By Olanrewaju Oyedeji Three months after Dataphyte’s investigation exposing how Teachers’ Quarters projects in Ebonyi were abandoned, the Ebonyi state government has completed one of the projects. State of the Teachers’ Quarters before Dataphyte’s Report (One year, two months after N20.108 million release for the project) Dataphyte had earlier reported that work recommenced on Uwana […]
By Olanrewaju Oyedeji The Osun State University is at the centre of controversies over the supply of customised computers worth N200 million to the varsity. The project which was funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund was to equip the computer centre of the university with 550 “Gracetech All-in-One Desktop Computers”. In a letter dated
By Olanrewaju Oyedeji The Kwara state government has withheld contract information required by law to be disclosed regarding a N476.3 million contract it awarded for the installation of “barbed wires on fence”. Dataphyte analysts observed gross irregularities pertaining to this contract on the Open Contracting Portal of the state. First, the Kwara State Government failed
By Olanrewaju Oyedeji A Dataphyte review of the Osun state open Contracting portal has shown that the state’s Road Maintenance Agency, charged with road repairs and maintenance in the state, spent more money on purchase of vehicles for political appointees and others than the money spent on actual road maintenance. Between 2019 and 2021, Dataphyte’s
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By Ade Olu Human trafficking, the world’s third largest crime industry, is said to be assuming a disturbing dimension in the South-East region of Nigeria. What factors are responsible for this development? What are the manifestations of the crime and what efforts are being made by state and non-state actors to arrest the ugly trend?
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By Tola Owoyele The moment the doors leading to Courtroom 1 of the high court in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State, were thrown open, lawyers and observers, most of whom were plaintiffs, defendants and interested parties in the 10 cases slated for hearing on Tuesday, trooped in. Within five minutes, all the seats in the room
BY MUHAMMAD MAINA ALI n 2019, the government of Borno State spent N150 million to purchase rams for the celebration of Sallah (Eid Al Adha), the state’s auditor general’s report of 2020 has revealed. An investigation by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that not only did the Boko Haram-ravaged state spend such an amount on the purchase
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By Progress Godfrey, Abuja Gender Strategy Advancement International, GSAI, has engaged the media to promote women’s economic inclusion and gender accountability in governance The 2-day collaborative media training which started on Thursday was supported by MacArthur Foundation and partnered by Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. According to a baseline report on Women’s political participation
By Dirisu Yakubu & Fortune Eromosele — Abuja A report by the Gender Strategy Advancement International, GSAI, has disclosed that women political participation in Nigeria falls below the world and African continental standards. According to the report, the national average of women’s political participation in Nigeria remain at 6.7 percent in elective and appointive positions,
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By Ishaq Dan-imam As elsewhere, the painstaking efforts, and attendant depression young Nigerians living with disabilities face in their bid to acquire the ‘costly’ formal education is advertently part of the trauma of living with disabilities in Kogi State and beyond. Most of us have had a deprived childhood as most of our parents, relatives
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In 2020, the Kwara State Government, launched the Kwara Health Insurance Scheme (KHIS) to make access to basic healthcare by Kwara indigents seamless. The program however hasn’t been entirely flawless. In this report, Omolola Afolabi unravels some of the inadequacies bedeviling the scheme in the state. For Sanni Amuda, a 46-year-old artisan in Awodi Gambari,
WikkiTimes, an investigative platform based in Bauchi State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vision FM In Gombe State on accountability journalism and critical reporting. In the course of the partnership, WikkiTimes will also train Vision FM staff on investigative journalism and critical reporting. The partnership which borders on accountability journalism will also
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By Arinze Chijioke There has been a recent upsurge of turnout by intending voters in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Southeast, a situation many view as encouraging in a region that has been defined by voter apathy since 1999. However, as the crowds of intending voters
In 2022, the foundation through funding supports from MacArthur Foundation and Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) launched a media training for early-career media and communications students across several tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This training which will further promote the practice of journalism and expose these young minds to the business aspect of the
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A Bauchi-based multi-media services organization, Xchange Hama Media Services has organized a two-day training workshop for practising and citizen journalists on investigative journalism and development communication. The workshop which was held in Bauchi was supported by Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and had 32 participants drawn from 10 LGAs of the state. The
By Murtala Adewale, Kano The rampant cases of intimidation, harassment, and assault of journalists in the cause of carrying out investigative and other routine reports are fast reaching their height if not worsened in Nigeria, considering the large population of working journalists who report daily to their beat without safety provisions. Speaking on the significance
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By Kehinde Ayanboade The Executive Director, Media Career NG, Mr. Lekan Otufodurin has reeled out the need for journalists to hold strictly to the ethical provision in the course of carrying out their profession. Otufodurin who was a former editor of The Nation Newspaper made this call while training young journalists as a facilitator in
By Kehinde Ayanboade In a bid to develop new media giants in the digital world of multimedia journalism, a Lecturer from the University of Lagos, Dr Suraj Olunifesi has reeled out the importance of data and information management, literacy and manipulation in the sustainable practice of 21st-century journalism. Olunifesi maintains that data, facts and figures
By Sa’adatu MAINA, Damaturu Neptune Network Nigeria Ltd, in conjunction with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), has opened its North-East zonal office in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital for its subsidiary media outlet, Neptune Prime. The zonal office which is located on the first floor, opposite Eco Bank, Maiduguri Road, Damaturu, Yobe
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By Kayode Adegboyega Taiwo Satellite Times online newspaper last week opened a new chapter in corruption reporting in Nigeria by inducting five mid-level private sector practitioners into newsroom freelance reporting. The five – three males and two females – were part of a total of 19 journalists that participated in a 2-day media training workshop
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Albarka FM has organized a one-day sensitization workshop on how to enhance media action for accountability and good governance for Journalists in Kwara state. The one-day sensitization programme was organized in conjunction with Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative journalism and with support from the Macarthur Foundation. The guest lecturer, Dr Sa’udat Sallah AbdulBaqi, a lecturer