The National Assembly has increased the 2021 budget by an extra ₦549bn, with the National Social Investment Programmes take 66% of the increment;NSIP since its inception met unemployment at 53.7%, and now ...
Read moreIn 2020, Dataphyte looks at the numbers that matter in the country, human interest stories, special reports, and investigations. Our stories covered health, education, agriculture, security, and the extractive sector. We exclusively ...
Read moreNigeria battled several health challenges amid a global pandemic in 2020; While the country’s response to the global pandemic is commendable, diverted resources marred its approach to its indigenous endemics; Chief of which remained ...
Read moreA total of 158 agencies scheduled for software acquisition and update in the 2021 budget;The total amount stands at ₦24.6 billion;A centralized approach would see the government spending less on software and ...
Read moreLagos artisanal fishermen complain of illicit fishing, dredging on waterways;Despite being among the world’s top producers in fisheries and aquaculture production, Nigeria loses $10 billion annually to illegal fishing according to the ...
Read moreOnce again, Engineer Seyi Makinde’s government engaged contractors for unspecified projects, this time 42 of them worth ₦5 billion;The Oyo State Bureau of Public Procurement (Oyo BPP) has some questions to answer ...
Read moreA week after Dataphyte’s story on the COVID-19 procurement data by the Federal Medical Centre Yola, the agency has updated its record. Recent data on the Nigeria Open Contracting Portal (NOCOPO) showed ...
Read moreOyo state government spent ₦17.5 million on creating job website;The award date, however, for the project is absent, hindering accountability and contravening transparency regulations; Oyo state Bureau of Public Procurement shuns FOI from ...
Read moreKidnappers abducted over 1,386 Nigerians from January to December 2019;This number increased in 2020 at 1,984 persons in just eleven months, estimating over ₦13.5 million in ransom between January – May;Abductions have ...
Read moreEarlier, Dataphyte established the mixed reactions that trailed the Cable Network News’ investigation that indicted the Nigerian Military. Chief amongst which was the Minister of Information who noted their findings to be ...
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