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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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Nigeria Imposes Fresh Nationwide Lockdown
The Nigerian government has ordered a partial lockdown across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as fears of a possible new wave of the coronavirus looms. The National Incident Manager Mukhtar Mohammed, who is a member of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, announced the new directive on Monday during a…
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Minus 6.1% Growth: The Steepest the Nigeria Economy Has Gone In 10 Years
Major Factors That Influenced The Economic Recession The reports released by the National Bureau of statistics on Saturday, November 21, stated that Nigeria has plunged into economic recession for the second time in 5 years. Considering that Covid-19 gave the citizens a fair share of ‘personal economic recession’ in the wake of 2020 during the…