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Damilola OJETUNDE 128 posts

Data Analyst, International Centre For Investigative Reporting, ICIR

Nigeria’s inflation rate spikes to 12.40 percent, highest in 24 months

Damilola OJETUNDE Jun 17, 2020

INFLATION rate in Nigeria has increased by up to 12.40 percent (year-on-year) in May 2020, indicating the highest level in 24 months, Consumer Price Index (CPI) of May 2020 has shown. The report, published by the National Bureau of…
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School re-opening: FG wants students to observe social distancing, but shortage of teachers and…

Damilola OJETUNDE Jun 2, 2020

MUDASHIRU Taiwo and Kehinde, senior secondary school two (SS2) students of the Federal Government Boys College (FGBC), Apo in the Federal Capital Territory are worried about the government’s plan to divide the class into morning and…
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Nigeria’s Q1 2020 GDP drops to 1.87 percent amidst COVID-19

Damilola OJETUNDE May 26, 2020

NIGERIA’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has dropped to 1.87 percent in the first quarter of 2020, the latest GDP report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reveals. According to the report, the drop in the GDP figure is as a result…
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Four in every 10 persons tested for COVID-19 in Nigeria is from Lagos

Damilola OJETUNDE May 20, 2020

LAGOS state has conducted 14,886 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests, representing 41.37 per cent of the entire tests done in the country, according to data from Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The data, as of May 17, shows…
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DATA: Why another lockdown may be inevitable as cases doubled 12 days after easing of lockdown

Damilola OJETUNDE May 17, 2020

THE number of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Nigeria has doubled between Monday, May 4, when the gradual ease of lockdown began in Lagos, Ogun, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Saturday, May 16. As it stands, the number…
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COVID-19: Nigeria ranks second out of 10 countries with highest confirmed cases in Africa

Damilola OJETUNDE May 9, 2020

NIGERIA, with a 16.4 percent infection rate is the second most infected country of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) out of the 10 countries with the highest number of confirmed cases in Africa, analysis by The ICIR reveals. The infection…
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Nigeria, ‘African giant’ plods slowly in the race to test for coronavirus

Damilola OJETUNDE Apr 28, 2020

NIGERIA ranks 31st on the African continent for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests per one million population out of 55 countries affected by the disease. As of April 27, data from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) shows…
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Despite restriction order, Nigeria records 5,125 percent increase in Covid-19 cases within one month

Damilola OJETUNDE Apr 20, 2020

NIGERIA has recorded over 5,000 percentage increase in COVID-19 cases within one month despite lockdown directives by the Federal Government in Lagos, Ogun, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and restriction order by other state…
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Five years after, less than half of poor Nigerian households benefit from FG’s cash transfer

Damilola OJETUNDE Apr 12, 2020

THE National Cash Transfer Office (NCTO) has confirmed to The ICIR that about 1,126,211 poor and vulnerable households are currently benefiting from the Federal Government's conditional cash transfer. This is less than half of the total…
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Okonjo Iweala posts 2019 photo to justify sharing of COVID 19 relief materials in Rwanda

Damilola OJETUNDE Apr 8, 2020

A PHOTOGRAPH shared on Wednesday afternoon by former Nigerian Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala to portray how the Rwandan government under President Paul Kagame shares food items to low-income households in the country amidst the…
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