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INVESTIGATION… Thugs rule in Rivers markets, force multiple illegal taxes on petty traders, as govt…

admin Aug 2, 2019

There are 98 million Nigerians living in extreme poverty, according to a report by the United Nations. To survive, many, especially women engage in petty trading in various markets. But the youths in Rivers State communities, who…
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INVESTIGATION: Abia State — Federal roads in bad shape, as run-away contractors abandon projects

admin Jul 30, 2019

Some months before the 2019 general elections, a number of governors in South East Nigeria indicted the federal government of negligence in implementation of capital projects. Promptly reacting, the Federal Government reeled out a 69-road…
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Inside The Polytechnic Ibadan where corruption thrives (Part I)

admin Jul 9, 2019

Without much ado, just as was done for students before me, she asked me to pen my name with matriculation number of is optional and paid to the fat lady. I penned down name my name with a wrong matriculation number
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Birth registration is low in Imo, Rivers, and govt. officials are responsible

Jennifer UGWA May 28, 2019

Only 2.8 million under-five children out of a population of 32 million in Nigeria have birth certificates. According to the law establishing the birth registration scheme in Nigeria, birth registration is free, and any child not…
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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 Sri Sai Vandana Foundation, an illegal organisation that was not registered until October last year after The ICIR…
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INVESTIGATION: How bribe-taking security operatives, gangs force Nigerians to pay dearly for food…

admin May 1, 2019

By Ibanga ISINE NIGERIAN security operatives, fake federal, state and local government revenue officials and gangsters extort over N5.8 billion annually from traders conveying livestock from the far North to the country’s South-South and…
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Here are allegedly corrupt ex-governors heading to the 9th Senate

Olugbenga ADANIKIN Apr 12, 2019

SOME Nigerian governors– incumbent and former– have won the last election and are set to join the 9th Senate, but a good number of them are on the corruption list of Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the agency that investigates …
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INVESTIGATION: How bribe-taking security operatives, gangs force Nigerians to pay dearly for food…

admin Apr 9, 2019

In this investigation, IBANGA ISINE uncovered how in a single trip, traders could pay as high as N300, 000 in illicit charges to police, soldiers and criminal gangs on highways, costs that directly go to increasing the prices of food for…
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NBET subjects staff to hardship after they exposed corruption

admin Feb 11, 2019

THE travails of Messrs Abdullahi Sambo and Waziri Bintube at Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) began in June 2017 after the former wrote to the Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing challenging his redeployment in the company.…
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NBET managing director Marilyn Amobi involved in billions of fraudulent contracts

admin Feb 8, 2019

THE managing director of the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET), Marilyn Amobi, fraudulently paid at least N2 billion to two power generating companies, documents obtained by Leaks NG have shown. Leaks NG, founded in 2018, is…
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