Chikezie OMEJE 234 posts

Chinese company finally shut down illegal charcoal production in Enugu after ICIR’s…

Chikezie OMEJE May 27, 2019

A CHINESE company, Kwo Chief Investment Limited, has finally shut down its illegal charcoal production at Obimo in…

For years, Dana Air received donations from Nigerians for illegal charity

Chikezie OMEJE May 20, 2019

For many years, Dana Air, a domestic airline operator in Nigeria, raised millions of naira through inflight donations to…

SPECIAL REPORT: Benue, Plateau villagers yearn to return home amidst fear of unending…

Chikezie OMEJE May 16, 2019

One year after the federal government pledged to rebuild communities and resettle locals displaced by herdsmen, a single…

Chinese company continues illegal charcoal production after NESREA purportedly sealed…

Chikezie OMEJE May 14, 2019

AN illegal charcoal factory by a Chinese company in Enugu State has continued operation after more than two weeks that…

INEC declares Ganduje winner of controversial Kano gubernatorial poll

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 25, 2019

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano State, winner of…

INEC suspends election in Rivers over widespread violence

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 10, 2019

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended all electoral processes in Rivers State over…

‘Our votes don’t count’: Abuja residents shun election

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 9, 2019

ACROSS the Abuja City Centre, polling units are deserted by voters as eligible voters complained that they have realised…

‘We’re behind’: Nigerians lament after Senegal’s successful elections

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 25, 2019

NIGERIANS have begun to lament how their country is backward by drawing comparison with Senegal after the two members of…

‘2015 elections better organised’: Nigerians express disappointment over violence at…

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 23, 2019

AS COLLATION of results for the presidential and National Assembly elections is on-going across the country, Nigerians…

INEC applauds effectiveness of smart card readers despite hitches across the country

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 23, 2019

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has praised the functionality of smart card readers for the…

INVESTIGATION: Unlicensed Chinese company overruns forests for wood charcoal in Enugu…

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 19, 2019

Investigation by The ICIR shows that regulatory and law enforcement agencies are aware of an unauthorised Chinese…

NAN boss Bayo Onanuga accuses journalist of treason over reporting on Boko Haram

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 18, 2019

BAYO Onanuga, managing director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has accused  freelance journalist Ahmad Salkida of…

INEC reschedules Saturday’s general elections for February 23

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 16, 2019

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed  presidential and National Assembly elections…

INEC moves to regain lost time in deploying voting materials to Imo State

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 15, 2019

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Imo State is running behind schedule in the distribution of…

‘Ethiopia has set an example for what all African nations should to do curb tobacco…

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 6, 2019

BINTOU Camara, Director of Africa Programs, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, has praised Ethiopia for passing a new…

DAMAGED: Boko Haram’s violence inflicts emotional injury on children, and it is…

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 25, 2019

Children caught up in the Boko Haram's 10-year-old insurgency suffer damage not so easily repaired. They are now…

2019 election will be rigged by Buhari, Osinbajo is a conspirator… key messages in…

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 21, 2019

THE central message in the open letter by Olusegun Obasanjo, former president, is that the 2019 general elections, more…

How not to ask blundering Buhari questions on live TV

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 17, 2019

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari was unsystematic and passive in answering questions that Kadaria Ahmed asked him on live…

INVESTIGATION: How customs, police caught and released truckload of codeine after…

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 17, 2019

LAST week, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) released a statement that it…

New Year’s babies: Nigeria trails behind India, China

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 1, 2019

AN estimated 25,685 babies will be born in Nigeria on New Year’s Day, according to Unicef, the UN children’s agency.…

INVESTIGATION: Millions meant for combating HIV/AIDS in Nigeria end up in private…

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 28, 2018

The ICIR investigations show that hundreds of millions of naira released for HIV campaigns, counselling and testing…

Activists ask FG to cancel controversial oil deal with Shell and Eni over corruption

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 27, 2018

INTERNATIONAL and local activists are asking the Federal Government to cancel the 2011 resolution agreement that yielded…

Leaked emails, new analysis – How Shell, Eni deprived Nigeria of $6 billion in oil…

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 26, 2018

NEW findings suggest that Nigeria will lose $6 billion in revenue to international oil companies, Shell and Eni, over…

Ezekwesili faults ICIR’s fact check on her out-of-school children’s claim

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 16, 2018

OBY Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has faulted The ICIR’s fact…

FACT CHECK: Oby Ezekwesili’s claim on out-of-school children is inaccurate

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 14, 2018

OBY Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) says that from the year 2000…

With increasing number of infants living with HIV, Nigeria is failing to meet global…

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 12, 2018

LAST year, 1, 359 infants in Nigeria tested positive to HIV, a spike in mother-to child-transmission when compared to…

Red Card Movement tweets after one month of inactivity, announces Ezekwesili’s…

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 8, 2018

THE Red Card Movement, citizens' political mobilisation founded by Oby Ezekwesili, has tweeted after one month of…

ROLL CALL: Here are 10 Nigerian journalists murdered with impunity in two decades

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 2, 2018

TODAY is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. The Day was instituted after the UN…

Does Donald Duke earn N156 thousand per month as he claims?

