On April 7, 1994, the pockets of mutual interethnic hostilities between Hutus and Tutsis morphed into a genocide of historical proportions. The ethnic cleansing did not come as a surprise, regardless of the debates over it being systematic or sporadic in execution. It bore the same strain of subrational cruelty and mass hysteria that seedlings […]
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The International Budget Partnership (IBP) in collaboration with Dataphyte has published a budget credibility report for the health sector in Niger State. The report, which focuses on the budget performances and challenges in the state’s health sector, resulted from extensive research by the organisations. The report noted a significant reduction in the budget deviation of
Education, Healthcare, and Security took the back seat in the election coverage. Dataphyte, an organisation dedicated to providing access to data, research services, and training, has released a comprehensive study examining the agenda-setting role of the Nigerian media, particularly in election coverage. Titled “The Media’s Agenda-Setting Role: Insights from Coverage of Nigeria’s 2023 Elections,” the
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Talking Twitter and Nigeria’s 2023 Elections On June 4, 2021, the Nigerian government banned the operations of microblogging site, Twitter, stating that the company’s activities are “capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence”. Some have argued that the government’s action was not really predicated on a democratic concern about Twitter’s influence on Nigeria’s politics, but a vindictive
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2023 began with a ‘new’ wave of digital technologies: Generative AI platforms and the ‘AI-tisation’ of every possible aspect of social life, which have opened up a new dimension in geopolitics. This emergence of new forms of artificial intelligence only points to one thing: the ‘digital arms race’ among major world powers would only continue to
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Dataphyte, Nigeria’s foremost data access and insight organisation, has released its latest research titled “Illegal Chinese Mining in Nigeria and its Political Implications.” The work accentuates its ongoing monitoring of foreign authoritarian influence in Nigeria and Africa, examining Chinese illegal mining in Nigeria within the context of Sino-Nigerian relations. It emphasises the political implications, such
Dataphyte has just released a policy brief on the dynamics of foreign influence in West Africa’s security sector, focusing on the role of the West, Russia, and China. Titled “Foreign Influence in West Africa’s Security Sector: The West, Russia, and China”, the report examined the drivers of foreign influence in West Africa’s security sector and
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