they are pregnant, unlike the majority of their peers in southern parts of the country, a 2020 Statistical Report on Women and Men by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows.
The results of the twelfth round of the Nigeria COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey on the job aspirations of urban and rural youths raise critical policy questions about the country’s achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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 price of petrol in Abia State was the highest in four months out of the past eight months. The average prices of petrol (PMS) in the state for four consecutive months (November 2020-February 2021) was N179, N176, N174 and N180, a review of the recent data release of the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
Say you were the next Governor of Kano State, how many classrooms or new schools do you think you would need to build over the next six years before 10,000 newborns in 2021 begin Primary School? Arriving at a statistically precise estimate requires the availability of data.
For Today’s Numbers to Ponder, 1.9 million people are displaced from their homes in the North-East. The figure reported by UNICEF, is another alarming figure, a day after NBS reported high numbers of poor people in the region. Away from Northeast, the country’s opposition party has challenged VP Yemi Osinbajo to defend himself in the alleged N5.8 billion NEMA scam. The Government is already looking for ways to weather a pandemic tsunami on the economy and may further review the crude oil price in the 2020 budget down to $20 per barrel. Another FG effort will start evacuating about 4,000 stranded citizens across the world as a result of COVID-19 from today.
An analysis of the National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS) Gross Domestic Output figures has shown that Nigeria’s agro-allied industry has continuously been on the decline for most of the past thirty-eight years. The output from the industry has fallen from N5,100 billion in 1981 to N4,598 billion in 2018. These figures show that the capacity of the agro-allied industry to process agriculture produce has been reducing even though agricultural production is increasing.
In recent years, the amount of loans committed to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has not only been low, but the news is also that it is actually getting lesser by the years. A National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data revealed that, between the year 2015 and 2017, the number of borrowers that gained access to loans within the various categories of MSMEs declined consistently and considerably (see chart below).
The Commercial Banks in Nigeria hold the largest value of customers’ deposits among other banking institutions, which include merchant banks, micro-finance banks, and others. Their time and savings deposits made up 97% of all deposits in the banking sector between May and December 2018, showing their gigantic capacity to create money in the economy through credits.