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 31, 2018

DONALD Duke, former governor of Cross Rivers State and presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has…

SNOOPING ON TWITTER: Ezekwesili’s non-partisan #RedCardMovement dies after she joins…

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 30, 2018

AMIDST the excitement of New Year resolution, Oby Ezekwesili gave a red card to Nigeria’s ruling party and the main…

Again Nigeria makes the list of 14 countries where journalists are murdered with…

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 30, 2018

FOR failing to bring murderers of journalists to justice, Nigeria is ranked 13 out of 14 countries in the 2018 Global…

FACT CHECK: World Economic Forum misleads Nigerians on country’s ranking

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 19, 2018

NIGERIA'S progress in the latest Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) is…

New report by 91 scientists warns of immediate impact of climate change

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 8, 2018

A new climate change report by 91 scientists from 40 countries has warned that hundreds of millions of people around the…

UPDATED: Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar emerges PDP presidential candidate

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 7, 2018

ATIKU Abubakar, former Vice President, has emerged the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…

Aisha Buhari slams APC of impunity after her brother lost governorship bid

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 7, 2018

THE First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) for not providing fair and neutral…

Kwankwaso says he’s popular than Buhari in North and will beat him if he gets PDP…

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 5, 2018

RABI’U Musa Kwankwaso says he is more popular than President Muhammadu Buhari in the northern part of the country which…

POPULATION: Nigeria’s singular growth since Independence

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 1, 2018

FROM fewer than 50 million people in 1960 to an estimated 198 million people now, population is the unparalleled and…

Race to climate action:Is Africa being left behind?

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 28, 2018

EARLIER in September – when leaders from states and regions, cities, business, investors and civil society around the…

Skye Bank takeover: A journey from Afribank to Polaris Bank

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 22, 2018

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced on Friday that it has taken over the Skye Bank over the inability of the…

Cross River asks international climate financiers to give money directly to states

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 14, 2018

Chikezie OMEJE writes from San Francisco, USA. WITH over 50 per cent of the forests in Nigeria located in Cross River,…

‘We’re not small potatoes’: California leads US to uphold Paris climate agreement

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 13, 2018

Chikezie OMEJE writes from San Francisco, USA. AFTER more than one year that Donald Trump, the United States President,…

Gathering to save the Earth: Is it too late to stop humans from destroying the…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 12, 2018

Chikezie OMEJE writes from San Francisco, USA. THE Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, United States, begins…

Cholera outbreak kills 14 persons in Borno, 380 suspected cases recorded

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 6, 2018

FOURTEEN people have been killed by cholera outbreak in Borno State. United Nations Office for the Coordination of…

Groping in the dark: More than four million Nigerian children are unaccounted for…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 4, 2018

Each year, more than seven million babies – equal to the population of Sierra Leone – are born in Nigeria.  But over…

Boko Haram attacks military base again, kills many soldiers

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 1, 2018

AT least 30 Nigerian soldiers were killed in combat with Boko Haram jihadists who overran a military base in the…

Sore loser – Twitter users mock Moghalu after he brushed off straw poll

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 31, 2018

Kingsley Moghalu’s integrity is open to question after he rejected a straw poll to select a consensus candidate among…

Ahead of tomorrow’s visit, Theresa May says Nigeria is poverty capital of the…

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 28, 2018

THERESA May, Prime Minister of United Kingdom (UK), appears to be the first leader of a country to recognise Nigeria as…

10 months after launch, N732 million Nigeria’s solid minerals web portal is deficient

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 27, 2018

THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved 732 million to develop an interactive online portal for solid minerals in…

Kofi Annan: Africa’s proud son who married a Nigerian

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 19, 2018

KOFI Atta Annan, a twin and schoolboy from Ghana, who rose to the world’s stage to become the seventh secretary-general…

Court adjourns Jones Abiri trial to September 5

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 17, 2018

THE Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court has adjourned the trial of Jones Abiri, a Bayelsa-based journalist who was arrested by…

Again DSS fails to present witnesses against Abiri – Court threatens to strike out…

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 16, 2018

FOR the second time, the Department of State Service (DSS) has failed to present any witness against Jones Abiri who was…

Nigeria has fewer than 50 specialists for cancer treatment, says Chidebe

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 14, 2018

WITH a population of about 200 million people, Nigeria has fewer than 50 medical professionals who are specialists in…

Colourful cassava, maize and potato for sale in Nigeria

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 13, 2018

A NEW orange-fleshed sweet potato that looks like a carrot is now being planted and sold in Nigeria. Yellow cassava and…

Tippy taps: How pupils in Anambra engineer running water when borehole taps are dry

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 9, 2018

DURING much of the school hours, newly installed water points remain dry at Anuli Community School in Ezinifite, Aguata…

Children going blind at Ruga near Abuja City Gate get assistance

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 8, 2018

THE Federal Capital Territory Public Health Department has carried out eye screening at Ruga, close to Abuja City Gate,…

Court softens bail conditions for DSS detained journalist Jones Abiri

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 8, 2018

AN Abuja Magistrate Court at Wuse Zone 2 has lessened the bail conditions for Jones Abiri, a Bayelsa-based journalist…

UPDATED: Osinbajo sacks DSS Director-General Daura

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 7, 2018

ACTING President, Yemi Osinbajo, has sacked the Director General of Department of Security Service (DSS), Lawal Daura.…

DSS fails to produce witnesses against detained journalist Jones Abiri

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 2, 2018

THE Department of Security Service (DSS) has failed to bring any witness to court at the commencement of hearing on the…

