Personal Data Protection Legislations Within Africa

        For the past twenty years, African countries have passed laws and regulations on the usage data protection. This involves the collection, treatment, transmission, storage, and use of personal data by persons, the government, local authorities, and legal persons, as well as automated processing and non-automated processing of personal data contained in…

National Air Carriers in Africa

    Africa’s Biggest National Carriers by Fleet Size   Ethiopian Airlines dominates the African airspace and is 100% owned by the government. With a fleet of 131 and 38 on order (as at the time of this publication), Ethiopian Airlines has the largest fleet in Africa (and partnership deals with other African countries). Other…

The Cost of Conducting Nigerian Elections

  Costs, Polling Units and Voters’ Register Over the years, Nigeria has faced issues relating to the voters register; the 2006 voters’ register for instance, had alien names like Hillary Clinton, Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan among others – this led to updates of the voters’ register (which cost money). Since 119,973 polling units were formed…

Academic Discipline of Nigerian University Students

Academic Discipline of Nigerian University Students This analysis displays the total number of students in different academic fields across Nigerian universities from 100 level to 600 level (depending on the duration of the course). Less than 5% of the total number of students are registered in Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacy, Medicine and Environmental Sciences – 0.2%,…

Public Holidays in Africa

Public Holidays in Africa Madagascar and Uganda have the highest number of days (19) spent observing public holidays yearly. Along with Madagascar and Uganda, Senegal, Tanzania and Morocco all spend 5% of the calendar year observing public holidays. Eritrea, Mauritania São Tomé & Príncipe and Sudan have the least number of days (8) observed as…

Telco Industry in Q1 – Drop in Subscribers

   On December 9, 2020, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) embarked on another audit of the Subscriber Registration Database. This announcement led to the suspension of registration and sale of SIM cards by operators which was later lifted on April 19, 2021 with some new guidelines. From December 2020 to March 2021, there was…

Internally Generated Revenue of Nigerian States

Internally Generated Revenue by Nigerian States from 2007 to 2020    From 2007 to 2020, Lagos’ IGR surpassed all other states even when there was a reduction in growth rate. In 2010 and 2015, the yoy (year-on-year) growth rate of Lagos’ IGR reduced. Most Nigerian States generate less than 50bn Naira revenue annually; only…