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Fact Check: Is Aisha Binani elected as the first female Governor in Nigeria?

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Fact Check: Is Aisha Binani Elected as the First Female Governor in Nigeria? Claim: Social Media and other news outlets were awash with claims that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial candidate in Adamawa State, Senator Aisha Dahiru Ahmed Binani has made history by being the first elected female Governor in Nigeria by polling 409,909 […]

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WSCIJ visits AFYMP, advises sustainability, inclusion in project implementation

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A delegation from the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) visited the African Foundation for Young Media Professionals (AFYMP), a partner under its Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity and Accountability (CMEDIA), on Thursday 2 March 2023. WSCIJ shared thoughts with the partner on sustaining operations post-funding and how to extend the opportunity to

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How over N230m education project lay waste, equipment missing in Kano

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By Rabiu Musa Reconstruction of the Dangote female hostel which was gutted by fire in February 2019 at Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, has stopped and almost abandoned. The hostel, which houses 60 rooms, 2 common rooms, with 496 female undergraduate students, was destroyed by fire as a result of an electrical spark,

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How despite over N7.6m budget, Kogi Fire Agency lacks capacity to handle emergencies

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By Bello Oyiza Rosemary  In the last 3 years, the Kogi state has witnessed many fire incidents that have claimed lives and destroyed properties worth millions and billions of naira. On the 23rd of September 2020, a fully loaded petrol tanker fire accident claimed not fewer than 20 lives with so many people injured at

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How Kano awarded contracts worth over N1bn to inactive companies

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Lukman Abdulmalik In 2020, in a report obtained from the ministry of finance and economic development, Kano state, it was recorded the state government awarded over one billion Naira to 224 contracting companies to execute different projects in the state. However, this investigation will focus on 6 selected contracting companies, who received a total amount

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In God’s Vineyard: Chilling, Dehumanising working conditions of Catechists in Abuja Catholic Archdiocese

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By Ameh Ejekwonyilo CATECHISTS serving in parishes of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja have been subjected to some of the harshest, most indecent and dehumanising conditions for workers, whether in a secular or religious setting, National Record investigations reveal. Our findings in the last four months of diligent inquiry unveiled an appallingly excruciating condition under

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Book Famine: How policies in Nigeria limit access of blind persons to books

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In Nigeria, existing copyright regulations prevent the adaptation of books into readable versions for the visually impaired. As a result, those who are visually impaired and others who live with print impairments have restricted access to books, resulting in a scenario coined “Book Famine.” Omolola Afolabi captures their experiences… Going through law school in Nigeria

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Heavy trucks on Gembu road as FG commences construction after WikkiTimes’ story

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Barely five months after WikkiTimes published an investigation exposing conspiracy and corruption between the federal and Taraba State governments regarding the construction of Bali-Serti-Gembu road, contractors have mobilised to the site. Alhaji Awwal Labaran, Village Head of Yelwan Gembu told WikkiTimes that construction commenced 10 days ago. “The construction is going on. It started from

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INVESTIGATION: ‘We are not accommodated here’ – PWDs in South-East tell their tales of abuses

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By Alfred Ajayi * Note: some of the names in the story (especially those of some victims) are not real.  “Many people from the eastern part of Nigeria and in fact Africans, believe that persons with disabilities suffer their fate as a curse by the gods or sins of their ancestors. They are part of

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Fishing community groans over company’s indiscriminate discharge of waste, chemical inside Benue River

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By Peter Iorter, Ater Terhemen The discharge of waste by a Chinese-controlled company, BioTech Cassava Processing Company, into the Benue River in Angbaaye Community, Benue State, has caused a slew of problems for residents of the host community while depriving fishermen and farmers of their only source of livelihood. Terfa Tsavbee, who’s in his early

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CSO asks EFCC, ICPC to probe Kano nomadic school projects

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A civil society organisation based in Bauchi State, Alheri Community Development and Support Initiative (Alheri-CDSI), has appealed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practice and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the alleged non-execution of nomadic school projects in the three senatorial zones of Kano State. The group’s

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Amid weak governmental systems, Bauchi villagers struggle with overwhelming flood disasters

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Flood disasters continue to ravage many parts of Bauchi State, mostly with debilitating effects. The government’s response to these disasters has mostly been reactionary; there is a visible lack of coordinated institutional structures with the capacity to respond to flood emergencies. This report by BELOVED JOHN documented that the state now has “floods refugees” forced

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Despite multi-million-naira releases for PHC renovation, primary health care still in shambles, projects remain unexecuted, uncompleted in Plateau State

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By Ekemini Simon Stepping a foot into the vicinity of Gumshir Ward primary healthcare centre (PHC), Dengi Constituency, Kanam local government area (LGA) gives a glimpse of the rot enveloping the entire healthcare centre. The cracks on the walls of the clinic, its broken windows, tables, chairs and doors are obvious signs of the poor

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CSO asks construction companies to come clean, kicks legal suit against WikkiTimes

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Alheri Community Development and Support Initiative (Alheri-CDSI), a civil society organization based in Bauchi has demanded a group of three construction companies – S.A.T Engineering Service, Insulum Nigeria Ltd and Haitel Nigeria Ltd – to clearly explain their roles in the reported failed Nomadic Education Commission’s school construction projects in three senatorial zones of Kano

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Recruited to suffer: Over 12 months unpaid salary, arrears, frustrate NBAIS workers

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The National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) in December 2019, carried out a massive staff recruitment exercise based on replacement which actualised the employment of about 1,000 employees.  However, WikkiTimes’ Hafsah Muhammed Ibrahim reports that despite observing protocols that come with the job appointment-including documentation, IPPIS registration, letter of assumption of duty, and

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Over N175 million water project mysteriously disappeared in Bauchi North as residents trek kilometres to get water, battle diseases

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The Federal Ministry of Water Resources, with funding from the COVID-19 Intervention Fund, claimed to have executed a multi-million naira solar-powered water boreholes across six local government areas in Bauchi north. However, WikkiTimes’ investigation can authoritatively reveal that residents in the affected LGAs still trek long distances to source water for domestic use from unclean

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In the nation’s capital, how medical health facilities are complying with the Nigerian abortion law

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It was shortly before noon on Friday, September 2, 2016. As an unrelenting downpour fell on D-Line, an urban residential area of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Joy (original name withheld) sought shelter in a nearby church while her boyfriend paid the cab driver. Then they entered a nondescript, unfinished one-storey building. Joy

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