When parents are given money in Sokoto State, they let girls go to school

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 1, 2018

NO girl has ever transited to secondary school in more than 40 years history of Mazangari Primary School in Bodinga,…

At Ruga, near Abuja City Gate, children are going blind – Causes yet unknown

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 31, 2018

IT begins with itching. Swelling of the eyes follows. The swollen eyelids tighten up and the children are unable to open…

Mixed reactions meet report of branding police patrol cars with Dangote

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 30, 2018

NIGERIANS are split over the rightness of branding police operational cars with Dangote Foundation because the cars were…

Dangote’s police cars: What’s wrong with branded police’s patrol vehicles with…

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 25, 2018

IN Abuja and across some of the states, brand new police operational cars have been sighted with the name of the African…

What Okonjo-Iweala brings to Twitter as a board member

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 22, 2018

BEYOND diversity, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is also bringing policy expertise and global financial connections to Twitter. The…

Anambra, Delta, Kogi… How governors misappropriate billions through security votes

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 20, 2018

WILLIE Obiano, Governor of Anambra State, earmarked N42.6 billion for his security votes in three years – money he will…

There’s no state in Nigeria without malnourished children – CS-SUNN

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 17, 2018

CIVIL Society Scaling-up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) says every state in Nigeria has a problem of childhood…

Audacious contempt: How Adeosun, FG ignore Nigerians week after certificate forgery…

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 14, 2018

KEMI Adeosun, Minister of Finance, has refused to comment on the allegation that she skipped the one-year mandatory…

Spending Abacha’s loot, borrowing $500 million… 10 points summary of FG’s cash…

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 9, 2018

MARYAM Uwais, the Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments invited the ICIR for a meeting on Monday last…

OBITUARY: Advice that changed Ciroma’s life

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 7, 2018

ADAMU Ciroma’s unusual left eye was not just his unique facial feature but also played pivotal role in his career. He…

INVESTIGATION: Poorest Nigerians deprived of federal government’s cash transfer

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 27, 2018

Living in extreme poverty does not entitle a household to N5, 000 monthly handouts, a social protection initiative by…

Plateau killings: Buhari fiddles while nation burns

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 25, 2018

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly scored himself high in the area of security despite the  frequent killings of…

When will our Ebola heroes be honoured? Nigerians ask as Sierra Leone immortalises…

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 7, 2018

FACES of Sierra Leonean doctors who lost their lives during the Ebola crisis have graced the country’s postage stamp as…

From Melaye to Saraki: An emerging pattern of absurdity in the Nigerian police…

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 5, 2018

THE police on Sunday invited Bukola Saraki, the President of the Senate and the number three citizens of the country,…

No Tobacco Day: Warning smokers of dying young is ineffectual, but sanctions are not

Chikezie OMEJE May 31, 2018

Cigarette smokers do not care how long they will live or the health risks associated with smoking. If they do, nobody…

SCORECARD: Three years in office, Buhari fails to kill corruption

Chikezie OMEJE May 29, 2018

MUHAMMADU Buhari took oath of office as the President of Nigeria exactly three years ago, after a campaign…

REVEALED: EFCC investigations exonerated Obasanjo from corruption

Chikezie OMEJE May 26, 2018

A CONCLUSIVE investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had absolved former…

FACT CHECK: President Buhari’s fancy lies on past oil prices

Chikezie OMEJE May 23, 2018

MUHAMMADU Buhari, Nigeria’s President, loves to repeat a claim about oil prices averaging $100 from 1999 to…

SPECIAL REPORT: When girls are singled out, boys lose out in school

Chikezie OMEJE May 23, 2018

EVIDENCE has shown that when parents are specifically empowered to send girls to school, they gain an advantage…

FACT CHECK: IGP’s ‘transmission’ video wasn’t doctored

Chikezie OMEJE May 19, 2018

A video emerged online Wednesday, showing a scene where Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police (IGP),…

FACT CHECK: Has FG implemented 14 of 15-point demand by JOHESU? No

Chikezie OMEJE May 13, 2018

Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health, has claimed that the Federal Government has implemented 14 of the…

Ebola: FG plans to send team to Congo – Is Nigeria ready for potential outbreak?

Chikezie OMEJE May 9, 2018

Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC) will consider sending a medical team to Democratic Republic of Congo…

Super Tucano aircraft, budget defence… Five actions that delayed passage of 2018…

Chikezie OMEJE May 9, 2018

A budget of N8.612 trillion for 2018 was presented to the joint session of National Assembly on November…

JOHESU Strike: National Hospital doesn’t have folders for patients to see doctors

Chikezie OMEJE May 8, 2018

While President Muhammadu Buhari and other politicians could fly out of the country at any moment for medical…

Weight Loss Revolution: Why scientists are worried about ketogenic diet

Chikezie OMEJE May 4, 2018

An increasing number of Nigerians are embracing the controversial ketogenic diet. This diet has shown dramatic weight…

Court gives EFCC 45 days to file charges against Patience Jonathan

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 30, 2018

A Federal High Court in Abuja has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) 45 days to…

Army arrest Boko Haram mastermind of Benue herdsmen killings

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 28, 2018

Aminu Yaminu, suspected Boko Haram commander and the alleged mastermind of recent killings in Benue…

