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REPORTER’S DIARY: Living With A ‘Mad’ Cell Mate, Set Up By Warders, Abducted By The Police (3)

admin Oct 23, 2019

In the third and final part of a three – part undercover investigative series, FISAYO SOYOMBO documents the soft side of his time in police cell and prison, and how prison, police and court officials conspired to abduct him after…
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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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UNDERCOVER: Bribery, Bail For Sale… Lagos Police Station Where Innocent Civilians Are Jailed And…

admin Oct 14, 2019

Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of…
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Investigation: Corruption ruins FG’s N7bn Unity Schools’ security project— Part 1

admin Jun 27, 2019

In November 2018, the Immediate past Education Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu, disclosed that the federal government reserved over N7bn between 2017 and 2018, to provide basic security facilities in 104 unity schools across the country.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Benue, Plateau villagers yearn to return home amidst fear of unending displacement

Chikezie OMEJE May 16, 2019

One year after the federal government pledged to rebuild communities and resettle locals displaced by herdsmen, a single house has not been built anywhere in Benue and Plateau states. Now, the displaced persons live in fear that they may…
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Blood-thirsty demons of Zamfara: Relentless bandits, helpless policemen and soldiers part (IV)

admin May 1, 2019

Zamfara State has been a hotbed of killings and kidnappings. The media is awash with reportage of these incidents, daily reeling off figures of casualties. These lives are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have been gruesomely…
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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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Blood-thirsty demons Of Zamfara (II): Killing for fun, kidnapping for ransom

admin Apr 8, 2019

A COMMON thread of monumental loss runs through the stories of every emirate visited by the brutal bandits. They are the footprints left behind in these communities to say ‘we were once here’. These pains and losses, most often, change the…
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Blood-thirsty demons of Zamfara (I): The 77-year-old who buried his children in one day — and other…

admin Apr 6, 2019

SEVENTY-SEVEN-year-old Mallam Risqua Mohammed buried his two sons on the same day. It was a hot afternoon of January 26, 2019. The graves of the two brothers were still fresh, just as the dampness caused by their blood on the brown soil of…
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INVESTIGATION: How soldiers fighting Boko Haram beg for food and sleep in classrooms

admin Sep 21, 2018

By Femi Owolabi GANDOKI, a corporal with the special force unit of the Nigerian army, walks out of a sport betting shop, scans through the ticket in his hands, then nods as his face widens into a smile. The corporal and many other soldiers…
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