Nearly two years after the last Unemployment data was published by the National Bureau of Statistics, the incessant increase in the unemployment rate in Nigeria keeps getting quite alarming. The number of unemployed people in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, increased to over 21 million...
Orodata Science (ODS) and the Alliance for Community Action (ACA) are happy to announce a collaboration project Tipende – a data-driven social accountability project. The project will include capacity development on data reporting technologies towards evidence-based social accountability and advocacy. It will equip citizens and civil society organizations (CSOs) with skills and knowledge to...
Traveling 6,000 miles in search for knowledge Late February 2018 I was in New York and Washington DC for a business and tourism trip. I had emerged the winner of the Quartz Atlas for Africa competition, after training over 600 media professionals on using theAtlas chart...
Corruption has been around for thousands of years as evidence provides, however in recent years, it has attracted much attention and deliberation. This recent attention can be attributed to the fact that there has been an increase in awareness as well as an increase in corruption practices. Corruption is...
On August 21, 2019, I received a rare invitation from Michael Bloomberg to be a featured speaker and guest at Bloomberg’s Africa Business Media Innovators 2019 forum in Dakar, Senegal, on 10–12 November. This event was co-hosted by Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith and...
Twittering without facts The conflict between Herders and farmers for Scarce Resources in Nigeria has been an age old one which has seen both sides destroy lives and properties in deadly battles, attacks and reprisal attacks. Mid 2016 I happened upon a discussion on my twitter...
The emergence of a worthwhile opposition in person of former military leader General Muhamadu Buhari a Muslim in the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria, the fifth election since 1999 when the military handed power to elected civilians coincided with a period of great tension between...
Money, medicine and poor record keeping In Nigeria, what percentage of our government owned medical institutions take payments from drugs producing companies? How many physicians take payments from drugs companies to prescribe certain drugs to patients? Are there laws supporting such disclosure of financial information or...
Training and Mentoring Citizens Building Civic Tech Solutions to Hold Government Accountable at Editor’s Lab dBootcamp by Blaise Aboh, Co-founder and Lead Data Analytics and Design Government exists to deliver necessary services to the public. However, government has been failing in its responsibilities, while a few...
By Blaise Aboh, Co-founder, Lead Data Design and Analytics All over the world, digitally enabled governments are transforming the way they work, organize, and engage with citizens. They are formulating policies, making promises, crafting strategies to enhance and transform public service delivery to meet the needs...