Stop shaving women before delivery, Wamakko advises midwives

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 22, 2018

Ruqayya Wamakko, a medical doctor and the Reproductive Health Coordinator at the FCT Primary Healthcare…

Giver, beggar, racist – 3 unique identifiers in China-Africa relationship

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 22, 2018

China’s presence in the continent is creating an impression of a new saviour complex – the second largest…

INVESTIGATION: Strike, miracle jobs, salary cuts… how slush funds tore Akanu…

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 20, 2018

Attempts to cover up years of graft in Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana in Afikpo, Ebonyi State have…

Keyamo: Gani Fawehinmi supported Buhari… that’s why I’m doing the…

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 18, 2018

Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says he accepted to serve as Director, Strategic…

Borodin, Russian investigative journalist, dies in mysterious circumstances

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 16, 2018

Russian investigative journalist, Maksim Borodin of Yekaterinburg, has died of injuries sustained on…

APPLY: ICIR’s human rights and criminal justice training for journalists

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 9, 2018

The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) is inviting applications from journalists for…

NBS pulls down misleading education statistics after fact check by ICIR

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 6, 2018

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has secretly pulled down inaccurate and misleading 'Education Statistics'…

SPECIAL REPORT: Your children can recite alphabets or numbers? Doesn’t mean…

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 4, 2018

Forget reciting the alphabet or memorizing the numbers from one to 10 or 100. For children, play is actually a…

INVESTIGATION: Survivors of herdsmen attacks tormented by deaths, rape at Benue IDP…

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 4, 2018

Fear of the known – killer herdsmen – dissuaded taxi drivers in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, from taking the ICIR…

Reno Omokri, Jonathan’s media aide, releases ‘APC looters list’

Chikezie OMEJE Apr 2, 2018

Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has released a list of alleged looters of public funds who…

Sergei Mavrodi, MMM founder, dies of heart attack

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 26, 2018

Sergei Mavrodi, Russian businessman whose MMM pyramid scheme deprived millions of Nigerians of their savings in…

INFOGRAPHICS: Proof that child brides are likely to birth stunted children

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 26, 2018

In a lot of campaigns against the handing out of girls to full-grown men in marriage, there is huge talk about…

World Water Day: The data behind Nigeria’s woeful drinking water situation

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 22, 2018

Safe drinking water is a luxury in Nigeria and only a negligible percentage of the population has access to this…

Marielle Franco, black female politician and human rights defender, shot dead in…

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 16, 2018

Marielle Franco, a female black politician, has been shot dead along with her driver by two men in what appears…

FACT CHECK: Did Nigeria record a reduction in preschool enrolment?

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 16, 2018

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently reported that the number of children who enrolled in public…

ERA praise for FG over new excise duty on tobacco

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 15, 2018

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), a nonprofit organization, has commended…

The accessible billionaire’s legacy

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 10, 2018

In post–World War II America, when John D. MacArthur earned his millions, he was the least known of the nation's…

Buhari-Senate showdown: ICPC gets two acting chairmen in six months

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 9, 2018

Bako Abdullahi, Acting Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission…

‘We won’t retract our story’ — Daily Independent dares DSS despite…

Chikezie OMEJE Mar 5, 2018

Don Okere, Editor of Daily Independent, has insisted that the newspaper will not retract a story for which the…

DATA: Who influenced Nigeria’s ranking in TI’s corruption perceptions…

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 27, 2018

In reaction to 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index by the Transparency International (TI), the Nigerian government…

FG abandoned scholar, Adesola Bello, targets N10.4 million on GoFundMe to settle…

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 22, 2018

Adesola Bello, a beneficiary of Presidential Special Scholarship for Innovation and Development (PRESSID), and a…

World Mother Tongue Day: Awaiting Kerry Washington’s tweet for Nigerian children

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 21, 2018

Kerry Washington, an African-American Hollywood actress, made headlines in Nigeria last week when she tweeted in…

JOB ALERT: African Editor at Global Investigative Journalism Network

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 20, 2018

The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) is looking for an editor for Sub-Saharan Africa. The deadline…

APPLY: €5,000 Lorenzo Natali Prize for outstanding journalism

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 20, 2018

The Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize is inviting entries from journalists committed to defending democracy and…

Two Boko Haram detainees bag 50, 60 years jail terms for refusing to denounce sect

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 18, 2018

Abba Umar and Yusuf Mohammed have been sentenced to 60 and 50 years jail terms respectively for refusing to…

UN agency holds business training for Nigerian migrants

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 18, 2018

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has conducted a four-day business skills training for 72…

Yari, Zamfara governor, stays away from state despite massive killings

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 16, 2018

Abdulaziz Yari, Governor of Zamfara State, has not returned to the state three days after tens of people were…

Court adjourns Cable Foundation’s Abacha loot suit against AGF till Feb 28

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 14, 2018

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has adjourned hearing of a suit filed against the Attorney General of the…

Bloody year loading? Three journalists killed in 2018 already

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 14, 2018

Two journalists and one citizen journalist have already been killed in connection with their work so far this year,…

‘Career politicians have failed’ — Ex-CBN chief Moghalu eyes 2019…

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 12, 2018

Kingsley Moghalu,  former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has indicated interest in…

Liberia’s Sirleaf becomes first woman to win $5m Mo Ibrahim leadership prize

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 12, 2018

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, has won a coveted prize of $5 million for leadership…

