Abia State Government, has announced plans to recruit skilled attendants for the deaf in public hospitals in the state. Gov. Alex Otti announced this while declaring open the State’s first ever Council on Health held Wednesday at the Ochendo International Conference Centre, Umuahia. One of the Keynote Speakers at the November 30, 2023 Ikengaonline monthly […]
Baga, a town on the shores of Lake Chad, has become the focal point for Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s ambitious plans to rejuvenate agricultural activities and foster trans-border trade across Nigeria, Chad, and Niger. Trouble came home to roost on April 16 and 17, 2013, Neptune Prime learnt when Boko Haram engaged the Nigerian military
Following WikkiTimes’ investigation that unraveled how Tsangaya school teachers exploit and dehumanise Almajiri pupils in Bauchi, the wife of the state governor, Aisha Bala Abdulkadir, in partnership with the Islamic Center for Peace Building Research and Development, organised a two-day capacity building workshop for Tsangaya and Islamiyya teachers. The investigation documented how Tsangaya teachers in
Kano State Governor Abba Kabir has begun the payment of N6 billion in gratuities and death benefits to 6,000 pensioners in the state. The Governor made this known on Saturday when he inaugurated the payment at a grand ceremony held at the Coronation Hall, Government House in Kano. This is coming three months after a
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Following WikkiTimes’ investigation that unraveled how Tsangaya school teachers exploit and dehumanise Almajiri pupils in Bauchi, the wife of the state governor, Aisha Bala Abdulkadir, in partnership with the Islamic Center for Peace Building Research and Development, organised a two-day capacity building workshop for Tsangaya and Islamiyya teachers. The investigation documented how Tsangaya teachers in
The Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA) conducted an advocacy visit on Wednesday to the Kano State House of Assembly (KSHoA) Committee on Education. The advocacy visit is a reaction to a Stallion Times Investigative report Kano Special education schools where pupils learn in poor Cconditions. The report which was published days
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Electricity workers from the Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) shut down operations at the company on Monday and vowed to keep it closed until their outstanding payments were made. The workers, represented by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), expressed their dissatisfaction with KEDCO’s failure to remit their pension deductions for the past 72
Kano State government has ordered some contractors to resume construction work on the abandoned 5km road networks in Bebeji, Gwarzo, Gezawa, Dawakin Kudu, Kabo, and Albasu Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. This is after 16 days of Stallion Times investigation on some abandoned 5km roads in the state. In the report, StallionTimes revealed
Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf has reiterated his administration’s commitment to clear the backlog of retirees gratuities in the state. He restated his commitment while delivering a speech at Nigeria’s 63 independence celebration on 1 October 2023 held at Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano. It could be recalled that two months ago, Stallion Times
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Following National Record’s investigative report on the non-implementation of the provisions of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, the executive Secretary of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD), James Lalu, has threatened to seal off facilities that do not comply with the Act’s accessibility clauses. National Record on September 20, 2023
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A newborn baby was among 20 children rescued on Wednesday when the Anambra State government sealed off the premises of Arrows of God orphanage following FIJ’s investigation uncovering how the orphanage had been selling off babies. This development comes one week after ‘Fisayo Soyombo, the founder of FIJ, released an investigation detailing how he paid N2 million
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has commissioned an investigation into the Pure BioTech Company’s disposal method, four months after Safer-Media Initiative reported on it. The Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Benue State Governor, Terver Akase, in a statement on Sunday says, “Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has directed the Commissioners for Water
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) says it has sealed the premises of Pure Biotech Company, a cassava processing plant located in Benue State. The Benue State Coordinator of NESREA, Daniel Ornzaa, disclosed this in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, on Monday. According to the NESREA State Coordinator, “the facility was shut
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Niger Insurance has paid N378,000 insurance proceeds to Muonyililo Gregory, a Lagos-based pharmacist. The insurance firm paid the money on Wednesday, two months and some days after FIJ reported how the company refused to pay him four years after the maturation of his funds. Gregory told FIJ that he had contacted someone he knew worked
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Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) is set to probe and sanction Akindele Omotosho, a lecturer accused of sexually harassing present and former students of the institution. A source in the School of Liberal Studies, where Omotosho teaches in the Mass Communication department, told FIJ that the department was set to strip him of his roles
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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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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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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 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
The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), a subsidiary of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has taken over failed sections of the Bauchi-Gombe road which were hitherto abandoned as exposed in WikkiTimes’ recent investigation. This paper in a detailed investigation unearthed how millions of naira were wasted on emergency repairs and rehabilitation of the
The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN), Gombe State chapter, says it will engage necessary authorities to prosecute some health workers exposed in WikkiTimes’ recent Investigation. The investigation exposed how health workers in some facilities continue to subvert the system by issuing fake genotype certificates in exchange for financial gratification. The story exposed