This report is coming quite timely, especially at a time when the federal government is grappling with multifarious security and economic challenges amidst soaring inflation that have push the prices of commodities and services over the roof, thereby making it extremely expensive and unaffordable to the generality of the citizens, despite frantic effort by the government to realign the already distressed economy.

The GPI report focuses primarily on the country’s development in comparison with countries in the West African sub-region and other global economies. Essentially, the GPI report is a call action, spotlighting the urgent need for government intervention in some of the key sectors where Nigeria performed extremely poorly, such as life expectancy, birth and death rates, literacy rate, power supply, corruption, freedom of speech, just to mention but a few. To keep the report balanced, it also highlights various efforts by the federal government in policy formulation and interventions aimed at improving some of the developmental shortfalls.  

As part of its public education and enlightenment programmes, the Advocates for Positive Development has ensures widespread distribution of the GPI report, not just to the press, but also to the general public through various social media platforms. It has also been distributed to the top echelon of society, targeting policy and decision makers in government institutions. 

The GPI Report will be released annually by the APD as part of its strategic engagement mechanism to encourage members of the public and civil society groups to hold the government accountable and engender positive development, good governance.

March Oyinki

Group Director