Reports

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,

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

-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

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

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

In this report, WikkiTimes’ YAKUBU MOHAMMED revealed that in its desperate move to siphon money, the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing not only failed to execute the work but paid contractors that have nothing to do with road constructions; some of them are oil companies. The federal government has spent about N1bn in repair

WikkiTimes reporter spent several weeks investigating fake genotype certificates to pass medical assessments that can be obtained in Gombe State. This report exposes how hospital laboratories issue fake genotype certificates for a token, sometimes even free. A married couple gave birth to a sickle cell child, this generated confusion as it’s believed that none of

BY USMAN MOHAMMED, FATI MUSA MARTE & ABDULKADIR M. LAWAN Internally displaced persons, IDPs, across the North East have fashioned out a criminal commercial enterprise at the expense of their kids to enrich themselves. They help to ‘make’ or ‘keep’ their kids, aged 0 to 5, malnourished, in order to profit from their condition. An