🌾🇳🇬 NIGERIA PRODUCED MORE RICE THAN ANY OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRY — 2024 (Country — Tonnes) 1 🇳🇬Nigeria — 9.13M 2 🇪🇬Egypt — 6.43M 3 🇲🇬Madagascar — 4.97M 4 🇹🇿Tanzania — 4.05M 5 🇬🇳Guinea — 3.68M 6 🇲🇱Mali — 2.76M 7 🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire — 2.38M 8 🇨🇩DR Congo — 1.94M 9 🇬🇭Ghana — 1.72M 10 🇸🇳Senegal — 1.58M 11 🇸🇱Sierra Leone — 1.39M 12 🇧🇫Burkina Faso — 513K 13 🇧🇯Benin — 501K 14 🇲🇷Mauritania — 432K 15 🇹🇩Chad — 347K 🇳🇬 Nigeria produced 9.13M tonnes of rice in 2024, about 42% more than 🇪🇬 Egypt. Nigeria also produced 4.7× as much as 🇨🇩 DR Congo and 5.3× as much as 🇬🇭 Ghana. #Statisense (FAOSTAT)

🌽🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA LED AFRICA IN MAIZE PRODUCTION — 2024 (Country — Tonnes) 1 🇿🇦South Africa — 12.85M 2 🇪🇹Ethiopia — 11.70M 3 🇳🇬Nigeria — 11.16M 4 🇹🇿Tanzania — 10.08M 5 🇪🇬Egypt — 7.21M 6 🇺🇬Uganda — 5.00M 7 🇰🇪Kenya — 4.02M 8 🇲🇱Mali — 3.95M 9 🇬🇭Ghana — 3.79M 10 🇦🇴Angola — 3.35M 11 🇲🇼Malawi — 3.00M 12 🇨🇩DR Congo — 2.39M 13 🇲🇿Mozambique — 2.32M 14 🇨🇲Cameroon — 2.20M 15 🇧🇯Benin — 2.09M 🇿🇦 South Africa produced 12.85M tonnes of maize in 2024, compared with 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s 11.16M tonnes, a difference of about 1.69M tonnes, meaning South Africa produced approximately 15.1% more than Nigeria. #Statisense (FAOSTAT)

AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY BEANS PRODUCTION — 2024 (Country — Tonnes) 1 🇹🇿Tanzania — 1.46M 2 🇰🇪Kenya — 903.85K 3 🇺🇬Uganda — 793.12K 4 🇲🇿Mozambique — 628.71K 5 🇪🇹Ethiopia — 604.79K 6 🇧🇮Burundi — 504.70K 7 🇷🇼Rwanda — 478.34K 8 🇨🇲Cameroon — 388.22K 9 🇦🇴Angola — 371.16K 10 🇨🇩DR Congo — 280.24K 11 🇲🇼Malawi — 239.77K 12 🇹🇬Togo — 238.14K 13 🇹🇩Chad — 183.02K 14 🇪🇬Egypt — 172.55K 15 🇬🇭Ghana — 166.12K 🇹🇿 Tanzania was Africa’s highest producer of dry beans in 2024, producing 1.46 million tonnes, about 19% of the continent’s total production. #Statisense (FAOSTAT)

🇳🇬 NIGERIA LED AFRICA IN YAM PRODUCTION — 2024 (Country — Tonnes) 1 🇳🇬Nigeria — 65.32M 2 🇬🇭Ghana — 10.11M 3 🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire — 7.66M 4 🇧🇯Benin — 3.35M 5 🇹🇬Togo — 982.38K 6 🇨🇲Cameroon — 541.65K 7 🇬🇳Guinea — 326.09K 8 🇬🇦Gabon — 229.93K 9 🇨🇫Cent Africa Rep — 227.41K 10 🇸🇩Sudan — 173.48K 11 🇸🇳Senegal — 146.54K 12 🇨🇩D R C— 127.84K 13 🇲🇱Mali — 116.16K 14 🇸🇱Sierra Leone — 87.62K 15 🇧🇫Burkina Faso — 64.05K 🇳🇬 Nigeria produced 65.32 million tonnes of yams, about 6.5× 🇬🇭 Ghana's 10.11 million tonnes, making Nigeria the dominant producer among the countries listed. #Statisense (FAOSTAT)

