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Over N175 million water project mysteriously disappeared in Bauchi North as residents trek kilometres to get water, battle diseases

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The Federal Ministry of Water Resources, with funding from the COVID-19 Intervention Fund, claimed to have executed a multi-million naira solar-powered water boreholes across six local government areas in Bauchi north. However, WikkiTimes’ investigation can authoritatively reveal that residents in the affected LGAs still trek long distances to source water for domestic use from unclean […]

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In the nation’s capital, how medical health facilities are complying with the Nigerian abortion law

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It was shortly before noon on Friday, September 2, 2016. As an unrelenting downpour fell on D-Line, an urban residential area of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Joy (original name withheld) sought shelter in a nearby church while her boyfriend paid the cab driver. Then they entered a nondescript, unfinished one-storey building. Joy

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Inside Benue community where blackflies are wreaking havoc

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“Sati-Ikov,” a community that had been neglected for decades, leaving the inhabitants to cope with a parasitic tropical disease that has multiple effects, including visual impairment and blindness, as well as intense itching, rashes, or nodules under the skin. This investigation can reveal that 3 out of 5 people in the community are affected. In

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INVESTIGATION: How Dangote Companies violate mining laws, polluting, endangering lives and environment in Benue communities – part 2

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In this concluding part of our report of the ongoing pollution by Dangote Coal Mines Limited’s operations in Okpokwu LGA of Benue State, Iduh L. Onah, Amos Aar and Vera E. Abah expose the serial violations of the provisions of the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act, Environmental Impact Assessment Act, The Nigerian Minerals and Mining

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How lack of interpreters affects healthcare delivery for PWDs despite huge budgetary allocations in Kano

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The dearth of sign language interpreters across health facilities in Kano is one that has limited quality healthcare service delivery for hearing-impaired People with Disabilities (PWDs). Stephen Enoch investigates the lack of these interpreters amidst the government’s huge budgetary allocation. The Kano state government’s increased investment in healthcare over the last five years has seen

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After WikkiTimes’ undercover report, Bauchi sets up committee, vows to punish health workers diverting government’s drugs

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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

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SPECIAL REPORT: How insurgency pushed over 3000 Borno indigenes into IDP camp in Edo

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By Kabir Abdulsalam “August 8, 2012 was dark day in our lives, a day that has remained memorable for bad reasons. Gunshots and bombs were the familiar sounds in the town. And it sounded like regular music because people were already used to the chaos. “Our school, Gwoza Secondary School, was close to Zenith bank

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Fathered by Terrorist, nurtured by Military: Inside story of 7-month-old Maiduguri baby

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By Abdulsalam Mahmud, PRNigeria He sat calmly on his mother’s lap, fiddling with three of his tiny fingers. One can say that he is as fit as fiddle, judging from his tender skin, and very healthy look. Known as Moammadu, the seven-month-old is unaware of the ‘enclosed’ world his mother is living in, as a

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Katanga dam, another abandoned government project threatening livelihood in Nasarawa

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By Mustapha Usman In 2012, the FG awarded a project at the contract sum of N184 million to Justines T.W. Integrated Services Limited for the construction of an earth dam in Katanga town of Nasarawa state to benefit the entire community’s agricultural system and make their lives better. Ten years after, the project is yet

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INVESTIGATION: How Dangote Companies violate mining laws, polluting, endangering lives and environment in Benue Communities – Part 1

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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

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Investigation: In Nigeria’s South-East, retirees are suffering over unpaid gratuity, inconsistent pension

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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

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How Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Border Agency, paid millions for unexecuted, uncompleted health projects in Jigawa

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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

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Was Osinbajo's relations involved in money laundering?

Fact-Check (1): Did London Police Arrest Osinbajo’s Relations, Nigerian Student over Money Laundering?

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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

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Locals’ hope dashed as FG fails to deliver constituency roads in Dass, Bauchi after wasting billions

Locals’ hope dashed as FG fails to deliver constituency roads in Dass, Bauchi after wasting billions

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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,

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Investigation- How House of Representative member, agency abandoned communities, siphoned project funds in Benue State

Investigation: How House of Representative member, agency abandoned communities, siphoned project funds in Benue State

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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

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How Aminu Kano hospital, Border Agency paid millions of naira for unexecuted, uncompleted healthcare projects in Jigawa

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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

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