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Conditional Cash Transfer: Poverty Reduction Programme Marred By Ricketiness
This story is a result of Orodata’s Micro-Grant support to journalists to produce in-depth investigative and data-driven stories on thematic areas like Development, Healthcare, Covid-19, and Covid-19 Vaccine. It began with a 183 km journey from Lagos to Ede-South local government area of Osun state. According to the data made available by the National Social…
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Abacha Restituted Funds: Another Re-Loot In The Camouflage Of National Safety-Nets Projects?
This story is a result of Orodata’s Micro-Grant support to journalists to produce in-depth investigative and data-driven stories on thematic areas like Development, Healthcare, Covid-19, and Covid-19 Vaccine. Nigeria confirmed its first case on 27th February 2020, since then, the number of confirmed cases has risen exponentially. On March 29, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari announced a total…
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Levelling The Field: Improving Opportunities For Women Farmers In Nigeria
This story is a result of Orodata’s Micro-Grant support to journalists to produce in-depth investigative and data-driven stories on thematic areas like Development, Healthcare, Covid-19, and Covid-19 Vaccine. “The right resources could help rural women maximise economic opportunities, increase productivity, and improve food security, education and healthcare since women tend to reinvest in their households.”…
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COVID-19 And Its Impact On Rural Development In Zaria Local Government
This story is a result of Orodata’s Micro-Grant support to journalists to produce in-depth investigative and data-driven stories on thematic areas like Development, Healthcare, Covid-19, and Covid-19 Vaccine. Northern Nigeria is on the frontline of the Sahara Desert, where the effects of climate change manifest ominously as desert encroachment, erratic rainfall, and a drastic reduction…
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Orodata Science Micro-Grants For Data-Driven Investigative Journalism 2021 (Up to $5000)
Orodata Science is a Civic Technology organization that simplifies and democratizes public data to empower citizens with actionable information towards accountability and transparency.Orodata also strengthens the capacity of the media through data-driven and other digital technology initiatives. This program will support journalists to produce in-depth investigative data-driven stories on thematic areas. Grants worth up to…
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Nigeria now Boasts of over 100 Testing Laboratories
The Federal Government announced that Nigeria has over 100 laboratories dedicated to Covid-19 testing nationwide. According Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, Nigeria started the pandemic with 2 centres but now boasts of over 100 public and private testing centres. “Nigeria has so far availed itself creditably in the fight against Covid-19 through the deployment of…
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Nigeria’s High Rate of Maternal Mortality is Still Highly Underreported
Maternal mortality is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days following the delivery or termination of a pregnancy. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Nigeria accounts for almost 20 per cent of global maternal deaths. Globally, maternal mortality remains a major public health concern, especially in poorly resourced and developing…
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Nigeria Ranks No.2 Bitcoin Market in the World
Over the last five years, Nigeria has traded 60,215 bitcoins, valued at more than $566 million which, apart from the US, is the largest volume worldwide on Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace. The data scraped from Coin Dance shows from the beginning of May 2015 to the middle of November this year, bitcoin trade…
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27% Decline in Diaspora Remittance to Nigeria
Diaspora remittances into Nigeria fell by 27 percent, year-on-year (y/y) to $12.9 billion as at September 2020 from $17.6 billion in the corresponding period of 2019. The 27 percent decline is 3.9 percentage points higher than the 23.1 percent decline projected by the World Bank for the Sub Sahara Africa region in 2020. However, quarter-on-quarter,…
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30 Million Nigerians Affected as COVID-19 Increases Learning Poverty to 63% ― World Bank
The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the weaknesses of education systems around the world and might have increased Learning Poverty rate by 10 points, from 53 per cent to 63 per cent in low and middle-income countries like Nigeria, revealed a recent report by the World Bank. The report was titled “Realising the…