Leaves and Worms: Fact sheet on school feeding programme in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory.
Watch these interesting facts about the school feeding programme in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria.
Reports
Factcheck: Is AGILE education project aimed at undermining religious and cultural practices in Northern Nigeria?
CLAIM: According to a video circulating on social media, Sheikh Muhammad Bin Uthman, a Kano Islamic scholar, asserts that the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) is targeted at influencing female students in certain states of Nigeria’s Northern to defy religious and cultural norms. FULL-TEXT: In the viral video, Bin Uthman claims that
Factcheck: Are people being kidnapped in highbrow Maitama, Asokoro districts of Abuja as claimed by Senator Ireti?
Claims: While defending her position for prioritising budgetary allocations for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Ireti Kingibe claimed that kidnapping was becoming rampant in highbrow districts of Maitama and Asokoro. Full Text: In the claim which has now been widely reported by online media platforms, Senator Ireti Kingibe, representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),
After WikkiTimes’ story, Bauchi Governor’s wife organises workshop for Tsangaya school teachers
Following WikkiTimes’ investigation that unraveled how Tsangaya school teachers exploit and dehumanise Almajiri pupils in Bauchi, the wife of the state governor, Aisha Bala Abdulkadir, in partnership with the Islamic Center for Peace Building Research and Development, organised a two-day capacity building workshop for Tsangaya and Islamiyya teachers. The investigation documented how Tsangaya teachers in
VIDEO: Nigerians lambast lawmakers over purchase of SUVs and other luxury vehicles
Nigerians have continued to castigate federal lawmakers over their decision to purchase over 300 Special Utility Vehicles, SUVs estimated at about N58billion. In this video by Rahma Oladosu, the anchor of the Economy on the Street programme of the Economic Confidential, Nigerians came hard on the members of the National Assembly for being insensitive on
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After Stallion Times report, Kano begins payment of N6b for retirees gratuities
Kano State Governor Abba Kabir has begun the payment of N6 billion in gratuities and death benefits to 6,000 pensioners in the state. The Governor made this known on Saturday when he inaugurated the payment at a grand ceremony held at the Coronation Hall, Government House in Kano. This is coming three months after a
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Damasak: From despair to hope, the tale of an agric town hit by Boko Haram, striving to get back on its feet
Iliyasu, Habib and Hassana were very brilliant school kids known for their dexterity at memorising mathematical formulas. Their father Mallam Moh (Neptune Prime chose to conceal his identity for security reasons), was a social worker in one of the health centres in Damasak. Knowing the importance of modern education, he left no stone unturned in
After WikkiTimes’ story, Bauchi Gov’s wife organises workshop for Tsangaya school teachers
Following WikkiTimes’ investigation that unraveled how Tsangaya school teachers exploit and dehumanise Almajiri pupils in Bauchi, the wife of the state governor, Aisha Bala Abdulkadir, in partnership with the Islamic Center for Peace Building Research and Development, organised a two-day capacity building workshop for Tsangaya and Islamiyya teachers. The investigation documented how Tsangaya teachers in
VIDEO: Nigerians lambast lawmakers over purchase of SUVs and other luxury vehicles
Nigerians have continued to castigate federal lawmakers over their decision to purchase over 300 Special Utility Vehicles, SUVs estimated at about N58billion. In this video by Rahma Oladosu, the anchor of the Economy on the Street programme of the Economic Confidential, Nigerians came hard on the members of the National Assembly for being insensitive on
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How corrupt practices mar distribution of fertiliser to farmers in North-west Nigeria
In 2018, the Kano State Ministry of Works, Housing, and Transport released N20,179,800 million to Kano Agricultural Supply Company (KASCO) for the provision and supply of three trucks carrying 600 pieces of fertiliser at a cost of N6,105 each in Gabasawa and Garko Local Government Areas. Kano Constituency Project document (2018) Each fertiliser truck cost
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A tale of two cities: The decayed and neglected roads of FCT’s working class settlements
Following the decision of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to award contracts for the resurfacing of existing and well macadamised roads inside the city of Abuja, NATIONAL RECORD took a tour of the condition of road infrastructure in satellite towns of the FCT inhabited mainly by the working class and
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Leaves and Worms: Capacity training on investigative journalism EP 8
AD4TVRadio continued training for investigative journalists in Abuja and its environs under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity and Accountability (The Collaborative Media Project) of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). This multi-level intervention for media independence and government accountability is funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
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How lack of electricity worsens insecurity and healthcare delivery in terror-ravaged Zamfara communities
When electric poles were first erected in Ajiyawa community four years ago, residents thought their years of blackouts were about to end. Night raids are what bandits use as cover to attack the community, and the local clinic was nearly out of service due to a power cut, so the possibility of having electricity supply
Meningitis outbreak: Jigawa residents pay the price for government’s healthcare failure
One morning in December 2022, Dauda Umaru’s two children, Umaru and Habibu, suddenly woke up with fever and severe headache. They couldn’t even turn their necks around. In Dungundun, Umaru’s community in Sule-Tankarkar local government area in Jigawa State, there is no hospital. So, he rushed them to the Danladi Basic Health Clinic, located in
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Fact check report: Brekete Family’s claim about HPV vaccine’s effects on girls, fertility misleading
The claim by the host of Brekete family radio programme, Ahmed Isah aka ‘Ordinary President’, that the Human Papilloma Virus, HPV, vaccine is harmful and targeted at depopulation lacks evidence and is misleading, a PRNigeria fact-check has discovered. The Ordinary President, in a video clip during a live broadcast of his popular Brekete family programme
State of media independence survey report
This state of media independence survey report was compiled by Safer-Media Initiative. The report delved into unsolved cases of murdered journalists in Nigeria.
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VIDEO: We are not the most unfaithful women in the world- Nigerians speak out
Nigerian women have condemned the tendency for the news media to paint the womenfolk in bad light, at the slightest opportunity. The women who spoke to PRNigeria and Economic Confidential teams specifically described as unfair a recycled false report which described Nigerian women as the most unfaithful in the world. The report which has now
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Leaves and Worms: Low schooling deficit among Nigeria’s Capital area original inhabitants.
This Leaves and Worms series reveals the challenges being faced by original inhabitants of Abuja in accessing quality education. This report is produced with support from the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development Inclusivity and Accountability project (CMEDIA) funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
BOSUWA: How avoidable electricity inferno wrecked midnight havoc on Jigawa community
For over a year, residents of Bosuwa town in Maigatari Local Government Area of Jigawa State have continued to bear the brunt of a midnight inferno caused by sudden power surge. Residents told PRNigeria that the tragedy could have been averted if the Kano Electric Distribution Company (KEDCO) listened to their complaints on the
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Leaves and Worms: How do parents impact on private Schools in Nigeria’s Capital Territory?
This Leaves and Worms series explores the impact of parents on the current increase of private schools in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, Abuja. This report is produced with support from the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development Inclusivity and Accountability project (CMEDIA) funded by the
How Kano Ministry breach procurement laws, awards contracts to Lawmaker, non-existent companies
In 2018, the Kano Ministry of Works, Housing, and Transport, currently known as the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, awarded the sum of N3 billion for constituency projects in 44 local government areas to construct primary school classrooms without an office, Islamiyya classrooms, an empowerment program, and the supply of fertilisers to farmers. In the