Data reports

IBRAHIM Akanbi, 12, was nervous as he paced up and down in his parents’ living room. For over 12 hours, he and the rest of the household have been in the dark due to power outage. His hope for a quick restoration of power supply by the…
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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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The ICIR editor, Ajibola AMZAT, counted the number of keywords in Buhari's Democracy Day speech and reported that though the president’s choice of words rings true to his election promise, not much has changed since 2015. PRESIDENT…
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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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Aderemi Ojekunle THE Federal government has cut the budget of the Ministry of Health and other key ministries such as education, power, and agriculture. This is amidst the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and inadequate health infrastructure…
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By, Paul ADEYEYE A REVIEW of the Revised 2020 Budget exclusively obtained by DATAPHYTE indicates that the Federal Government has reduced the total budget size by only ₦84.71 billion. Against the background that the government initially …
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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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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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By, Paul Adeyeye A recent DATAPHYTE occasional paper revealed that budgetary provision to some of the top five most critical sector’s of Nigeria’s economy accounted for only 17 percent of the initial 2020 budget. While these five key…
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TROOPS of the Nigerian army have reported killing twenty Boko Haram terrorists on Sunday in a fierce encounter at the northwest of Baga town of Borno State. In a press release by the Nigerian Army headquarters, nine soldiers were said to…
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