Tucked some miles away from residential buildings, along a lonely bushy part is the only healthcare centre which serves Bardo, a predominantly farming community in the Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The entrance to the healthcare centre is indicative of what has become of it, a structure that bears a semblance to a […]
UGONNA AGU 17 year old Chinenye Igbo [not real name], a native of Amaruru in Orsu Local Government area of Imo State, who resides with her indigent parents in Owerri city became a victim of trafficking for prostitution in June 2021 when a close kinsman introduced her to a woman who promised to take her
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-how he annexed Tin Can Island Port -how he hosted Tinubu in Paris July -how he purchased diplomatic passport from notorious tax haven By Jude Kwayidagami When he set up his first company in Nigeria during the military era, state capture was the obvious business plan of Lebanese business mogul, Gilbert Ramez Chagoury. He walked
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By Yakubu Mohammed Umar Sanda, the Bauchi State Commissioner of Police has been transferred to Lagos following his alleged involvement in manipulating a murder case into a road traffic offence. According to an insider, the commissioner had been transferred and there is another police boss for Bauchi Command. The name of the new police commissioner
By Yakubu Mohammed Muhammad Damina, a 68-year-old former commissioner of Information, Bauchi State, on the last Sunday of August 2022, knocked down his 67-year-old friend, Adamu Babanta, in the presence of the latter’s daughter, Kadija who watched her blood-stained father lying unconsciously by the walkway as she cries for help — “Baba na ne…” The
By Abiodun Abegunde Large foreign vessels sailing into the Niger Delta to steal crude oil are certainly not the only way Nigeria loses millions of dollars every day in the oil and gas sector. In a brazen violation of the Nigerian Cabotage and Local Content Act, smaller foreign vessels have infiltrated the country’s coastal and
In this investigative report conducted by Gender Strategy Advancement International (GSAI), staff and patients of primary healthcare centres in the FCT decry the poor state of the Primary HealthCare Centres, insufficient skilled and non-skilled personnel, dilapidated structure and lack of equipment and drugs, amongst many other issues. By Nadia Hassan Nigeria accounts for over 34
Grace Egila Stallion Times Media Services has trained 40 Journalists and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on the method and strategies for tracking constituency projects in Kano State. The broad objective was to train journalists and CSOs to work together in tracking constituency projects with a view of writing investigative stories on the implementation of the
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On Monday, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative journalism collaboration with Albarka 89.9 FM, Ganmo, Kwara State organised a one-day media round-table program on “2023 general election: Its Impact on Good Governance and Responsibility of The Media” with participants drawn from media organizations and practitioners across Kwara state. The round-table program funded by the MacArthur
The Safer-Media Initiative says it is imperative and incumbent on the government authorities to investigate and convict the perpetrators and sponsors of attacks on journalists. In a statement on Wednesday in Abuja to mark International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the Executive Director of SMI, Peter Iorter said there is a growing
LAGOS, Wednesday, November 2, 2022: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on Governments at all levels to fulfill their obligations to ensure the safety of journalists by investigating all attacks against media practitioners as well as prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of such attacks. The organization said this would send a strong signal to those
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Renowned scholar and award-winning novelist, Professor Okey Ndibe, says Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, may not be the solution to Nigeria’s problems, even if he wins the 2023 presidential poll. Professor Ndibe stated this Thursday while featuring as the Keynote Speaker at IkengaOnline monthly Town Hall meeting. Ikengaonline is a South-East-focused media
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By Murtala Adewale, Kano PR Nigeria has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes and Other related Commission (EFCC) and members of the Civil Society Organisation CSO, to investigate the abandoned project of N381 million Ado Bayero road in Dorayi Babba area of the Kano metropolis. According to the agency, the feeder road awarded to Stonegate
Grace Egila Stallion Times Media Services has trained no fewer than 40 Journalists and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on how to track constituency projects in Kogi state. The training was part of efforts to enhance accountability on duty bearers in the area of constituency projects at federal and state levels. The 2-day event which ended
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By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja. Media Content Development Expert, Mallam Isiyaku Ahmed, has called on Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the Media to promote Citizens’ engagement in budgeting processes and ensure effective budget monitoring to achieve inclusive growth for states. Ahmed made the call at a two-day training workshop on “Tracking Constituency Projects” Get Involved Dialogue
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Ibrahim Oyewale in Lokoja As part of efforts to curb the growing incidence of abandoned projects in Nigeria, a budget expert, Mr. Henry Omokhaye, has urged the civil society organisations and media to engage in monitoring in order to prevent contractors and others stakeholders from abandonment of constituency projects across the country. Omokhaye was the
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Grace Egila Stallion Times Media Services (STMS) has commenced the implementation of a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kogi State Newspaper Corporation, publishers of the Graphic Newspaper. The Editor-in-Chief, STMS, Isiyaku Ahmed made the disclosure while presenting a position paper titled “how to make Graphic go online” to the Kogi State Commissioner for Information
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative journalism in collaboration with Albarka 89.9 FM, Ganmo, Kwara State on Tuesday organised a one-day sensitization program on Good Governance and Accountability with representatives of communities and groups in Kwara state. The sensitization program funded by the MacArthur Foundation had in attendance, 28 people including representatives of persons with
By Usman Babaji Haruna Mohammed Salisu, the publisher of WikkiTimes, an investigative platform based in Bauchi State, says the government’s nonchalant attitude in prosecuting individuals and entities exposed by the medium could further deepen corruption in the country. The platform since its establishment in 2018 had unearthed a number of scandalous and inhumane conducts by
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In a one day training organized by Africa Foundation For Young Media professionals in Conjunction With Nigeria Grassroot News, experts had warned ethics and professionalism must be inviolable Mobile Journalism is no longer a newbie in the fold. Serious media organizations, whether print based, audio or audio-visual genre, must think about convergence in order to
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