Governance

IN clear violation of the new guideline by the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has spent the sum of N202 million on six contracts from the COVID-19 Intervention Fund without evidence of…
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THE Lagos and Ogun State governments have made multiple public claims to stop inter state movements as part of measures to curtail the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in their respective states but checks by The ICIR revealed that…
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MORE than 90 days after the Federal Government launched its Open Treasury Portal (OTP)  for government ministries, departments and agencies to upload their daily financial information on procurement, the portal has not been updated since…
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Life for many of Nigeria’s visually impaired persons is often laced with sorrow and heart-breaking tales. For children, it is a worrying mix. In this report, KELECHUKWU OGU, a skilled and unsighted journalist, visits a handful of states in…
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FROM the entrance, the Delta Ports, mostly known as Warri Port of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) appears functional. It has a developed land area of 216.19 hectares with a container handling capacity of 333, 000 teu. At the gate are…
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By Femi Owolabi Story Highlights  School feeding lasted a few weeks in most schools   school enrolment and attendance have dropped There is poor supervision  Government claims it is not aware of any problem with the…
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School children in Abuja, the federal capital territory of Nigeria, still defecate in the open field because there are no functional toilet facilities within the school premises. Seun DUROJAIYE visited some of the schools in the Abuja…
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Women of Borno have seen it all: Torture,  killings and prolonged detention of their sons and husbands by soldiers fighting insurgency in northeastern Nigeria since 2009. Now the women can no longer bear suffering and injustice that come…
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Six years ago, the Federal Government unbundled the power Holding Company of Nigerian (PHCN) and handed over 18 utility firms to private investors. Government raked in $2.5 billion (about N916.575bn) from the transaction involving six…
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In April 2017, Aliyu Umar, 27, began his day at dawn. He started by carefully preparing charcoal fire with which he would prepare breakfast of noodles, fried eggs, bread and tea for his early morning customers. His shop was a hotspot for…
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