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Trust in an election is built long before results are announced.For Cynthia Mbamalu, one of the major tests ahead of Nig...
07/10/2026

Trust in an election is built long before results are announced.

For Cynthia Mbamalu, one of the major tests ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections will be how INEC demonstrates its independence through its decisions, responses and conduct throughout the electoral process.

In Episode 3 of Dataphyte’s Election Dialogue Series, she speaks about the relationship between institutional independence, public confidence and the credibility of elections and what Nigerians should be paying attention to before 2027.

Episode 3, 2027 General Elections: Is Nigeria Ready?, is available now.
Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/qtI0Uaj4yQc
Listen on Spotify: bit.ly/4rEwhxY

Nigeria’s primary healthcare challenge is not only that many facilities are underperforming. It is also that the system ...
07/10/2026

Nigeria’s primary healthcare challenge is not only that many facilities are underperforming. It is also that the system makes it difficult to connect public money to actual results.

More than half of the country’s roughly 30,000 Primary Health Centres are either non-functional or operating below minimum standards. At the same time, there is limited public visibility into how BHCPF funds are used and whether that spending is translating into better services.

This creates an accountability gap. When funding is difficult to track and PHC performance cannot be easily compared across states, persistent poor outcomes can continue without a clear line of responsibility or meaningful consequences for underperformance.

Our latest Policy Point makes the case for greater transparency around both health financing and performance, so Nigerians can better assess a fundamental question: Is public spending actually improving primary healthcare?

Read the full brief: www.dataphyte.org/policy-point

A breast cancer diagnosis should not come with such different chances of survival simply because of where a woman lives....
06/10/2026

A breast cancer diagnosis should not come with such different chances of survival simply because of where a woman lives.

For women diagnosed between 2017 and 2021, Nigeria's estimated five-year breast cancer survival rate was 27.7%, which is below the 39.1% median for the WHO African Region and far below the 77.8% global median.

Behind that gap are weaknesses in the health system. Breast cancer is harder to survive when women are diagnosed late, and when timely, quality treatment is hard to access. Awareness can help women recognise the signs, but awareness alone cannot close the survival gap.

Women also need a health system that can detect cancer early, confirm a diagnosis quickly and provide timely, quality treatment.

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the numbers point to something bigger than awareness: where a woman lives should not determine her chance of survival.

Source: WHO Global Breast Cancer Survival Estimates, 2017-2021 (WHO Global Health Observatory, 2026)

01/10/2026

As Nigeria marks 66 years of independence, the question is not only how far the country has come but how confidently Nigerians can choose who leads them next.

In this highlight from Episode 3 of Dataphyte’s Election Dialogue Series, Cynthia Mbamalu says what Nigerians want from elections is simple: a transparent process.

Episode 3, 2027 General Elections: Is Nigeria Ready?, is out now.
Watch now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qtI0Uaj4yQc
Listen on Spotify: http://bit.ly/4rEwhxY

66 years after independence, Nigeria is already looking ahead to another defining national moment: the 2027 General Elec...
01/10/2026

66 years after independence, Nigeria is already looking ahead to another defining national moment: the 2027 General Elections. Is the country ready?

Episode 3 of Dataphyte’s Election Dialogue Series is out today.
In this episode, Cynthia Mbamalu, Director of Programs at Yiaga Africa, discusses what readiness for 2027 should actually involve; from INEC’s technical and institutional preparedness to security, election logistics, public trust and the role of citizens themselves.

As Nigeria marks another year of independence, this is also a moment to look ahead at the systems and preparations that will shape the country’s next General Elections.

2027 General Elections: Is Nigeria Ready?
Watch now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qtI0Uaj4yQc
Listen on Spotify: bit.ly/4rEwhxY

Nigeria at 66 is more than a milestone. It is the story of one country, its people, its diversity and the numbers that h...
01/10/2026

Nigeria at 66 is more than a milestone. It is the story of one country, its people, its diversity and the numbers that help us understand it.

At Dataphyte Foundation, we believe data helps make that story clearer.

Happy 66th Independence Day, Nigeria.

In the Osun Governorship election in August, Dataphyte Foundation used three systems to monitor and report the election:...
30/09/2026

In the Osun Governorship election in August, Dataphyte Foundation used three systems to monitor and report the election: a network of election observers, an optical character recognition (OCR) tool, and the Nigeria Election Data Observatory (NEDO) platform, powered by Dataphyte Foundation. These systems, altogether, enable us to provide verified information to citizens and an evidence base that can help reduce the tendency for electoral manipulation.

In the 2027 election cycle, Dataphyte Foundation and its partners (BudgIT Foundation, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), DEAN Initiative and Yiaga Africa, under the NEDO consortium, plan to replicate the same, albeit in large scale. Among other things, the consortium will deploy human observers to more than half of the first-level election collation centres across Nigeria to document the electoral process and provide citizens with verified and independent election updates that can inform electoral conversations and safeguard against misinformation during the election.

Our founder, Joshua Olufemi, explained this in detail in a recent interview with Premium Times.

He explained that the NEDO consortium will combine the field networks, monitoring experience and verification capacity of its member organisations to observe the election across Nigeria’s 774 local government areas and more than 10,000 ward-level collation centres.

“For 2027, we are combining field agents’ resources, monitoring experiences and information verification, and civic messaging of at least five organisations with coverage across the 774 local government areas and over 10 thousands ward level collation centres under the NEDO consortium to block any gaps while galvanising the unique capacity of each organisation,” he said.

Read the full article here:

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/913030-ai-civic-tech-are-changing-nigerias-election-result-tracking-landscape.htmlhttps://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/913030-ai-civic-tech-are-changing-nigerias-election-result-tracking-landscape.html

Can INEC avoid a repeat of the technical problems seen in 2023? How will insecurity and displaced communities affect ele...
30/09/2026

Can INEC avoid a repeat of the technical problems seen in 2023? How will insecurity and displaced communities affect election logistics? And are citizens themselves paying enough attention to the process?

In Episode 3 of Dataphyte’s Election Dialogue Series, Cynthia Mbamalu brings these questions into focus as we ask:

2027 General Elections: Is Nigeria Ready?

Episode 3 drops tomorrow, Thursday, October 1, 2026.

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