READY: Arraignment of Ananaba, rights activist who ‘enslaved 10-year-old…

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 11, 2018

Ada Onyejike-Ananaba, founder of the Girl Child Art Foundation (GCAF), will be arraigned in courton Monday  for…

7.7m people in the northeast need help — 930,000 of them cannot be reached

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 8, 2018

Of the 7.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance this year in the worst-affected states of Borno,…

‘Accept my sympathies’ — Saraki mocks CCT chairman over EFCC fraud charge

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 6, 2018

Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, has expressed his "sympathies" to Danladi Umar, Chairman of Code of Conduct…

SPECIAL REPORT: How English disrupts the education of Nigerian children

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 3, 2018

Nigeria’s national education policy states that children in preschool and lower primary school should be taught in their…

Sadiq Daba, cancer survivor, to lead walk against cancer in Abuja

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 2, 2018

Sadiq Daba, a veteran broadcaster and actor, will join other Nigerians to lead the Abuja Cancer Awareness Walk this…

Bad news for journalists… International Reporting Project folds up after 20…

Chikezie OMEJE Feb 1, 2018

After two decades of supporting journalists to cover crucial under-reported issues across the world, the…

SPECIAL REPORT: Charcoal… feeding the poor, killing the environment

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 31, 2018

For the urban poor, charcoal provides an affordable source of energy for cooking. As rural farmers turn to charcoal…

ANALYSIS: FG has cut funding for nutrition — and the consequences will be…

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 19, 2018

The Federal Government has cut funding for a nutritional programme designed to save thousands of lives among an…

Kidnappers kill two policemen, abduct American, Canadian in Kaduna

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 18, 2018

Kidnappers have killed two policemen and abducted two foreigners — an American and a Canadian — in Kaduna State.…

42 per cent of proposed 2018 budget not useful to the people, laments BudgIT

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 17, 2018

Administrative items such buying of cars, retrofitting of government offices, trainings, consultancies, and…

Why Gates Foundation is paying off Nigeria’s $76 million debt to Japan

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 16, 2018

For meeting crucial targets on polio eradication campaigns, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) will…

Sanusi: Over 800 Fulani were murdered in one weekend but the media ignored it

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 14, 2018

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano, says the media coverage of killings in the north central part of the country has…

Nigeria should have no more than eight federating units, says Anyaoku

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 13, 2018

Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary General of Commonwealth, says Nigeria should be restructured to solve its…

BAD NEWS: You can no longer use Facebook to grow your website

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 12, 2018

Facebook, the social media platform, will henceforth restrict the amount of public content — posts from…

Adebayo Shittu on Buhari: If a child does well in secondary school, let him go to…

Chikezie OMEJE Jan 4, 2018

Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communications, says the South West campaign office for the reelection of President…

Partisan politics to blame for Buhari’s appointment of dead people, says SERAP

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 31, 2017

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to "take partisan…

NNPC failed to remit $16.8 bn to federation account in 15 years, reveals NEITI audit

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 29, 2017

Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) failed to remit $16.8 billion from the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas…

It’s the season of park rides, but how safe are Abuja’s amusement parks?

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 29, 2017

Over the weekend and Christmas holiday, thousands of Abuja residents —  both adults and children — thronged the…

FIGURES: Buhari’s State House is more expensive than Jonathan’s

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 24, 2017

Additional reports by Damilola Ojetunde and Victoria Nwaziri For three consecutive years, President Muhammadu…

DATA: N6trn 2018 budgets for 20 states, where will the money come from?

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 21, 2017

Additional reports by Damilola Ojetunde and Victoria Nwaziri Twenty states that have so far presented their 2018…

Italian court orders Shell, Eni to stand trial over bribery scandal in Nigeria

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 20, 2017

An Italian judge has ordered oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and Eni to stand trial over alleged corruption in Nigeria,…

ActionAid asks AU to suspend Libya over enslavement of migrants

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 18, 2017

ActionAid International, a non-governmental organisation, wants Libya suspended from the African Union (AU) until…

INVESTIGATION: UBEC projects are failing, public-school students are suffering

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 18, 2017

Contracts worth over N300 million awarded to briefcase companies by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for…

Governors approve $1bn from excess crude account for Boko Haram war

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 14, 2017

The 36 state governors of the federation have approved the release of $1 billion from the Excess Crude…

Buhari: Kano crowd proves that if elections are contested today, I will no doubt win…

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 6, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari says the mammoth crowd that welcomed him to Kano has convinced him that he still is loved…

TWO FACES OF MALNUTRITION (II): Urban children are suffering from adult diseases

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 6, 2017

In this second part of two articles on malnutrition in Nigeria, CHIKEZIE OMEJE reports that food choices and lifestyle…

Ananaba, founder of girl rights NGO, arrested for ‘enslaving’ 10-year-old…

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 6, 2017

The Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in the Lagos State Ministry of Justice has rescued a 10-year-old…

Obstetrician reveals how FGM caused a couple to unknowingly engage in anal sex

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 4, 2017

Ileogben Sunday-Adeoye, a Professor and Chief Medical Director of the National Obstetric Fistula Centre,…

Jonathan asks Shettima: Why is Chibok principal now a commissioner in your govt?