🇺🇸🌍 TOP 15 COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN FOR U.S. INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTIONS — FY2025 Country — number of adopted kids: 1 🇮🇳 India — 187 2 🇨🇴 Colombia — 141 3 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 64 4 🇵🇭 Philippines — 57 5 🇹🇼 Taiwan — 50 6 🇭🇹 Haiti — 40 7 🇰🇷 South Korea — 34 8 🇧🇮 Burundi — 30 9 🇹🇭 Thailand — 28 10 🇭🇺 Hungary — 23 11 🇱🇷 Liberia — 20 12 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone — 20 13 🇧🇩 Bangladesh — 19 14 🇲🇽 Mexico — 17 15 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 16 India recorded the highest number of incoming child adoptions into the US, with 187. Burundi was the highest African country at 30, followed by Liberia and Sierra Leone with 20 each and Nigeria at 16. #Statisense (U.S. Department of State)

📊NIGERIA IGR — 2024 VS 2025 2024: ₦3.65tn 2025: ₦5.15tn 📈 Increase: ₦1.50tn 📈 Growth: 40.93% Nigeria's state-level IGR increased by about ₦1.5tn year-on-year, pushing total IGR above ₦5tn. #StatiSense (NBS)

🦠 EBOLA OUTBREAK BY THE NUMBERS (7TH SEPT – 22ND SEPT) 🇨🇩 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 7 September Confirmed cases: 6,757 Confirmed deaths: 3,267 CFR (Case Fatality Rate): 48.3% Affected health zones: 61 22 September Confirmed cases: 7,820 Confirmed deaths: 3,779 CFR (Case Fatality Rate): 48.3% Confirmed across 7 provinces: Bas-Uélé, Haut-Uélé, Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, South Ubangi, Tshopo 🇺🇬 UGANDA Recorded 20 confirmed and 1 probable case (21 total), with 2 confirmed and 1 probable death (3 total). Outbreak declared over after completing the 42-day monitoring period; last case confirmed 21 June. 🇫🇷 FRANCE Recorded 1 imported confirmed case and 0 deaths, with no secondary transmission reported. Statisense (WHO/CDC)

🇳🇬💰TOP STATES BY TAX REVENUE— 2025 State— Tax revenue 1🟣 Lagos — ₦1.477tn 2🟤 Rivers — ₦414.38bn 3🟠 FCT — ₦356.34bn 4🟤 Delta — ₦172.39bn 5 🟣 Ogun — ₦111.29bn 6🟤 Edo — ₦84.55bn 7🟣 Oyo — ₦83.62bn 8 🔴 Kano — ₦75.18bn 9🟢 Abia — ₦70.41bn 10 🟤 Akwa Ibom — ₦63.07bn National total: ₦3.792tn 🟠NC🔴 NW⚫ NE🟤 SS🟢SE🟣 SW #StatiSense (NBS)

AFRICA PORTS WITH THE BIGGEST INVESTMENT OVER THE PAST DECADE, 2010-2022 1 🇳🇬Onne Port Expansion, Phase 4b — $2.9bn 2 🇬🇭Tema Port Expansion — $1.5bn 3 🇸🇳Port of Ndayane — $1.1bn 4 🇳🇬Lekki Deep Sea Port Phase 1 — $1.1bn 5 🇨🇩Port of Banana Concession — $1.0bn #Statisense (Africa Finance Corporation)

