Governance

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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Health is wealth. But quarry communities in Ogun are losing both to mining companies that are breaking everything, including the mining laws, Gbenga OGUNDARE reports. A HUGE dose of entrenched ignorance and lethargy. That is about the…
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 In part 2 of this report, Evelyn OKAKWU spotlight the condition of the victims of poor administration of justice in Kaduna prison. CHUKWUDI Onyeamachi was remanded at the Augwu police station, Enugu, in November 2018 for…
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For nearly two years, Chris Chom and 61 other inmates shared a filthy cell in the Kaduna State Central Prisons.
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THE hour was 1 pm on Wednesday, May 15, and power supply at the Radio House, Abuja, had just been cut. Ironically, the entire hallway on the ninth floor echoed with cheers of workers who seemed to be familiar with the power outage.  Five…
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Zamfara State has been a hotbed of killings and kidnappings. The media is awash with daily reportage of these incidents. These casualities are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have been gruesomely uprooted from their families.
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By Wilfred Okiche ENUGU State, capital of the South East geopolitical zone, has 99 problems but a shoddy intra-state road network isn’t one of them. The reason for this? The 'Visit Every Community (VEC) Programme' which, for ten years now,…
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By Daniel Adugbo IT is the second time in two years that Mr. Adewumi Alabi, a federal civil servant in Abuja, would cough out over N200,000 to replace the damaged engine of his Acura MDX 2008 model car. The Acura is his second car in the…
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By Justina ASISHANA RUSTY iron works, overgrown bushes and massive presence of an idle crane are the discomforting features of the supposed ultra-modern edifice called the Minna City Centre project. Located in the centre of Minna, the…
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THE use of electronic mails for the swift exchange of information has been in vogue for about five decades. Accompanying the invention of the internet, emails have no doubt transformed how people communicate. Across the world, people — and…
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