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How Poor Funding For Research, Low Technology Contributed To Lack Of Local Covid-19 Vaccine Production
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 Institute of Medical Research is surviving on international grant. There is no budgetary provision for NIMR. Majority of the things they are using are programmed and…
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INFOGRAPHICS: 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill
After a meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari has assented the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N982,729,695,343 into law. This disclosure was made by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Mr Umar El-Yakub. El-Yakub said that the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Act will largely focus on funding…
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4,000 Nigerian Children Orphaned In 16 Months
The World Bank has said that between March 2020 and July 2021, an estimated 4,000 children in Nigeria were orphaned as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statistical report released by the Bank experts at the Imperial College of London. The report also revealed that over 4,100 Nigerian children…
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Nigerians Trade N92.25m Bitcoin On Paxful
Despite the ban on cryptocurrency trading, Nigerians traded bitcoin volumes of over N92.25 million ($225K) on Paxful– a cryptocurrency trading platform– from March to June 2021. According to a source in Paxful, reported by the Punch Newspaper, from November 2020 to February 2021, trading volumes from Nigeria was about N73.8 million. The source said, “From…
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‘160m Children In Child Labour’
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nation International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has raised the alarm on the increasing number of child labour worldwide. The duo said that the number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide adding that nine million additional children were at risk as a result…
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Living On The Fringe: Sad, Sorry world Of Sokoto’s Almajirai
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. Around noon sometime in April 2021, Salisu* was sitting under the shade of a mango tree to ease himself off from the Sokoto sun. When this reporter…
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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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Nigeria Suffers Electricity Deficit, Clean Fuel, Others
The World Bank has said that Nigeria is among the three countries in the world with the largest electricity deficits in the world. The apex bank said during the last decade, a greater share of the global population gained access to electricity than ever before, however, the number of people without electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa…