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$1bn Ogoni clean-up project: Truths, half-truths and outright lies

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It all started in 2011. The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) launched a study in oil-rich communities in Ogoni, southeast of Rivers State, Nigeria. Several communities had been polluted by oil companies, particularly Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), and the U.N. agency needed to examine the gravity of the problem and proffer solutions. […]

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From contract scams to polluted water: How Hyprep’s $1bn fund failed to provide respite to Ogoni people

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For Geken community in Gokana Local Government Area, one of the four councils that make up Ogoni, access to potable water is a mirage. Except a family buys a bag of sachet water which costs between N250 and N300, they cannot drink potable water. The rivers, ponds, and other water sources have been polluted by

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SPECIAL REPORT: Sorrow and blood; dehumanising tales of ‘phone snatching’ in Kano

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Dubbed the commercial nerve centre of Northern Nigeria, the city of Kano is gradually becoming the headquarters of fear, grief and sorrow to the inhabitants and visitors. It is no longer a news that the  metropolis has for many years been wallowing in a state of quagmire due to rampant heinous activities of phone snatchers

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Access to healthcare in Lagos State, PwDs are largely left behind

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According to Center for Citizen with Disabilities (CCD), Lagos state has more than 2million Persons with Disability(PwDs).  To avoid discrimination and exclusion of PwDs in Lagos state, Lagos State passed the   Lagos State Special People Law 2011 which provides for the right of   PwDs to heath, education, work and employment, freedom of communication

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After Safer-Media Initiative’s report, Benue orders investigation into waste disposal system of pure biotech

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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

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Rice processors, farmers groan as smuggled foreign rice returns to Northern markets

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Different brands of foreign rice, especially from Thailand and India are flooding into some markets in Kano, Jigawa, and Katsina States in Northern Nigeria. The worrisome development, according to agricultural experts and some local rice dealers, has greatly affected the local production of the staple food commodity. This is just as persons who engage in

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Revealed: How illicit rice importation is threatening FG’s agricultural sector interventions

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In a deliberate effort to boost local rice production and increase its market value, President Muhammadu Buhari had in August 2019 directed the closure of land borders and equally banned the importation of foreign rice. Thus, imports into Nigeria are to come through seaports, where customs duties can be imposed more easily than at land

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NESREA shuts down pure BioTech company in Benue State

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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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Investigation: Despite award, access to healthcare remains a challenge in Enugu communities

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After Enugu State was adjudged the second highest performing state in primary healthcare service delivery in Nigeria between 2019 and 2021 by ONE Campaign, an international organization, Arinze Chijioke travelled to communities across the three senatorial zones in the state to investigate the state of primary healthcare.  His findings, which seem to question the criteria

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Frustration, deceits, relationship stories of PWDs

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The National Assembly 2013 estimated that there were over 20 million people with disabilities (PwD) in Nigeria. Studies have also shown that PWDs in Nigeria face social exclusion within their communities with a discouraging public attitudes and cultural beliefs. To address some of these challenges is the presidential assent of the Discrimination against Persons with

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Relational difficulties among PWDs: discrimination, stigmatisation as a burden

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The need for intimate relationships under any clime cannot be overemphasised as the natural demand for love, warmth, closeness, companionship, social validation, and acceptance underscores the essence of life and existence. All humans seek intimate relationships for self-esteem, respect, social approval, recognition and acceptance, social status, love, sex, safety as well as physical and psychological

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The thing inside your belly: a woman’s 4-year ‘pregnancy’ exposes a crime ring in Eastern Nigeria

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The thing inside your belly, which you have carried for four years, is not a baby. All some women need to know they are pregnant are the physical tip-offs: a bulging belly, vomiting, tiredness, bloating and the other symptoms 43-year-old Rose has experienced for four years. When I first called her in October, and she

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SPECIAL REPORT: In Ekiti, PWDs pass employment exams, but government will not give them jobs

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In 2020, the Ekiti State Government introduced the ‘Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities (Prohibition) Law’. A year later, the Federal Government of Nigeria made it compulsory for government agencies and ministries to allot 5 percent of their employments to PWDs. These laws don’t matter much in Ekiti, writes DANIEL OJUKWU. By noon of September 22,

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INVESTIGATION: Nigeria-Cameroon border village where civilians were kidnapped, killed without trace

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Investigative journalist Gabriel Ogunjobi spent some days on the fringes of Nigeria with Cameroon, in Taraba State. He writes about how a foreign incursion leading to deaths and kidnap of people totalling 30 is still greeted with ghost silence, and the consequences of the border fragility on Nigeria’s northern state. “No one leaves home unless

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SPECIAL REPORT: Tears have not dried up in Kogi, Bayelsa, but Nigeria is moving on from its floods

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This year, Nigeria suffered its most devastating floods in a decade. And despite projections dating back to May and a post-disaster assessment need made after the 2012 floods, the government was unable to buffer the effects. Excessive rainfall in short bursts, Cameroon’s Lagdo dam, climate change, and human anthropogenic activities have all been identified as

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REPORTER\’S DIARY: Kano community where humans, cattle drinks from the same lake

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In Kanwa community, Warawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State, access to clean, potable drinking water is a luxury residents can barely afford. Access to any kind of water comes at the cost of sharing it with livestock, writes Daniel Ojukwu who recently spent time in the state. The picture above is of a

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