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Meet Bimi

Meet Bimi, an AI chatbot for anyone with a question about public money

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Topics To Explore

National Budget

Government Revenue

Economic Growth

Fiscal Ranking

FAAC Allocation

Public Expenditure

And lots more…

What’s In The Database

Decades of Nigeria’s public data, in one place.

Every answer Bimi gives is grounded in a dataset with a known start date — not a black box.

Since 2010
Fiscal & budget data

Federal & sub-national, covering 2010 to present.

Since 1980
Macroeconomic data

Inflation, GDP, FDI, current account & more, covering 1980 to present

Since 2010
VAT Data

Value-added tax records, covering 2010 to present.

Since 2010
Demographic data

Population & census-linked records, covering 2010 to present.

How It Works

From a question to a sourced answer

No dashboards to learn, no spreadsheets to download. Just ask, the way you’d ask a well-informed friend.

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Ask in plain language

Type a question the way you’d actually say it — about a budget line, a state’s allocation, or how an economic indicator grows.

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Bimi searches verified records

It draws on BudgIT’s own archive of audited financial reports, budget documents and demographic data collected over years of tracking Nigeria’s public finances.

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Get a plain-language answer

Bimi explains and interprets the figures, rather than just listing them — and you can keep asking follow-up questions in the same thread.

Ask Bimi anything

MACROECONOMIC

How does Nigeria’s inflation rate compare with GDP growth in recent years?

BUDGET EXPENDITURE

How much has the Federal Government spent on education in the 2024 budget?

FAAC ALLOCATION

How much FAAC allocation did Lagos State receive in 2025, versus other states?

PUBLIC DEBT

Which state carried the highest external debt in 2024?

Try it yourself

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Bimi is more than a chatbot, it is a digital partner for accountability, built to hand citizens a plain-language way into government data that usually sits behind jargon and dense PDFs.

Oluseun Onigbinde, Global Director, BudgIT

WHO IT’S FOR

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Citizens

Understand where government money goes, without needing a finance background.

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Researchers

Pull specific figures and comparisons quickly instead of manually cross-referencing reports.

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Government officials

Check spending and allocation figures across ministries and states in one place.

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Journalists & CSOs

Get sourced, quotable figures fast when reporting on budgets and public spending.

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WHO IT’S FOR

Quick answers to typical questions about Bimi

Yes. There’s no paywall or account to create — open bimi.budgit.org and start typing.

From BudgIT’s own archive of audited and verified financial reports, budget documents, and demographic records, built up over years of tracking Nigeria’s public finances at the federal and state levels.

Both. Bimi is built to answer questions at national and subnational levels, across all 36 states and the FCT.

For anything you plan to publish, cite, or rely on for a decision, it’s good practice to verify against the original document Bimi points you to — as with any AI-assisted tool. To help with this, Bimi also provides its data source in its responses.

TELL US WHAT’S MISSING

Help make Bimi better.

Found a wrong figure, a missing dataset, or an idea for what Bimi should learn next? Tell us directly — a real person reads every note.

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