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Insecurity: Why peace efforts in Northwest Nigeria are not sustainable

admin Oct 16, 2019

Jibia, a border community in the North West of Nigeria, sits precariously on the road cutting through Katsina town into Niger Republic. The fierce desert wind frequently blazes through, triggering a storm of dusty earth over the market…
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Let there be light: Nigeria’s dawns of dashed hopes on electricity

admin Oct 1, 2019

By Adebayo HASSAN and Jayne AUGOYE OILFIELDS across Nigeria's resource-abundant Niger Delta spew high flames that blur the difference between day and night in the so-called host communities, like Ebedei in Delta State. The oil industry…
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How Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris turned ‘blind eye’ to fraud at…

Amos ABBA Sep 1, 2019

THE Accountant General of the Federation, AGF, Ahmed Idris was a significant player in the trail of fraudulent practices that occurred at Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Plc, NBET under the watch of Marilyn Amobi, its embattled boss, fresh…
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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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Chinese, others in search of solid minerals endanger lives in Ogun

admin Jul 17, 2019

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 Nigeria’s crowded prisons, inmates describe terrible feeding, sanitation (2)

admin Jul 9, 2019

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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SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Nigeria’s prisons where thousands languish for years without trial

admin Jul 1, 2019

For nearly two years, Chris Chom and 61 other inmates shared a filthy cell in the Kaduna State Central Prisons.
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Poor power supply, faulty elevators frustrate staff of information ministry

'Kunle ADEBAJO May 17, 2019

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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Blood thirsty demons of Zamfara (III): Displaced and abandoned, the story of 30,000 Zamfarans

admin Apr 11, 2019

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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INVESTIGATION: Has Enugu State unlocked the model for genuine community development in Nigeria?

admin Feb 10, 2019

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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