“Sati-Ikov,” a community that had been neglected for decades, leaving the inhabitants to cope with a parasitic tropical disease that has multiple effects, including visual impairment and blindness, as well as intense itching, rashes, or nodules under the skin. This investigation can reveal that 3 out of 5 people in the community are affected. In […]
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Barely one year after its debut as a business-investigation-based newsroom, BUSINESS LEAKS has been invited by the UK-based financial crime platform Themis to speak at its March 2023 roundtable. Themis, an anti-financial crime specialist firm, carries out research about a range of topics related to financial crime, analyzing both geographical and thematic risks. In an
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In this concluding part of our report of the ongoing pollution by Dangote Coal Mines Limited’s operations in Okpokwu LGA of Benue State, Iduh L. Onah, Amos Aar and Vera E. Abah expose the serial violations of the provisions of the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act, Environmental Impact Assessment Act, The Nigerian Minerals and Mining
The dearth of sign language interpreters across health facilities in Kano is one that has limited quality healthcare service delivery for hearing-impaired People with Disabilities (PWDs). Stephen Enoch investigates the lack of these interpreters amidst the government’s huge budgetary allocation. The Kano state government’s increased investment in healthcare over the last five years has seen
Barely three months after WikkiTime published an undercover investigation exposing how some health workers in Bauchi State diverted drugs from government healthcare centres for personal gains, the state government said it has set up an investigative committee to look into the matter. Dr Rilwan Mohammed, the Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, disclosed this
By Kabir Abdulsalam “August 8, 2012 was dark day in our lives, a day that has remained memorable for bad reasons. Gunshots and bombs were the familiar sounds in the town. And it sounded like regular music because people were already used to the chaos. “Our school, Gwoza Secondary School, was close to Zenith bank
SPECIAL REPORT: How insurgency pushed over 3000 Borno indigenes into IDP camp in Edo Read More »
This Leaves and Worms documentary highlights the challenges of people living with disabilities to accessing quality education in Nigeria’s federal capital.
By Abdulsalam Mahmud, PRNigeria He sat calmly on his mother’s lap, fiddling with three of his tiny fingers. One can say that he is as fit as fiddle, judging from his tender skin, and very healthy look. Known as Moammadu, the seven-month-old is unaware of the ‘enclosed’ world his mother is living in, as a
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By Mustapha Usman In 2012, the FG awarded a project at the contract sum of N184 million to Justines T.W. Integrated Services Limited for the construction of an earth dam in Katanga town of Nasarawa state to benefit the entire community’s agricultural system and make their lives better. Ten years after, the project is yet
Katanga dam, another abandoned government project threatening livelihood in Nasarawa Read More »
In this two-part narrative of a 6-month investigation, National Record uncovers the despair of local inhabitants and residents of some communities in two local government areas of Benue State that are hosts to subsidiaries of Dangote conglomerate. These communities are no longer at ease as the mining activities of the companies have become serious threats
Isiyaku Ahmed On Tuesday, Kano State Governor Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje signed the Kano State Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) amendment bill 2022 into law. The bill was approved at the weekly state executive council meeting held at Government House Kano. Speaking to newsmen after signing the bill, the governor explained that the law would pave
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Arinze Chijioke In this Report, Correspondent, Arinze Chijioke, goes round the South-East states to unravel the true story behind the incessant protests by pensioners in the region. What he comes up with is not just a tale of woes from neglected pensioners; but also dishonesty and insensitivity on the part of government towards pensioners in
THIS investigation by SOLACEBASE correspondent Arinze Chijioke looks at how communities in Jigawa State suffer due to lack of access to healthcare after government agencies awarded contracts, payments made and were not executed, while for those carried out, not in accordance with the specification. The curious case of Bardo PHC Tucked some miles away from
Fact-Check (1): Did London Police Arrest Osinbajo’s Relations, Nigerian Student over Money Laundering? Claim: A post widely circulated on social media claimed that the London Metropolitan Police has found the sum of $8.5m in the residence of a Nigerian student in London and that a daughter of the Vice President of Nigeria Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
It was an exciting moment for Mutawallen Dur when Yakubu Dogara flagged off the Zumbul Bondot Road in 2015 as part of his nominated constituency project. For Mutawalle and many other inhabitants of Wandi, Baraza, Durr, Zumbul, Dott and many other villages in Dass LGA, a sigh of relief has come their way. At least,
A wayward personnel of the Nigerian Army has killed a humanitarian worker in Borno State today. He also shot another soldier to death and injured a pilot, who is reported to be flying a United Nations helicopter. In a statement this evening, the Nigerian Army confirmed the incident. Maj. Samson Nantip Zhakom, one of the
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This is the story of how a contractor, in connivance with a Federal legislator and the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) mismanaged multi-million-naira Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC) project funds to the detriment of the people, particularly pregnant women and infants in the host communities where these projects are expected to greatly improve access to quality
