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  The Federal Government boasts regularly that it feeds primary school pupils with 594 cattle, 138,000 chickens, 6.8 million eggs and 83 metric tons of fish on weekly basis. It is confident that pupils get a balanced diet. In this report,…
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The second part of this investigation by Olugbenga Adanikin concludes the report on how the state ministries of environment accused FG of excluding it from the GGW project and how the exclusion contributes to the project failure. The report…
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In this investigative piece, OLUGBENGA ADANIKIN writes on the impact of climate change in 11 northern states in Nigeria where desert encroachment is threatening the survival of rural communities on daily basis. The report also details how…
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In this concluding part of last Saturday’s report on failed 2016 constituency projects in Ekiti State, INNOCENT DURU sought the comments of the contractors, lawmakers, contracting government agency and experts on why the borehole projects…
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The ICIR investigations show that hundreds of millions of naira released for HIV campaigns, counselling and testing services may have ended in private pockets of contractors and government officials, as companies were specifically…
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By  Terkula Igidi   A PLATE and spoon in hand, five-year-old Lember Iorhemen stood by  the door of the next class, salivating over a plate of palm oil-garnished spaghetti in front of the pupils of Primary 2 at NKST Primary School, Akile,…
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In this concluding part of the series on the budgeted for, but not funded Enugu State libraries; the searchlight is beamed on Awgu, Amufie and Ibagwa-Aka. Libraries here remain in sorry states due to lack of funding. Many questions remain…
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The Enugu State Library Board between 2016 – 2018, budgeted a total sum of N134,903,152 for the renovation, rehabilitation, reconstruction and procurement purposes for the libraries. But these projects, which have since received various…
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THE state of public libraries in Nigeria is deteriorating daily. From shabby structures, poor funding, ill-motivated staff and outdated books to lack of power, the decay scares a majority of researchers away. REGINA OTOKPA in this report…
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Many rural communities in Ekiti State are at the risk of an outbreak of diarrhoea and other diseases. This is due to an acute shortage of potable water in spite of the multi-million naira constituency borehole projects purportedly…
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