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🇳🇬32 AMBASSADORIAL NOMINEES [15 nominees as career ambassadors and 17 nominees as non-career ambassadors] NON-CAREER AMBASSADORS: 1 🟢Bar Ogbonnaya Kalu 2 🟤Reno Omokri 3 ⚫️Mahmud Yakubu 4 🟣Erelu Angela Adebayo 5 🟢Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi 6 🔴Tasiu Musa Maigari 7 🟠Yakubu N. Gambo 8

BIGGEST SPENDERS ON MILITARY IN THE WORLD — 2024 Top 12 — Military Expenditure: 1 🇺🇸United States — $968.38 billion 2 🇨🇳China — $317.56 billion 3 🇷🇺Russia — $150.53 billion 4 🇩🇪Germany — $86.30 billion 5 🇮🇳India — $83.62 billion 6 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia — $78.95 billion 7 🇬🇧United

SECURITY INCIDENTS IN OCTOBER 2025 Killings — 290 Kidnappings — 145 NB: Killings reduced by 15% and kidnappings by 50%, respectively from September 2025 #Statisense (NHRC Oct 2025)

TOP 10 STATES IN VIOLATION OF CHILD RIGHTS (OCTOBER 2025) 1 🟠Abuja (FCT) — 983 2 🟠Benue — 860 3 ⚫Borno — 695 4 🔴Kaduna — 579 5 🟠Niger — 466 6 🟠Plateau — 427 7 🟢Imo — 378 8 🔴Sokoto — 329 9 ⚫Bauchi — 296 10🟠Kogi — 224 ⚫NE 🔴NW 🟠NC 🟢SE #Statisense (NHRC Oct 2025)

THE MOST REPORTED CHILD RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN NIGERIA (OCT 2025) 1 Child Abandonment — 1,086 2 Child Custody — 992 3 Access to Children — 798 4 Child Labour — 789 5 Other Child Abuses — 762 6 Right to Survival & Development — 720 7 Child Marriage — 696 8 Sexual Abuse — 622 9

🇳🇬TOP WOMEN'S RIGHTS VIOLATIONS REPORTED (OCT 2025) 1 Gender Based Discrimination — 2,509 2 Sexual and Reproductive Rights — 2,261 3 Denial of Access to Children — 2,085 4 Abandonment (Women) — 1,274 5 Forceful Marriage — 548 6 Harmful Cultural Practices — 514 7 Women

🇳🇬CORPORATE INCOME TAX BY SECTOR — Q2 2025 Top 12 Contributors: 1 Financial & insurance — ₦1.02 trillion 2 Manufacturing — ₦360.20 billion 3 Mining & quarrying — ₦212.27 billion 4 Wholesale & retail trade — ₦139.87 billion 5 Construction — ₦105.11 billion 6 Information &

🇳🇬NUMBER OF ACTIVE VOICE SUBSCRIBER (USER OF SIM CARD) BY REGION South West — 45.27 million North West — 32.00 million North Central — 29.45 million South South — 23.18 million North East — 18.29 million South East — 16.74 million #Statisense (NCC, 2024)

THE COST OF SECURITY — Military Budget as a Percentage of Total Government Spending [2024] Top 12 in Africa: 1 🇸🇴Somalia — 21.57%, for every $100 spent, at least $22 is for security 2 🇩🇿Algeria — 21.38% 3 🇹🇩Chad — 17.22% 4 🇧🇫Burkina Faso — 17.00% 5 🇲🇱Mali — 16.65% 6 🇨🇫Central

THE COST OF SECURITY — Military Budget as a Percentage of Total Government Spending [2024] Top 12 1 🇺🇦Ukraine — 54.01%, for every $100 spent, at least $54 is for security 2 🇧🇾Belarus — 50.66% 3 🇲🇲Myanmar — 29.10% 4 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia — 22.31% 5 🇸🇴Somalia — 21.57% 6 🇩🇿Algeria —

BIGGEST SPENDERS ON MILITARY IN THE WORLD — 2024 Top 12 — Military Expenditure: 1 🇺🇸United States — $968.38 billion 2 🇨🇳China — $317.56 billion 3 🇷🇺Russia — $150.53 billion 4 🇩🇪Germany — $86.30 billion 5 🇮🇳India — $83.62 billion 6 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia — $78.95 billion 7 🇬🇧United

