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
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