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 2, 2017

Goodluck Jonathan, the former President, has asked Kashim Shettima, Governor of Borno State, to tell the truth about…

Saraki: When I mentioned subsidy fraud to Jonathan, he replied: ‘oil business…

Chikezie OMEJE Dec 1, 2017

Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, has recounted two encounters that convinced him that Goodluck…

TWO FACES OF MALNUTRITION (1): Breeding undernourished children in North West

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 18, 2017

North West, the most populated region in Nigeria, has the highest undernourished children. Fifty-five percent of…

No law stops me from marrying policewoman, says IGP

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 12, 2017

Ibrahim Idris, Inspector-General of Police, says there is no law that prevents him from marrying a serving female…

EFCC reacts to whistle-blower allegations

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 11, 2017

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says Ibrahim Magu, chairman of the commission, was misunderstood…

Court denies Ndume N500 million damages, voids Senate suspension

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 10, 2017

The Federal High Court, Abuja has declined N500 million damages sought by Ali Ndume against the Nigerian senate for…

Ikoyi money whistle-blower is not paid – he is called a mad boy by EFCC, says…

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 10, 2017

Yakubu Galadima, the lawyer to the whistle-blower who helped the Economic  and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to…

Let’s renegotiate certain terms of our living together, says Gombe governor

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 5, 2017

Ibrahim Dankwambo, Governor of Gombe State, has thrown his weight behind the agitation for restructuring,…

Herdsmen in Benue will NOT accept anti-grazing law, says leader

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 5, 2017

Garus Gololo, Benue State Coordinator of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, says members of the…

Ortom: I’m a victim of herdsmen… I lost my rice farm and ancestral home…

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 4, 2017

Samuel Ortom, Governor of Benue State, says the state has lost over N95 billion worth of goods and property, including…

From petty vegetable farming in Ikorodu, Nigerian scholar Adewale wins $100,000 agric…

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 2, 2017

Cornelius Adewale, a former vegetable farmer and current Ph.D. candidate at Washington State University, has won the…

MADE IN ABA: How Nigeria’s untapped manufacturing gold mine is ‘competing…

Chikezie OMEJE Nov 2, 2017

“Everything can be made in Aba,” says Uche Jumbo, a Nollywood actress, on a billboard along the Aba-Owerri road in Aba. …

SPOTTED: Babachir Lawal ‘still the SGF’ more than 24 hours after sack

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 31, 2017

Babachir Lawal or Boss Mustapha? Who is the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)? Well, we can't really…

Toilet papers do not remove faeces from the anus, doctors, celebs warn

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 31, 2017

Doctors have warned that toilet papers do little to remove faeces, and have therefore advocated the use of wet wipes…

UPDATED: Buhari sacks Babachir Lawal, Ayo Oke

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 30, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Babachir Lawal, the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation…

Sule Lamido: The smaller thieves are still in PDP but the bigger thieves fled to APC

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 29, 2017

Sule Lamido, former Governor of Jigawa State and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, says the…

NAPTIP to investigate ‘human organ harvesting’ being disguised as…

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 29, 2017

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has resolved to investigate the rising…

It’s not possible to restructure Nigeria, says Gowon

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 28, 2017

Yakubu Gowon, former Military Head of State, says the restructuring of the country as currently agitated for, is…

Amina Mohammed tells old Nigerians to stop competing with youth for UN jobs

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 22, 2017

Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General and former Minister of Environment, has urged older Nigerians to stop…

I never went to school but I now supervise master’s and Ph.D. holders, says…

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 21, 2017

Muhammdu Indimi, the businessman from Borno State who admitted donating $900,000 to Lynn University, US, last year,…

The anti-corruption war must continue with or without me, says Magu

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 20, 2017

Ibrahim Magu, Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), says Nigeria's war against corruption must…

Army’s error leads to killing of 22 people at Plateau school

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 18, 2017

The Nigerian army has admitted abandoning 22 people killed inside a primary school by suspected Fulani herdsmen at…

UNESCO moves to build resilience in children through play

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 18, 2017

Children in rural communities in Adamawa and Ebonyi states will gain from a new programme by UNESCO to build their…

Galizia, Panama Papers journalist dubbed ‘one-woman WikiLeaks’, killed by…

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 18, 2017

Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta, was killed on…

SAFETY ALERT: Traffickers and illegal harvesters are hunting for human kidney

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 17, 2017

The Federal Ministry of Health has written a letter to the Nigerian Medical Associations (NMA) to alert doctors on the…

200 human rights organisations seek expulsion of tobacco companies from ILO

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 16, 2017

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and nearly 200 other public health and human rights organisations have asked the…

KACHIKWU’S ALLEGATIONS: NNPC responds to one, keeps mum on the other

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 9, 2017

In a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari,  Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources raised two…

Biafra agitation is a case of sour grapes and bad sportsmanship, says Jigawa governor

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 7, 2017

Abubakar Badaru, Governor of Jigawa says those agitating for the division of Nigeria should get their acts together…

1000 human skulls from Africa resurface in Germany

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 6, 2017

Germany has launched a two-year study to determine the origins of more than 1,000 human skulls, mostly from Rwanda,…

UNICEF sets three ambitious goals for Nigeria on early childhood development

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 5, 2017

Two years of free pre-primary education, six months of paid maternity leave, and four weeks of paid paternity leave…

Tanzanian president slashes own salary to $4,000/month — lower than top govt…

Chikezie OMEJE Oct 4, 2017

John Magufuli, Tanzanian President, has readjusted his monthly earnings to 9 million Tanzanian shillings ($4,000),…

