Reports

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

By Elijah Akoji Seven years after the Jigawa State government made a promise to provide ‘One Ward, One Health Centre’ across the 287 wards in the state, residents still decry poor access to quality health care service and have to travel long distances to seek health care. Relying on the state’s financials, and on-the-ground reporting

It’s getting to one year now since the Federal Government of Nigeria promised to reconstruct the Eleme Junction/Trailer Park axis of the East-West road to ease traffic on that road and cut down the suffering that commuters, motorists, workers, school children and industrial concerns that ply that road go through. Nothing has happened yet. And

The May sun shone brilliantly over Okwuzi, one of the three Egbema communities on the northern borders of Rivers State with Imo State, but it could not permeate the mood of the people in and around this particular mud house located at the centre of the Umuagburuga village in the town. Inside the poorly illuminated

By Arinze Chijioke In 2021, at least 500 people out of 10,000 confirmed cases of Cholera were reported dead. Currently, twenty-two out of the 27 local government areas in Jigawa is vulnerable to the disease. This is despite the billions of naira the state government said it has invested in the healthcare sector, particularly primary

In several condolence visits and numerous press releases, the Kebbi state government has pledged to fight armed banditry and restore lasting peace to the state. These pledges do not change much for local residents of affected communities. Once in 2021, the state governor, Atiku Bagudu had even pledged to lead a search and rescue mission into the