m1detheanalyst/the-nigerian-budget-analytics

The Nigerian Budget Analytics Dashboard is a three page Power BI report that turns Nigeria's federal budget data into something easier to explore and understand. Power BI is a Microsoft tool for building interactive charts and dashboards from spreadsheet style data. The dataset behind this project is modeled and simulated for educational purposes, so it does not represent the official approved Nigerian federal budget figures. The first page covers overall budget performance: total expenditure, how spending splits between recurrent costs such as salaries and overheads versus capital investment, debt service obligations, and how total government revenue compares against total spending. The second page looks at sector and MDA allocation, meaning which sectors and which individual ministries, departments, and agencies are spending the most, with the ability to drill down from a sector into the specific bodies within it, plus a table for comparing each MDA's recurrent and capital spending side by side. The third page focuses on revenue, showing where government income comes from, including statutory allocations, internally generated revenue, grants, and other sources, alongside a fiscal adequacy comparison that shows whether revenue is enough to cover expenditure. Every page includes filter controls, called slicers in Power BI, so a viewer can narrow the view by expenditure type, budget classification, specific budget line items, individual MDAs, sectors, or revenue sources. The visuals are built with clustered column charts, bar charts, donut charts, and a pivot table. This project would suit analysts, journalists, researchers, or students who want to practice reading and presenting public finance data in Power BI, or anyone curious about how a government budget can be broken down and visualized. Because it is a Power BI file rather than application code, using it requires Power BI Desktop rather than a typical install process. The full README is longer than what was shown here.