🇳🇬LIVING FORMER PRESIDENTS/HOS SINCE 1960 89yrs — ⚫Gen. Yakubu Gowon 87yrs — ⚫🟢Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo 81yrs — ⚫🟢Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari 82yrs — ⚫Gen. Ibrahim Babangida 81yrs — ⚫Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar 66yrs — 🟢Dr. Goodluck Jonathan ⚫Military 🟢Civilian

🇺🇸GUN VIOLENCE DEATHS IN UNITED STATES 2023: 42,865, approximately 117 daily. 2022: 44,181, approximately 121 deaths daily. 2021: 44,692, approximately 122 deaths daily. 2020: 43,322, approximately 118 deaths daily. 2019: 39,297, approximately 108 deaths daily. Total of

COUP D'ÉTAT IN AFRICA — LAST 5YRS 1 🇲🇱Mali — 2020 2 🇬🇳Guinea — 2021 3 🇧🇫Burkina Faso — 2022 4 🇳🇪Niger — 2023 5 🇬🇦Gabon — 2023 6 🇸🇩Sudan — 2023 7 🇲🇬Madagascar — 2025 8 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau — 2025 #Statisense

COUP ATTEMPTS IN ECOWAS STATES 10 — 🇧🇫Burkina Faso 10 — 🇸🇱Sierra Leone 10 — 🇬🇭Ghana 9 — 🇬🇼Guinea Bissau 8 — 🇳🇪Niger 8 — 🇳🇬Nigeria 8 — 🇧🇯Benin 8 — 🇲🇱Mali 7 — 🇹🇬Togo 6 — 🇬🇳Guinea 4 — 🇱🇷Liberia 4 — 🇨🇮Cote D'Ivoire 3 — 🇬🇲Gambia 1 — 🇸🇳Senegal #StatiSense (VoA)

THE MOST COUP ATTEMPTS IN AFRICA 17 — 🇸🇩Sudan 11 — 🇧🇮Burundi 10 — 🇧🇫Burkina Faso 10 — 🇸🇱Sierra Leone 10 — 🇬🇭Ghana 9 — 🇬🇼Guinea Bissau 9 — 🇰🇲Comoros 8 — 🇳🇪Niger 8 — 🇳🇬Nigeria 8 — 🇧🇯Benin 8 — 🇲🇱Mali 7 — 🇹🇩Chad 7 — 🇨🇬Congo Republic 7 — 🇹🇬Togo 7 — 🇲🇷Mauritania #StatiSense (VoA)

🇳🇬OIL PRODUCING STATES 1 🟢Abia 2 🟤Akwa Ibom 3 🟢Anambra 4 🟤Bayelsa 5 🟤Delta 6 🟤Edo 7 🟢Imo 8 🟣Ondo 9 🟤Rivers USED TO BE... 🟤Cross river: 1999-2012 🟣Lagos: 2017-2019 🟢SE 🟤SS 🟣SW #Statisense

🇳🇬OIL PRODUCING STATES 1 🟢Abia 2 🟤Akwa Ibom 3 🟢Anambra 4 🟤Bayelsa 5 🟤Delta 6 🟤Edo 7 🟢Imo 8 🟣Ondo 9 🟤Rivers 🟢SE 🟤SS 🟣SW #Statisense

🇺🇸COUNTRIES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN — OCT 2025 1 🇲🇲Burma 2 🇨🇳China 3 🇨🇺Cuba 4 🇪🇷Eritrea 5 🇮🇷Iran 6 🇰🇵North Korea 7 🇳🇮Nicaragua 8 🇳🇬Nigeria 9 🇵🇰Pakistan 10 🇷🇺Russia 11 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia 12 🇹🇯Tajikistan 13 🇹🇲Turkmenistan Special Watch List Countries 1 🇩🇿Algeria 2 🇦🇿Azerbaijan 3

🇳🇬OIL PRODUCING STATES 1 🟢Abia 2 🟤Akwa Ibom 3 🟢Anambra 4 🟤Bayelsa 5 🟤Delta 6 🟤Edo 7 🟢Imo 8 🟣Ondo 9 🟤Rivers 🟢SE 🟤SS 🟣SW #Statisense