Reports

By Amos Aar MARK Tersoo, a 38-year-old movie actor and producer, who lives with his wife, one biological child and four adopted children in a one-bedroom apartment in Gboko, has accused operatives of the Gboko Command of Benue State Livestock Guard of unlawfully detaining, torturing to near death and extorting money from him when they […]

By Usman Babaji In what looks like collaborative deceit and corruption, both the Federal Government and Taraba state have comfortably wasted over N36.3 Billion but failed to deliver the 230km Gembu road in Taraba years after it was awarded to different contractors. Not only did the governments fail to deliver the road, but officials at

By Olanrewaju Oyedeji In 2019, the Ondo state government awarded a sum of N202,719,349 (Two Hundred and two million, Seven hundred and Nineteen Thousand Naira) for the renovation of Ondo State Radiovision Corporation, located at Orita Obele, Akure. The project description reads; Complete Reroofing of the Complex, New Doors, New Aluminium Windows, Floor tiling, Ceiling,

By Olanrewaju Oyedeji A Dataphyte review of Osun State’s 2022 budget has shown the state plans to spend N995 million on brand new vehicles for the governor’s office. Gboyega Oyetola-led government had spent N536.942 million (between January and June 2021) for the purchase of brand new cars for governor’s office in 2021. Although N629 million

By Olanrewaju Oyedeji Dataphyte review of the Oyo State Open Contracting portal has shown that secondary school notebook contracts awarded up to N998 million between August 2019 and December 2020 have been subject to contract inflation, fraudulent contract bidding and contract ambiguity. The contract, awarded in three batches, is to supply customised notebooks for secondary

By Olanrewaju Oyedeji Three months after Dataphyte’s investigation exposing how Teachers’ Quarters projects in Ebonyi were abandoned, the Ebonyi state government has completed one of the projects. State of the Teachers’ Quarters before Dataphyte’s Report (One year, two months after N20.108 million release for the project) Dataphyte had earlier reported that work recommenced on Uwana

By Olanrewaju Oyedeji The Kwara state government has withheld contract information required by law to be disclosed regarding a N476.3 million contract it awarded for the installation of “barbed wires on fence”. Dataphyte analysts observed gross irregularities pertaining to this contract on the Open Contracting Portal of the state. First, the Kwara State Government failed

By Olanrewaju Oyedeji A Dataphyte review of the Osun state open Contracting portal has shown that the state’s Road Maintenance Agency, charged with road repairs and maintenance in the state, spent more money on purchase of vehicles for political appointees and others than the money spent on actual road maintenance. Between 2019 and 2021, Dataphyte’s

By Ade Olu Human trafficking, the world’s third largest crime industry, is said to be assuming a disturbing dimension in the South-East region of Nigeria. What factors are responsible for this development? What are the manifestations of the crime and what efforts are being made by state and non-state actors to arrest the ugly trend?

By Tola Owoyele The moment the doors leading to Courtroom 1 of the high court in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State, were thrown open, lawyers and observers, most of whom were plaintiffs, defendants and interested parties in the 10 cases slated for hearing on Tuesday, trooped in. Within five minutes, all the seats in the room

BY MUHAMMAD MAINA ALI n 2019, the government of Borno State spent N150 million to purchase rams for the celebration of Sallah (Eid Al Adha), the state’s auditor general’s report of 2020 has revealed. An investigation by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that not only did the Boko Haram-ravaged state spend such an amount on the purchase

By Dirisu Yakubu & Fortune Eromosele — Abuja A report by the Gender Strategy Advancement International, GSAI, has disclosed that women political participation in Nigeria falls below the world and African continental  standards. According to the report, the national average of women’s political participation in Nigeria remain at 6.7 percent in elective and appointive positions,

By Ishaq Dan-imam As elsewhere, the painstaking efforts, and attendant depression young Nigerians living with disabilities face in their bid to acquire the ‘costly’ formal education is advertently part of the trauma of living with disabilities in Kogi State and beyond. Most of us have had a deprived childhood as most of our parents, relatives

In 2020, the Kwara State Government, launched the Kwara Health Insurance Scheme (KHIS) to make access to basic healthcare by Kwara indigents seamless. The program however hasn’t been entirely flawless. In this report, Omolola Afolabi unravels some of the inadequacies bedeviling the scheme in the state. For Sanni Amuda, a 46-year-old artisan in Awodi Gambari,

By Arinze Chijioke There has been a recent upsurge of turnout by intending voters in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Southeast, a situation many view as encouraging in a region that has been defined by voter apathy since 1999. However, as the crowds of intending voters

By Emmanuel Obe On June 2, 2016, Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, unveiled a plaque and planted a tree at Tenalo Creek, Bodo City in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State to kick off the commencement of the implementation of the Ogoni Cleanup project. The project was recommended by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for

By Dave Okogadie On assuming office in 2007 as Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan flagged off the dualization of the Ughelli/Asaba road. The jubilation that greeted the government decision expressed the yearning of the people, who had been made to go through excruciating pains plying the road which had been left to decay over

By Sunday Dada A 19-year-old girl and her family in Port Harcourt are in a dilemma over how to handle her recently discovered weeks-old pregnancy. The girl (whose identity is being protected) is a 200-level student at the University of Port Harcourt. She got pregnant for a young man in her area. She has been

Grace Egila Lokoja – According to the United Nations, the commitment to realizing the rights of persons with disabilities is not only a matter of justice; it is also an investment in a common future. The world report on disability, published in 2011 says about 25 million Nigerians have at least one form of disability

Isiyaku Ahmed A survey finding by the Safer-Media initiative (SMI) says 69.4% of its respondents are unsatisfied with media coverage of local issues in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to the SMI, the survey was conducted in a bid to increase advocacy for the representation of marginalized voices in the media and improve reporting