Data reports

NIGERIAN passport allows access to only 46 countries without a visa, whereas other African countries such as Seychelles and South African passports can gain entry into 151 and 100 countries respectively without a visa. The rating has put…
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ON 22nd September 2016 the Federal Government signed the Paris Agreement as part of its commitment to join global efforts to reduce climate change impacts due to increased emission of Green House Gases (GHG). On 16th May 2017 the agreement…
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SO far, the Federal Government has released N667 billion for the implementation of capital projects in the 2019 budget, representing 32 percent of the total capital allocation of N2.09 trillion for the year, The ICIR has found. The…
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AT least N1.534 trillion has been received by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) since its inception in 2001. This amount was allocated to the NDDC for expenditures on projects to reverse the huge infrastructural deficit in the…
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GOVERNOR Ben Ayade of Cross River state has presented an appropriation bill of N1.1 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year despite the obvious dwindling revenue. The governor who is known for proposing unrealistic budgets in past years, while…
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FOR the first time, African travellers have liberal access to over half the continent, the 2019 Africa Visa Openness Index published by the African Union Commission and African Development Bank, has revealed. According to the 32 pages…
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By Dataphyte THE federal government has deemed it fit that two thousand naira (N2,000) would be enough in the year 2020 to provide for the healthcare of each of the estimated 200 million Nigerians. This is according to the meager 427.3…
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THE Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Babatunde Fowler had said on Wednesday, October 23 at the West Africa Tax Administration Forum in Abuja that the country loses about $15 billion, an equivalent of about N4.57…
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ONLY three states including Lagos, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom can meet and finance their recurrent expenditure obligation with states-owned revenue without receiving the monthly allocation from the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC).…
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THE federal government is to service its debt with N2.7 trillion,  an equivalent of 13 percent of its debt in spite of its plan to borrow another N1.6 trillion in the 2020 fiscal year. Data from the Debt Management Office show that…
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