  The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that is ravaging
Nigeria and the world at large. This data article provides a dataset of daily
updates of COVID-19 as reported online by the Nigeria Centre for Disease
Control (NCDC) from February 27, 2020 to September 29, 2020. The data were
obtained through web scraping from different sources and it includes some
economic variables such as the Nigeria budget for each state in 2020,
population estimate, healthcare facilities, and the COVID-19 laboratories in
Nigeria. The dataset has been processed using the standard of the FAIR data
principle which encourages its findability, accessibility, interoperability,
and reusability and will be relevant to researchers in different fields such as
Data Science, Epidemiology, Earth Modelling, and Health Informatics.
