This year Africa's largest democracy celebrated its Democracy Day on the 12th of June. Every year, s...

The recent news reports of violent rapes and murder of women in Nigeria underscores the challenges faced by many women where few cases of physical and sexual acts of violence are reported to the police, and where even much fewer cases lead to a criminal conviction....

More than 82 million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day, according to the National Bureau of Statistics....

We polled tweets from over 18,000 people on Twitter over a period of two weeks from the 23rd of April till the 6th of May, 2020 to find what out what Nigerians resident in the country were thinking of the president....

According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Ebonyi, Nasarawa and Osun have the m...

For local entrepreneurs wanting to start and operate a small business in Nigeria, location matters as large differences exist throughout the country in the business regulatory environment. We take a look at the latest subnational Doing Business Report for Nigeria by the World Bank....

In Nigeria, there seems to be a wide disparity in educational attainment levels between the northern and southern part of the country....

We took a look at the debt profile of all the states in Nigeria covering the period of 2011 to 2018, to find out which ones have been sustainably managing their debts....

According to the Debt Management Office in Nigeria, for most of the last decade, the external debt p...

Over the period of 2011 to 2018, state governments in Nigeria accrued a total revenue (Federal Allocation and Internal Revenue) of over US$125 billion....

Debt per capita is how much debt a government has per citizen. According to Investopedia, it is...

Borrowing by the state governments and the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria has been increasing at an average annual rate of 10.2%, faster than the national GDP growth over the same period....

Yobe state in 2018 was the most dependent on Federal funds for its revenue. Only Lagos and Ogun have...

2018 See Revenue Drive by State Governments Hit A Milestone Taking a look at the internally gen...

Nigerian Farmers Agriculture is one of the mainstays of the Nigerian economy, and we took at look at...

According to Unesco, adult illiteracy is defined as the percentage of the population aged 15 ye...

Harvard’s Center for International Development has created the Economic Complexity Ranking, based on the diversity of exported goods by each country...

According the latest Internet Users figures released by Internet World Stats, in 2019, Nigeria had t...

Nigeria might be the biggest economy in Africa but has to stand on the sidelines as other countries dominate the passport power rankings....

An African perspective of Gallup's Law and Order Index in 2019, a worldwide measure that reveals how safe -- or insecure -- people feel in their neighborhood and how confident they are in their local police....