Special Report

Sitting on a bench in front of her zinc shop, the expression on the face of Ojo Elizabeth was that of despondency as the thought of how to raise money to buy the next meal for her children, overwhelms her.
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IN the past five months, students have been at home due to the shutdown of public and private schools through a directive of the federal government to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. To prepare for the conduct of examinations for…
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Smallholder women farmers' contributions to food security in Nasarawa State is no doubt being threatened by inadequate information and access to critical farm inputs despite government efforts towards revamping the agricultural sector.
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WITH less than 24 hours to the 2020 Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, national elections scheduled to take place between July 29 and 30, The ICIR examines the likely blindspots that may compromise the transparency of the elections. On July…
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By Aderemi OJEKUNLE THE Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), an agency of the federal government, has spent N5,600 per unit of hand sanitiser (500ml) in a procurement deal worth ₦5.6 million. This is one of the many cases of inflated…
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ADAMU AMADU RUFA’I reports that women farmers in Jigawa State are facing hard times as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and destruction of their farms by herdsmen thus limiting their ability to contribute to food security in the country.…
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As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages Nigeria and the rest of the world, the effect on food security may have to be properly addressed by all the three tiers of government to reduce the hardship associated with food scarcity.
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Smallholder farmers in Nigeria, majority of who are women, produce the bulk of the food that the nation feeds on. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on their business just as its effects are felt in other sectors of the…
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By Vincent A. YUSUF MRS Jumai Yohana, 52, stood in front of the camera in the middle of her melon farm at Ikposoge village in Obi LGA of Nasarawa state as she responded to this reporter’s questions in Hausa. “My dream from…
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The application of western and Islamic laws concurrently in Bauchi State has given room for suspected rapists and paedophiles to evade justice, aided by a seemingly overzealous governmental agency which the perpetrators always run to for…
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