Reports

By Amos Aar BARELY two weeks after National Record published Part 1 of its investigative report on the poor condition of secondary schools in Benue State, the State Teaching Service Board (TSB) has advertised for the recruitment of 1,500 teachers for public secondary schools across the state. Parts 2 and 3, as well as photo […]

In 2011, Lanle Travel & Tour, a private company, milked millions of naira from some intended pilgrims in Niger State, with the promise of airlifting them to the Holy Land, Saudi Arabia. For unclear reasons, they were not airlifted after spending weeks in Shiroro Hotel and Hajj Camp in Minna, the capital of Niger State.

Since 2011, hundreds of thousands of people, including women and children, have been displaced as a result of sustained conflict between herders and farmers in various parts of Benue State, with the most affected being in rural, farming communities. In this account of the tragic and existential struggles in camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

BELOW are a few handpicked pictures taken by our reporters while investigating the condition of government-owned secondary schools, and other secondary schools under government grant-aid in Benue State. All the pictures were taken in June 2022.      

By Iduh Onah, Amos Aar & Denen Achussah Read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Extortion of Schools by Education Officers A vice said to have become a huge moral impediment in the administration of secondary schools in Benue State is the allegation of extortion of principals by officials of the Ministry of Education

By Emmanuel Mayah rejected consortium offered $2.25 billion higher than preferred bidder the real reason ExxonMobil-Seplat deal is blockaded In the Nigerian oil industry, cases of elephants passing through the eye of the needle are hardly uncommon. Everyday transactions are riddled with paradox. The insider details would make the Brazil’s “Car Wash” looks like a

Story by Steven PEMBI As much as most parts of Borno State connected to the Chad Basin are concerned and boast of some elements of fishing and commercialization linked to the fish trade, no location comes close to Baga. Doron Baga, particularly, is notorious for its history as a productive, rich fishing ground which connects

Six briefcase companies were used by Nomadic Education Commission to divert N290 million. Two of the companies belong to the same individuals; WikkiTimes investigation revealed that the last set of schools either constructed or established in Kano State by the National Commission for Nomadic Education was in 2016, two years even before the current projects

Although Kwara state government has embarked on the revitalization of its Primary Health Care system, an unhealthy pattern that may scuttle the intended benefits has been unraveled. A fact-finding visit to rural communities in Asa and Moro local government areas (LGAs) by Solacebase correspondent , JUSTINA ASISHANA revealed a disregard for WASH infrastructure in the

After WikkiTimes’ investigative story exposing collaborative deceit and corruption between the federal government and Taraba State on the Bali-Serti-Gembu road, the Federal Government has taken over the project from the state, pledging to commence full reconstruction of the road. This was part of the outcome of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) weekly meeting held on

Story by Pembi Steven With the dawn of insurgency in northern Nigeria, many towns struggling to survive years of government abandonment went up in flames and haven’t rebounded almost a decade after. One of them is Lassa, the town popular for being the place where Lassa fever was first discovered in 1969. Lassa is important

By Usman Ahmed and Kaigama Mustapha The joint Maiduguri-Bama-Banki stakeholders have expressed dissatisfaction on how Spectrum Engineering Company abandoned the reconstruction work on the area’s major link road in the past seven months. They lamented that the Maiduguri-Bama- Banki-road reconstruction that started on good speed is now stopped at Konduga Local government area describing the

By Emmanuel Mayah, Kayode Adegboyega, Doris Chizoba and Ginika Nnabue Fantastic failures of due diligence, particularly the critically-important Know-Your-Customer (KYC) in four commercial banks, have produced startling knock-on effects, culminating in a N30 billion investment scam in Nigeria’s beleaguered economy. The failures recorded simultaneously in four banks – namely Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Zenith, Stanbic and

Two months after WikkiTimes’ investigative story that unearthed collaborative corruption between Taraba State and the Federal Government, the state’s ministry of works writes WikkiTimes but declined to furnish the medium with details about the scandals, arguing that the Freedom of Information Act is not domesticated in the state. In an investigative story published on July

Read Part 1 here. By Iduh Onah, Amos Aar & Denen Achussah In this part of the report, authorities of secondary schools decry the regime of levies and the oppressive or arbitrary system of collection of the levies, the extortion by education officials among others; but the Benue State Teaching Service Board (TSB) vehemently defended