INTERVIEW: Children can understand 11 languages, says early childhood education…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 29, 2017

Emem Opashi is the director of the Sage School, an early childhood development centre in Abuja. Emen who is an early…

17 NGOs sue FG over ‘illegal’ permits for GM cotton and maize

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 20, 2017

A group of 17 non-governmental organisations has filed a suit against the federal government before the Abuja…

UNVEILED: Four finalists but only one will win MacArthur’s $100m grant

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 20, 2017

From almost 2,000 proposals, four finalists have emerged in the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change, a…

How 28 govt initiatives in 10 years failed to end preventable newborn deaths

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 19, 2017

An estimated 7.4 million babies are born in Nigeria every year but 94,000 of them die on the first day of birth…

For the second year in a row, a Nigerian wins BBC Komla Dumor Award

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 19, 2017

Amina Yuguda, a journalist from Adamawa State, has won the third BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. She is now…

‘Hard work and faith in serving God’ — why Violet Brown lived for 117…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 18, 2017

Violet Brown, a Jamaican who until Friday was the world’s oldest person, lived for 117 years and 189 days. Want to…

Zanna Mustapha wins $150,000 UN prize — for refusing to shut down his school despite…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 18, 2017

Zannah Mustapha, a lawyer in Borno State who negotiated the release of Chibok girls from Boko Haram…

Akinyemi: The average northerner believes in Buhari — not Atiku or IBB

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 17, 2017

Bolaji Akinyemi, a professor of political science and former Minister of External Affairs, says an average person on…

‘Big men came to purchase human parts’ — lady recounts experience after…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 17, 2017

Mary Olaniyan, an 18-year-old student of the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, who spent 11 days in a thick forest…

10 Nigerians ‘sail to Lebanon’ — on the bill of the Wole Soyinka…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 16, 2017

Ten Nigerians have arrived Lebanon to begin a 10-day intensive study on history and culture at Cedars…

LAUNCHED: A web-based platform for victims to report sexual violence

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 16, 2017

 'Salvus', a web-based platform providing an opportunity for victims of sexual violence to report and get justice,…

INVESTIGATION: Abuja residents are dying in their hundreds — and faulty traffic…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 14, 2017

In 18 months, between January 2016 and June 2017, 430 persons have been killed in road accidents in Abuja, the nation’s…

UN initiative bans tobacco companies from rendering help on SDGs

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 13, 2017

The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has delisted tobacco companies from participating in its initiative of…

Soldiers return to Nnamdi Kanu’s home with 10 armoured vehicles

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 12, 2017

Soldiers have surrounded the country home of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), with…

Daura rail line will address import competition from Ghana, Togo, says Amaechi

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 11, 2017

Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, says the federal government approved the new rail line to Daura to…

‘Ghana must go’… how manufactured penalties, denied goals fetched…

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 8, 2017

Ghanaian referee Joseph Odartei Lamptey on Wednesday lost his appeal to upturn a life ban from participating in any…

Mental disorder high among Nigerian prostitutes in Italy — and juju is to blame

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 3, 2017

Italian psychiatrists and psychologists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution in…

South African police kill another Nigerian — at least the 118th in two years

Chikezie OMEJE Sep 1, 2017

Kingsley Ikeri, a Nigerian, has been killed by the police at Vryheid town in Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa…

Ethiopia bids to take over Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 31, 2017

Ethiopian Airlines, which is wholly owned by the Ethiopian government, has made an offer to the federal government…

Golfer, chorister, genius… Ochoa, the 23-year-old Oxford PhD student who…

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 31, 2017

Twenty-three-year-old Rafael Ochoa was a PhD student when he committed suicide in April 2016, and an…

APC gains extra seat as appeal court sacks Rivers senator, Sekibo

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 24, 2017

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has sacked George Thompson Sekibo, the senator representing Rivers East Senatorial Zone…

JAMB lowers universities’ cut off-mark to 120 due to poor performance

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 23, 2017

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed minimum cut-off marks for admission into…

REPORT: BAT ‘killing’ Africans with cheap cigarettes

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 22, 2017

Fresh revelations by the Guardian UK have further proven that the British American Tobacco (BAT) engaged in…

In six months, governors received N760.18bn Paris Club refund ‘to pay…

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 20, 2017

The federal government released N760.18bn Paris Club debt refund to 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory…

IDP camps have become death traps, laments Norwegian Refugee Council

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 16, 2017

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is worried that Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps in north-eastern Nigeria…

How attack on Charly Boy nearly sparked a Hausa-Igbo crisis at Wuse market

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 15, 2017

Charly Boy and his men entered Wuse market, Abuja, mid-morning on Tuesday but what ensued afterwards was a…

With just N1,000, you can help Destiny Trust send 100 homeless children to school

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 15, 2017

Destiny Trust, a social intervention providing education, rehabilitation and empowerment to…

Traffic wardens flee as Igbo traders rescue Charly Boy from lynching

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 15, 2017

Charly Boy, popular musician and leader of the #OurMumuDonDo protest, would have been lynched on Tuesday when he…

Adenuga, Lukman, Diezani… Olojede lists the powerful Nigerians who killed NEXT

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 14, 2017

Pervasive corruption and the attitude of Nigerians who are not shocked by scandals make it difficult for…

