On Monday, December 30, 2024, the Advocates for Positive Development (APD), a Nigerian NGO registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, unveiled its maiden Global Performance Index (GPI) Report.
This landmark report evaluates Nigeria’s performance across key sectors using the World Bank’s World Development Indicators as benchmarks.
According to APD’s Group Director, March Oyinki, the report arrives at a critical time as Nigeria grapples with economic instability, inflation, and security challenges.
The findings highlight systemic issues undermining development efforts despite government attempts to stabilize the economy. Researchers spent months analyzing data to provide actionable insights for policymakers.
Oyinki in a press release, added that 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 to action, spotlighting the urgent need for government intervention in some of the key sectors where Nigeria performed extremely poor, such as life expectancy, birth and death rates, literacy rate, power supply, corruption, freedom of speech,” among others.
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.
Oyinki said further: “As part of its public education and enlightenment programmes, the Advocates for Positive Development has ensured the 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, he explained, 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, and good governance.
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