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School children in Nigeria\’s Federal Capital stand up against corruption

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Leaves and Worms: The dilemma of Visually Impaired students in Nigeria\’s Federal Capital Territory

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This Leaves and Worms documentary highlights the challenges of visually impaired persons in acquiring formal and inclusive education in Nigeria\’s federal capital territory. xosotin chelseathông tin chuyển nhượngcâu lạc bộ bóng đá arsenalbóng đá atalantabundesligacầu thủ haalandUEFAevertonxosofutebol ao vivofutemaxmulticanaisonbetbóng đá world cupbóng đá inter milantin juventusbenzemala ligaclb leicester cityMUman citymessi lionelsalahnapolineymarpsgronaldoserie atottenhamvalenciaAS ROMALeverkusenac milanmbappenapolinewcastleaston villaliverpoolfa

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Wole Soyinka Centre/Albarka FM holds one-day town hall meeting on community development in Kwara

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Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism in collaboration with Albarka 89.9 FM, Ganmo, Kwara State on Wednesday 10th of May, organised a one-day sensitization program on community development in the state. The participants, drawn from various communities and representatives of the people living with disabilities (PLWDs) in the state were sensitized on the role of

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Access to healthcare in Lagos State, PwDs are largely left behind

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According to Center for Citizen with Disabilities (CCD), Lagos state has more than 2million Persons with Disability(PwDs).  To avoid discrimination and exclusion of PwDs in Lagos state, Lagos State passed the   Lagos State Special People Law 2011 which provides for the right of   PwDs to heath, education, work and employment, freedom of communication

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After Safer-Media Initiative’s report, Benue orders investigation into waste disposal system of pure biotech

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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has commissioned an investigation into the Pure BioTech Company’s disposal method, four months after Safer-Media Initiative reported on it. The Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Benue State Governor, Terver Akase, in a statement on Sunday says, “Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has directed the Commissioners for Water

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Rice processors, farmers groan as smuggled foreign rice returns to Northern markets

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Different brands of foreign rice, especially from Thailand and India are flooding into some markets in Kano, Jigawa, and Katsina States in Northern Nigeria. The worrisome development, according to agricultural experts and some local rice dealers, has greatly affected the local production of the staple food commodity. This is just as persons who engage in

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Revealed: How illicit rice importation is threatening FG’s agricultural sector interventions

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In a deliberate effort to boost local rice production and increase its market value, President Muhammadu Buhari had in August 2019 directed the closure of land borders and equally banned the importation of foreign rice. Thus, imports into Nigeria are to come through seaports, where customs duties can be imposed more easily than at land

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NESREA shuts down pure BioTech company in Benue State

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The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) says it has sealed the premises of Pure Biotech Company, a cassava processing plant located in Benue State. The Benue State Coordinator of NESREA, Daniel Ornzaa, disclosed this in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, on Monday. According to the NESREA State Coordinator, “the facility was shut

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Leaves and Worms: The dilemma of Visually Impaired students in Nigeria\’s Federal Capital Territory

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This Leaves and Worms documentary highlights the challenges of visually impaired persons in acquiring formal and inclusive education in Nigeria\’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. xosotin chelseathông tin chuyển nhượngcâu lạc bộ bóng đá arsenalbóng đá atalantabundesligacầu thủ haalandUEFAevertonxosofutebol ao vivofutemaxmulticanaisonbetbóng đá world cupbóng đá inter milantin juventusbenzemala ligaclb leicester cityMUman citymessi lionelsalahnapolineymarpsgronaldoserie atottenhamvalenciaAS ROMALeverkusenac milanmbappenapolinewcastleaston

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Investigation: Despite award, access to healthcare remains a challenge in Enugu communities

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After Enugu State was adjudged the second highest performing state in primary healthcare service delivery in Nigeria between 2019 and 2021 by ONE Campaign, an international organization, Arinze Chijioke travelled to communities across the three senatorial zones in the state to investigate the state of primary healthcare.  His findings, which seem to question the criteria

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Frustration, deceits, relationship stories of PWDs

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The National Assembly 2013 estimated that there were over 20 million people with disabilities (PwD) in Nigeria. Studies have also shown that PWDs in Nigeria face social exclusion within their communities with a discouraging public attitudes and cultural beliefs. To address some of these challenges is the presidential assent of the Discrimination against Persons with

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Relational difficulties among PWDs: discrimination, stigmatisation as a burden

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The need for intimate relationships under any clime cannot be overemphasised as the natural demand for love, warmth, closeness, companionship, social validation, and acceptance underscores the essence of life and existence. All humans seek intimate relationships for self-esteem, respect, social approval, recognition and acceptance, social status, love, sex, safety as well as physical and psychological

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The thing inside your belly: a woman’s 4-year ‘pregnancy’ exposes a crime ring in Eastern Nigeria

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The thing inside your belly, which you have carried for four years, is not a baby. All some women need to know they are pregnant are the physical tip-offs: a bulging belly, vomiting, tiredness, bloating and the other symptoms 43-year-old Rose has experienced for four years. When I first called her in October, and she

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SPECIAL REPORT: In Ekiti, PWDs pass employment exams, but government will not give them jobs

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In 2020, the Ekiti State Government introduced the ‘Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities (Prohibition) Law’. A year later, the Federal Government of Nigeria made it compulsory for government agencies and ministries to allot 5 percent of their employments to PWDs. These laws don’t matter much in Ekiti, writes DANIEL OJUKWU. By noon of September 22,

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INVESTIGATION: Nigeria-Cameroon border village where civilians were kidnapped, killed without trace

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Investigative journalist Gabriel Ogunjobi spent some days on the fringes of Nigeria with Cameroon, in Taraba State. He writes about how a foreign incursion leading to deaths and kidnap of people totalling 30 is still greeted with ghost silence, and the consequences of the border fragility on Nigeria’s northern state. “No one leaves home unless

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SPECIAL REPORT: Tears have not dried up in Kogi, Bayelsa, but Nigeria is moving on from its floods

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This year, Nigeria suffered its most devastating floods in a decade. And despite projections dating back to May and a post-disaster assessment need made after the 2012 floods, the government was unable to buffer the effects. Excessive rainfall in short bursts, Cameroon’s Lagdo dam, climate change, and human anthropogenic activities have all been identified as

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REPORTER\’S DIARY: Kano community where humans, cattle drinks from the same lake

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In Kanwa community, Warawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State, access to clean, potable drinking water is a luxury residents can barely afford. Access to any kind of water comes at the cost of sharing it with livestock, writes Daniel Ojukwu who recently spent time in the state. The picture above is of a

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