RESEARCHED: Boko Haram has bombed more Islamic than Christian institutions

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 12, 2017

Despite its standing as an Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram has bombed more Islamic than Christian…

At Badagry prison, children are left sick, stinking and dying — and in company of…

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 9, 2017

Children imprisoned with convicted armed robbers and murderers at the Badagry prison in Lagos are hungry, sick and…

It kills 5,000 every year… 10 things to know about Lassa Fever, Ebola’s…

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 9, 2017

An outbreak of Lassa fever has been reported in Lagos, with two deaths already recorded, including that of a…

Jacob Zuma survives no-confidence vote — the eighth time in eight years

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 8, 2017

Jacob Zuma, South African President, has survived another no-confidence vote, the eighth time he has faced such…

QUESTION: For how long can Buhari stay in London and remain president? Dicey

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 8, 2017

For how long can Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s ailing President, stay in London for medical treatment? Is…

Inspired by Fela’s anti-govt songs, protesters demand Buhari’s resignation

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 7, 2017

Protesters fired up by anti-establishment songs of Afrobeat musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti on Monday demanded the…

Many killed as gunman attacks Catholic church in Anambra during early-morning mass

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 6, 2017

Dozens of worshippers were killed by an unidentified gunman during an early-morning Mass on Sunday at the…

Scientists warn: Stop giving babies water, it ‘kills’ them

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 4, 2017

A popular belief in Nigeria is that everyone needs to drink water to survive. Legendary musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti…

BAT faces prosecution for ‘bribing’ government officials in African…

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 2, 2017

Matthew Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, has called for full prosecution of British…

Three things from Uganda that will help poor Nigerian parents raise healthy,…

Chikezie OMEJE Aug 1, 2017

Poverty is not a barrier to raising high-fliers, writes Chikezie Omeje after returning from a reporting…

Policemen rob Jonathan’s house, cart away multi-million-naira items

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 31, 2017

Police officers have burgled and looted an Abuja home of Goodluck Jonathan, former President of the country.…

After begging for funds all over the world, UN sends $10.5m to Nigeria’s…

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 31, 2017

The United Nations, through a new fund set up to tackle the crisis-hit northeast, has allocated over $10.5m to help…

Police have no single evidence against Evans, says lawyer

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 30, 2017

Olukoya Ogungbeje, lawyer of Chukwudi Onwuamadike, the self-confessed billionaire kidnapper popularly known as…

CLOSE-UP: Jeff Bezos, book seller, son of teenage parents, the world’s richest man

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 28, 2017

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, on Thursday overtook Microsoft’s Bill Gates to become the world’s richest person as…

For senate president’s wife, a bracelet can stop Nigerian children from dying

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 14, 2017

A bracelet worn on a new-born baby’s wrist or ankle until the baby is nine months old is believed by Toyin Saraki, wife…

We played a limited role in the spending of Abacha loot, says World Bank

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 12, 2017

The World Bank says it did not participate in the spending of the loot recovered from Sani Abacha, former Nigerian…

115 advocates trained to end FGM in Imo

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 11, 2017

One hundred and fifteen community activists have been trained and empowered in Imo State to deepen the…

Private schools dump ‘outdated, irrelevant’ Nigerian curriculum for UK,…

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 11, 2017

Following the failure of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to develop appropriate…

Lagos court slams N76m bail on American who ‘defrauded’ three Nigerians

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 10, 2017

An Ikeja High Court has granted bail in the sum of N76 million ($250,000) to Marco Ramirez, an American accused of …

Maitama Sule, elder statesman, dies at 88

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 3, 2017

Maitama Sule, former Minister of Petroleum and former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, is dead. He…

Cardinal Onaiyekan urges Christians to ‘christianise Nigeria’

Chikezie OMEJE Jul 2, 2017

John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, has dismissed fears by Christians that Muslims want to…

DATA: The unjust resource allocations that make a case for restructuring

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 30, 2017

Additional reports by Oluwadamilola Ojetunde and Victoria Nwaziri The sharing of N12.84…

The sight of a united Nigeria lifts the world, says US ambassador

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 29, 2017

Stuart Symington, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, has called on Nigerians to resist the temptation to divide…

Four ‘Ogoni Nine’ widows sue Shell for ‘complicity’ in their…

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 29, 2017

Four widows of men who were hanged along with Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 by Nigeria’s military government have launched a…

FLASHBACK: How Suntai and associates held Taraba to ransom for three years

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 29, 2017

Dambaba Suntai, former Governor of Taraba State, a man who survived food poisoning and plane crash,…

Suntai, plane crash survivor, former Taraba governor, dies at 55

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 28, 2017

Danbaba Suntai, former Governor of Taraba State, whose 56th birthday is only two days away, has died. According…

How Boko Haram slaughters babies with double-edged knives and collects their blood in…

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 28, 2017

Boko Haram insurgents kill their sons and use blood to wash their hands when they return from fighting, a…

Buhari’s illness, ‘Coordinating President Osinbajo’… five…

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 13, 2017

On Monday, the 2017 Appropriation Bill was signed into law by Acting President Yemi Osibanjo — one month…

Another whistle-blower sacked — the second in three months

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 12, 2017

Murtala Ibrahim, a former auditor with the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), is the latest person…

Osotimehin, UNFPA boss and ex-health minister, dies at 68

Chikezie OMEJE Jun 5, 2017

Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and former Minister of Health, is…