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...

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...