Cross River H1 External Debt Servicing Increases By 256% To N7.8Bln
While Lagos placed first with Kaduna coming in second in terms of sums, Cross River which places third witnessed the highest jump in terms of percentage difference.
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Cooking Gas Price Increases By 86.6% In One Year – NBS
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- October 24, 2022
By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN The average price of 5kg of cooking gas increased from N4,456.56 in August to N4,474.48 in September, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has stated. It stated in its “Cooking Gas Price Watch’’ for September 2022 released on Saturday in Abuja that the September price was a 0.40 per cent increase
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Cross River, Kogi, Ogun Top Mineral Production In 2021 – Report
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- August 9, 2022
By News Agency of Nigeria Aggregate production of mineral products in Nigeria peaked at 89.48 million tonnes in 2021 with Ogun, Kogi, and Cross River States recording the highest output, says a report by the Federal Statistics Bureau. The National Bureau of Statistics’ mineral production report for 2021 showed that national production grew by 39.19
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Federal Government To Deploy Technology In 2023 Agricultural Census
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- July 1, 2022
By Patrick Obia Listen To The Report The Federal Government of Nigeria has concluded plans to conduct the 2023 agricultural census, three decades after. The Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of National Bureau of Statistics, NBS Prince Adeyemi Adeniran made this known while speaking as he declared open the training exercise for
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After Spending N6 Billion On Boreholes, Jigawa Still Without Potable Water
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- September 7, 2021
By Elijah Ojonicko Akoji Jigawa State Ministry of Water Resources made a claim in a report that potable water supply has increased to 90 percent in the State after spending nearly N6 billion to build and rehabilitate boreholes. Jigawa is now the first State in northern Nigeria where nearly all the residents have access to
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Counting The Cost: Oil Spill Destroys Lives And Livelihoods In Nigeria’s Niger Delta
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- May 13, 2021
By Arinze Chijioke, International Policy Digest Arinze Chijioke traveled to Opuama, a community in Nigeria’s Delta State, to report on the impact of an oil spill that had devastated many local families. The time was 10 am in late March. Over 60 women, old and young, gathered outside the house of 90-year-old Julius Loboh, the
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Nigeria’s Worsening Poverty Index
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- May 17, 2020
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The recent poverty index report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that about 82.9 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty. This figure represents 40.1 per cent of the nation’s total population estimated at about 200 million. This is contained in its “2019 Poverty and Inequality” report using the Nigerian Living
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Cross River And Other States In Fiscal Distress
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- February 24, 2020
By CrossRiverWatch Admin None of Nigeria’s 36 States could fully fund their 2019 budget with funds they received from both the federation account and internally generated revenues. In most cases, the funds couldn’t pay up to 50 per cent of their expenditures, writes Chineme Okafor and published by This Day Newspaper. A new quarterly report