Datasets

Rich Nigerian telecom industry stats (188M+ subscriptions, ~87% teledensity) published only as HTML web tables and annual PDF reports.

No CSV/API export, scraping is the only bulk-access path.

Rich quarterly regulatory data on DisCo performance, ATC&C losses, GenCo invoices and consumer connections.

Published only as PDFs, requires Camelot or Tabula to extract structured data.

Largest Nigerian sentiment corpus (~30k tweets per language) covering Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin.

Largest African multilingual speech dataset (1,867 hours, May 2025) covering Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. Non-commercial license.

Nationally representative ~5,000-household panel survey (511 enumeration areas) by Nigeria's NBS under the World Bank LSMS-ISA program, covering household economic activity, consumption and agriculture for 2023-2024, with full questionnaires and DDI/JSON metadata.

Monthly food price estimates for ~13 commodities (rice, maize, beans, millet, sorghum, yam, gari, fish, meat) across 73 Nigerian markets, compiled by the World Bank from WFP/FAO and national sources, covering Jan 2007 through 2026 with downloadable files and a Data API.

Speech-to-text corpus for Nigerian Pidgin English: 4,277 quality-filtered 16kHz WAV recordings with sentence-level transcriptions from 10 native speakers, split train 2,710 / val 677 / test 892, ~956 MB.

Open legal-text dataset of 5,585 Nigerian Supreme Court cases (1962–2022) in English. The only known open Nigerian legal ML dataset.

OpenStreetMap school location data on HDX (GeoJSON/CSV, monthly updates). Good urban coverage with significant rural gaps; no enrollment or quality data.

Free cell-tower location dataset (CSV) covering all four Nigerian operators (MCC 621) with tower lat/lng, operator, RAT and signal strength on a rolling 18-month window. Rural coverage is sparse.

Daily-updated OpenStreetMap data extract for Nigeria in .osm.pbf (~677 MB), ESRI shapefile .shp.zip (~2.0 GB) and .gpkg.zip (~2.0 GB), plus dated historical snapshots. Distributed by Geofabrik under ODbL.

Modelled gridded population raster (100m, GeoTIFF, Aug 2025) covering all of Nigeria, aggregatable to LGA/ward level.

An estimate, not a census, the last census was 2006 and the 2023 census did not happen.

Zero-dependency JavaScript package (naija-state-local-government) providing Nigerian states, LGAs and senatorial districts; some versions add wards and polling units.

Ward boundary polygons in GeoJSON/SHP, no auth.

v1.0 covers all states (approximate); high-accuracy v2.0 covers only 15 of 36 states.

Gridded population count raster for Nigeria at ~100m (3 arc-second) resolution, 2020, in GeoTIFF, UN-adjusted and constrained to building footprints. Single-file download ~58.67 MB from WorldPop (University of Southampton), CC BY 4.0.

Large Yoruba parallel speech-text corpus of 1,647,022 audio-text pairs (~21.5 GB, WAV) aligned with the MMS-300M Forced Aligner for ASR and TTS, with clips of 0.04-12 seconds.

Open geodata mapping terrestrial and undersea fibre optic cable routes across Africa, digitised from operator maps into GIS format. The dataset is downloadable as CSV, SHP, KML, GeoJSON and SVG via the map portal and GitHub, and is also mirrored in the FAO data catalog. It is community-maintained by Steve Song under an open-data model.

Multilingual collection of hate speech and abusive language datasets covering 15 African languages, built from tweets annotated by native speakers. Each instance carries labels from 3 to 4 annotators with anonymous annotator IDs, downloadable on HuggingFace. Published at NAACL 2025.

Human-translated multiple-choice question-answering evaluation benchmark covering 16 to 17 African languages plus English and French, derived from a subset of MMLU across subjects like maths, geography and law. Distributed as CSV and parquet on HuggingFace and forms part of the IrokoBench suite (MMLU, MGSM, XNLI). Licensed Apache 2.0.

Open GIS map of existing and planned electricity transmission and distribution lines for all continental African countries and Madagascar, tagged by voltage (sub-kV to 700kV) and status. Four downloadable resources cover combined, existing-only and planned-only lines as GeoJSON plus a Shapefile package. Published by the World Bank on ENERGYDATA.INFO under CC BY 4.0 and last updated September 2024.

Standardised geospatial database of urban agglomerations across all 54 African countries, built from censuses, electoral registers and satellite imagery. Each urban area is a polygon with population and built-up-area attributes, available in 2015 and 2020 versions. Data is downloadable as geospatial vector files from africapolis.org under CC BY 4.0.

[ingest-scout] Large-scale benchmark from McGill-NLP for evaluating large language models across African languages; covers diverse NLP tasks and language families. Active GitHub repository under the same McGill-NLP lab that produced AfriqueLLM. Complements IrokoBench (already in registry) but targets broader language coverage and LLM evaluation. Confirmed live on GitHub under McGill-NLP organisation.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Nationally representative public-attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society across roughly 39 African countries and nine survey rounds. Country-level and merged multi-country datasets are provided with codebooks in SPSS, Stata and CSV. Data is free to use; the most recent Round 9 covers 2021 to 2023.

Research data service cataloguing African household, labour and census microdata, centred on South Africa but including other African countries, with full survey documentation and questionnaires. Microdata downloads (Stata, SPSS, CSV) require a free account and agreement to terms, while the catalog itself is openly browsable. Maintained by the University of Cape Town.