Data gathered by RipplesMetrics has shown that no fewer than 8,734 Nigerians were reported killed in various insecurity incidents that occurred between January to December of...
At least 63 Government-Owned Enterprises (GOEs) would receive N3.77 trillion as expenditure for 2024, a document available on the website of the country’s budget office has...
Data gathered from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has shown that between January and September 2023, the Nigerian government paid N375.84 billion as electricity subsidy, RipplesMetics...
Over 200 million people living in Nigeria, who wished themselves a happy new year on January 1st 2023, looked forward to good prospects from the government...
In November, President Bola Tinubu presented his first appropriation bill to a joint session of the National Assembly, as the president of Nigeria, proposing to spend...
Villagers of Tudun Biri, a local community in the Igabi Local Government area of Kaduna State, on December 3 gathered to celebrate Maulud, the birthday of...
Between January and September, a total of N11.48 trillion was disbursed as allocation from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to all three teiers of government....
Section 81 of the Nigerian 1999 constitution (as amended) provides that one of the responsibilities of the president is to prepare the annual expenditure for every...
In July, members of a vigilante group in Eke, Udi Local Government were allegedly murdered by men of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army. The...
The general elections in February and March brought in a new president and 28 governors, 18 of whom were newly elected while 10 were re-elected during...
Buhari Abosede, a local trader in Ado-Ekiti market, struggles daily to make proper sales due to the rising cost of goods caused by the removal of...
Three states in Nigeria, with a combined estimated population of over 12 million people, would hold the first leg of the country’s off-cycle gubernatorial elections on...
Between 2019 and 2022, the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory recorded a total of N7.02 trillion as internally generated revenue, data from the National...
One of the New Year resolutions of most Nigerians was to see a major development across the economy. This, expectedly, should be guided by policies that...
Between the second quarter of 2022 and 2023, at least 23 states in Nigeria did not attract capital importation, findings by RipplesMetrics have shown. These states...
Data have shown that no fewer than 17 people were killed daily in road traffic accidents that occurred in 2022 within Nigeria. RippleMetrics analysed data from...
Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, shows that Nigeria has a public debt of N87.38 trillion of which N33.25 trillion is the total external...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) published that Nigeria’s public debt stock rose to N87.38 trillion in the second quarter of 2023 (April to July). The...
Two reports by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have shown how Nigeria’s crude oil, despite contributing a larger percentage in trade merchandise, contributes very little...
At the maiden meeting of the Federal Executive Council, Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, unveiled an eight-point agenda to turn the country’s economy around with an...
Context: RipplesMetrics calculated that a total of N110.2 billion has been announced for different palliatives in over 80 days of President Tinubu which has raised controversial...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently disclosed that Nigeria’s inflation rate rose from 22.79 per cent in June to 24.08 per cent in July 2023....
In 2020, former president, Muhammadu Buhari, gave a directive to the telecommunication industries to block mobile numbers that have failed to link their National Identification Numbers...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after an anxious wait by Nigerians, sent his ministerial nominees to the Senate through his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila in two...
On May 29, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office as the 16th president of Nigeria. The change in administration was greeted by mixed reactions owing to...
Despite being an oil-producing country, Nigeria still struggles with the availability of premium motor spirit, commonly called petrol or fuel for its over 200 million inhabitants...
In the first six months of 2023, several economic policies, amid an election and change in administration, have had an impact on the country’s inflation rate...
In a recent National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report, Nigeria’s capital importation for the first quarter of 2023 rose to $1.3 billion. This is 6.8 per...
Female participation in the politics and governance of Nigeria has been way down below average since the country’s transition to representative democracy in 1999. Nigerian women...
In the first quarter of the year between January and March 2023, 11 states in Nigeria, including the Federal Capital Territory, increased their domestic debts by...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed at least 23 people into different positions one month after he assumed office as the 16th president of Nigeria on...
Despite several gloomy events and policies that rocked Nigeria during the first three months of 2023, the country’s foreign trade in goods hit N12 trillion in...
As the tenures of some Nigerian governors draw to a close, we take a look at the performance of five more governors who are preparing to...
In continuation of assessing the performance of outgoing governors leaving office by May 29, five more states‘ fiscal performance in the last seven years will be...
On May 29, 2023, the transfer of power from 17 state governors to their successors is scheduled to take place, about two months from today. These...
Despite the significant inflow of money into the coffers of Nigerian states, from the federation account, residents still face misery. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)...
It is just a few hours to the 2023 general elections and the leading candidates have been identified as Peter Obi, Bola Tinubu, and Atiku Abubakar....
Nigerian banks are experiencing a period of growth, and it is expected to continue in the coming months. The volume of financial transactions performed electronically by...
The exchange rates of the Naira to other trading currencies are important factors that shape the volume and value of items imported into Nigeria. As a...
This is the concluding part of comparison of how the Nigerian economy has performed under the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan...
In recent days, the media had been inundated with commentaries by critics, especially of the All Progressives Congress (APC) hue, slamming former President Olusegun Obasanjo. This...
Christmas celebration for Nigerian families in 2022 will be different as a result of the country’s struggle with the highest inflation in more than 17 years....
The Central Bank of Nigeria in the last two months has announced several policies that have raised eyebrows among Nigerians. From the new Naira notes to...
“Everything increased in price, salary just remained stagnant”, Joy Agnes, a low-income earner in Lagos was heard lamenting as she tried to bargain a 100% increase...
A National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report has noted that the number of poor persons in Nigeria has increased to 133 million. This is a massive...
The 2023 budget is currently with lawmakers for deliberation. The budget contains a total aggregate expenditure of N20.5 trillion. This is an 18.49% increase in aggregate...
The 10 ministries with the highest allocation in the 2023 budget proposal of N20.5 trillion submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari are namely: Federal Ministry of Finance,...
In April 2001 at Abuja, Heads of State and government of the African Union (AU), including the then President Olusegun Obasanjo, signed and made a commitment...
Another year, another budget exercise which is raising many more questions than answers. For the eighth and final time, President Muhammadu Buhari submitted Nigeria’s budget to...
At a time when Nigeria is facing serious revenue challenges, and states are considering cutting work force to deal with shrinking resources, one would think that...
