Data reports

THE N5.5 billion budget for the purchase of new cars for senators of the ninth assembly will get the Nigerian Police Force at least 36 Robinson R-44 Raven II helicopters, at $500,000 each, meaning that each state can get one. Even if…
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NOT LESS than six states across the Federation recorded 93 per cent of all confirmed cases of Lassa fever in the country, the Federal Government has disclosed. This casualty figure (93 per cent) accounts for 241 persons in Edo State…
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THE International Budget Partnership (IBP) has ranked Nigeria low for lack of transparency and poor public engagement in the development and implementation of its national budget. In the survey tagged Open Budget Index – the world’s only…
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DATA from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), on Monday, showed that 28,969 Nigerians were killed from May 2015 till June 2019. The data captures weekly the number of casualties, who lost their lives due to various causes, ranging from…
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NIGERIA is considered the largest economy in Africa with a Gross Domestic Product change rate of 1.9 per cent in 2018 and projected to hit 2.1 percent by the International Monetary Fund in 2019, thereby making her a huge potential…
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THE Nigerian military's total spendings rose by 137 per cent between the four-year term of the former President Goodluck Jonathan and the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari. According to the data obtained by The ICIR from the Office…
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THE Association of Resident Doctors of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) Amaku Awka, Anambra State, says the indefinite strike action embarked upon by members of the association will continue. Obinna…
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HAD the  Nigerian Financial Intelligent Unit (NFIU) been granted autonomy to operate for the past 10 years, with its new guidelines on financial autonomy to local governments, it would have helped the 774 local governments across the…
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By Theophilus Abbah AN analysis of trade statistics has shown that trade relations between China and Nigeria is heavily to the disadvantage of Nigeria. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that Nigeria recorded N6.83…
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THE 2019 general elections might have come and gone, though, leaving moments that tested the integrity of Nigerian democracy. Nine states governors have served two terms as the chief executive officer of their respective states. The…
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