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🇳🇬 STATES WITH THE LOWEST ROAD TAX REVENUE — 2025 State — Road Taxes Generated: 1 🔴 Katsina — ₦47.78m 2 🔴 Kebbi — ₦65.49m 3 🟤 Bayelsa — ₦70.92m 4 🔴 Sokoto — ₦84.09m 5 🔴 Jigawa — ₦96.84m 6 ⚫ Adamawa — ₦116.07m 7 ⚫ Yobe — ₦136.55m 8 ⚫ Taraba — ₦204.12m 9 ⚫ Borno — ₦344.26m 10 🟠 Benue — ₦381.03m 11 ⚫ Gombe — ₦411.33m 12 🟣 Ekiti — ₦424.85m Katsina recorded the lowest road tax revenue among the 12 states, at ₦47.78m in 2025. 🟠NC ⚫NE 🔴NW 🟤SS 🟣SW #Statisense (NBS)

📊 GROSS FAAC ALLOCATION TO LGAs BY REGION — AUGUST 2026 (Gross FAAC to 774 LGAs = ₦555.14bn) Zone — LGA Allocation 1 South West — ₦129.15bn 2 North West — ₦122.26bn 3 South South — ₦86.75bn 4 North Central — ₦85.17bn 5 North East — ₦74.18bn 6 South East — ₦57.64bn South West leads LGA allocation nationally at ₦129.15bn, driven largely by Lagos and Oyo, while South East trails at ₦57.64bn. #Statisense (FAAC ;Agora Policy)

🇳🇬 STATES WITH THE HIGHEST ROAD TAX REVENUE — 2025 Top 12 State — Road Taxes Generated: 1 🟣 Lagos — ₦16.87bn 2 🟤 Delta — ₦3.33bn 3 🟣 Ondo — ₦2.67bn 4 🟤 Cross River — ₦2.29bn 5 🟤 Edo — ₦2.14bn 6 🟣 Ogun — ₦2.12bn 7 ⚫ Bauchi — ₦1.89bn 8 🟠 Kogi — ₦1.64bn 9 🟣 Oyo — ₦1.34bn 10 🟢 Anambra — ₦1.21bn 11 🟤 Akwa Ibom — ₦1.21bn 12 🟢 Enugu — ₦1.13bn 🟠NC ⚫NE 🟢SE 🟤SS 🟣SW Lagos generated ₦16.87bn in road taxes in 2025, more than the combined ₦15.12bn recorded by the other 11 states in the top 12. #Statisense (NBS)

📊 BOTTOM 12 STATES BY GROSS FAAC ALLOCATION TO LGAs — AUGUST 2026 State — LGA Allocation 1 🟤 Bayelsa — ₦6.74bn 2 🟠 FCT — ₦7.66bn 3 ⚫ Gombe — ₦7.77bn 4 🟢 Ebonyi — ₦8.18bn 5 🟠 Nasarawa — ₦8.52bn 6 🟣 Ekiti — ₦9.70bn 7 🟠 Kwara — ₦10.01bn 8 🟢 Abia — ₦10.19bn 9 ⚫ Taraba — ₦10.29bn 10 🔴 Zamfara — ₦10.56bn 11 🟤 Cross River — ₦10.91bn 12 🟢 Enugu — ₦11.15bn ⚫NE 🔴NW 🟠NC 🟣SW 🟢SE 🟤SS #Statisense (FAAC ;Agora Policy)

📊 TOP 12 STATES BY GROSS FAAC ALLOCATION TO LGAs — AUGUST 2026 State — LGA Allocation 1 🟣 Lagos — ₦55.52bn 2 🔴 Kano — ₦29.13bn 3 🟣 Oyo — ₦24.75bn 4 🟤 Rivers — ₦23.25bn 5 🔴 Katsina — ₦21.22bn 6 🟤 Akwa Ibom — ₦18.31bn 7 🔴 Kaduna — ₦17.01bn 8 🟠 Niger — ₦16.90bn 9 🟠 Benue — ₦16.84bn 10 🔴 Jigawa — ₦16.80bn 11 ⚫ Borno — ₦16.65bn 12 🟤 Delta — ₦16.03bn ⚫NE 🔴NW 🟠NC 🟣SW 🟢SE 🟤SS Lagos LGAs received the highest gross FAAC allocation nationwide at ₦55.52bn, followed by Kano at ₦29.13bn and Oyo at ₦24.75bn. #Statisense (FAAC ;Agora Policy)

