The Advocates for Positive Development (APD), has released its maiden 2024 edition of the Global Performance Index (GPI) Report on Nigeria.
It is the first of such a report to be published by the APD, a non-governmental organization, registered in Nigeria by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
Group Director of the NGO, Mr March Oyinki, said at the weekend that the report is the product of months of intense work by a team of researchers who x-rayed Nigeria’s global performance indicators in key sectors of the country using the World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI), which is the internationally recognized benchmark for rating the performance of countries all over the world.
He said, “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 efforts by the government to reform the already distressed economy.”
Oyinki said 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 poorly, such as life expectancy, birth and death rates, literacy rate, power supply, corruption, freedom of speech, just to mention but a few,” he said, adding that, “to keep the report balanced, we also highlighted in it, various efforts by the federal government in policy formulation and interventions, aimed at improving some of the developmental shortfalls.
Noting that 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, Oyinki further said that the report 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, and good governance, Oyinki concluded.