🇳🇬 PEOPLE MOST AFFECTED BY FLOODING — 2025 1 Children — 97,244 2 Women — 64,327 3 Men — 40,030 4 Elderly persons — 8,065 5 Persons with disabilities — 2,069 6 Missing persons — 114 Children accounted for 46% of the identified affected people in 2025. #Statisense (NEMA)

📊 AFRICA’S HIGHEST DISPLACEMENT RATES AS A SHARE OF POPULATION — 2026 Country — % Of Population Displaced 1 🇸🇸 South Sudan — 28% 2 🇸🇩 Sudan — 25% 3 🇸🇴 Somalia — 23% 4 🇨🇲 Cameroon — 21% 5 🇪🇷 Eritrea — 19% 6 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso — 17% 7 🇨🇩 DR Congo — 6% 8 🇨🇫 Central African Republic — 4% 9 🇲🇱 Mali — 4% 10 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 2% 11 🇪🇹 Ethiopia — 2% 12 🇳🇪 Niger — 2% Displacement affects a much larger share of the population in South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia, where at least 23% of the population is displaced. Nigeria ranks much higher in total displaced people, but its displaced population represents about 2% of the country’s total population. #Statisense (ACSS; IDMC; World Bank; IOM; UNHCR)

📊 TOP 12 AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY FORCED DISPLACEMENT — 2026 Country — Total Forcibly Displaced 1 🇸🇩 Sudan — 12.88M 2 🇨🇩 DR Congo — 6.48M 3 🇸🇴 Somalia — 4.44M 4 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 4.14M 5 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso — 4.00M 6 🇸🇸 South Sudan — 3.45M 7 🇪🇹 Ethiopia — 2.56M 8 🇨🇫 Central African Republic — 1.18M 9 🇨🇲 Cameroon — 1.13M 10 🇲🇱 Mali — 873.19k 11 🇪🇷 Eritrea — 673.34k 12 🇳🇪 Niger — 645.49k The top 7 countries account for about 85% of Africa’s 44.80M forcibly displaced people, with Sudan alone accounting for 12.88M. NB: “Forcibly displaced” means people forced to leave their homes because of conflict, violence or persecution. It includes IDPs, refugees and asylum seekers. #Statisense (ACSS; IDMC; World Bank; IOM; UNHCR)

📊AFRICAN COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST DISPLACEMENT AND REFUGEE-HOSTING PRESSURE — 2026 Country — Own People Displaced | Refugees Hosted 1 🇸🇩 Sudan — 12.88M | 886.70k 2 🇪🇹 Ethiopia — 2.56M | 1.13M 3 🇸🇸 South Sudan — 3.45M | 653.93k 4 🇳🇪 Niger — 645.49k | 455.74k 5 🇨🇲 Cameroon — 1.13m | 504.85k 6 🇲🇱 Mali — 873.19k | 316.34k Ethiopia hosts 1.13M refugees while also having 2.56M of its own people forcibly displaced. NB: “Own people displaced” means people from the country who have been forced from their homes. “Refugees hosted” means people from other countries who crossed the border into that country for safety. #Statisense (ACSS; UNHCR)

📊 TOP 12 AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS — 2026 Country — Refugees & Asylum Seekers 1 🇸🇩 Sudan — 3.72M 2 🇸🇸 South Sudan — 2.50M 3 🇨🇩 DR Congo — 1.37M 4 🇸🇴 Somalia — 940.43k 5 🇨🇫 Central African Republic — 749.04k 6 🇪🇷 Eritrea — 673.34k 7 🇲🇱 Mali — 464.55k 8 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso — 451.22k 9 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 427.15k 10 🇧🇮 Burundi — 276.50k 11 🇷🇼 Rwanda — 264.62k 12 🇪🇹 Ethiopia — 186.15k Sudan and South Sudan account for 6.22M refugees and asylum seekers — more than the other 10 countries combined. NB: A refugee has crossed an international border to seek safety. An asylum seeker has also crossed a border to seek protection but is still waiting for a decision on their claim. #Statisense (ACSS; UNHCR; IDMC; World Bank; IOM)