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Gender-related lopsided employments at federal MDAs, state MDAs and FCT area councils

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Employment distribution in the Nigerian civil service through the recruitment process often involves searching for several candidates for employment, with the major purpose of stimulating the civil service structure of the government. The recruitment process provides the government and its agencies, especially the civil service, with several qualified and potential candidates within which they carry […]

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Nigeria Immigration Service commences 24/7 booklet production, issues passport within a week

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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has commenced 24/7 production of Passport booklets and issuance to applicants within a week after data capturing. Ag DCG Sadat Hassan of NIS The acting Deputy Comptroller-General of Immigration and Head of the Passport and Other Traveling Document Directorate, Sadat Hassan, made the disclosure during an inspection visit by PRNigeria

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After Stallion Times Report, KEDCO workers stage protest over unpaid pensions, poor working conditions

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Electricity workers from the Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) shut down operations at the company on Monday and vowed to keep it closed until their outstanding payments were made. The workers, represented by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), expressed their dissatisfaction with KEDCO’s failure to remit their pension deductions for the past 72

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Okpella: Dangote and BUA Cement factories pollute air, residents suffer health hazards

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Without concern, Dangote and BUA cement factories are destroying the environment and health of residents in Okpella, Edo state. For this reporter, her long trip to Okpella BUA Cement production plant, and Dangote Cement factory was a rude shock filled with mixed feelings. The atmosphere was filled with Silica Dust. This raised the question on how

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Abandoned Omoku zonal hospital: broken promises leave patients, residents in limbo, after years of contracts

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After awarding a contract for the construction of the Omoku Zonal Hospital in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, which was once hailed as the most crucial hospital of an era has languished in neglect for years during the previous administration of the ex-governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike. The Omoku Zonal Referral Hospital, which

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Primary Healthcare Centre in Northwest Nigeria struggles for survival

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As it grapples with dire challenges and dwindling resources, the story of the struggling Burji Health Centre sheds light on the broader issue of healthcare disparities and the urgent need for support and revitalisation in vulnerable communities. The clock struck midnight and Jummai Abdullahi, a 50-year-old woman from Kuyan Ta Inna, found herself wide awake.

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After Stallion Times report, work commences on abandoned 5km roads, as contractors return to site

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Kano State government has ordered some contractors to resume construction work on the abandoned 5km road networks in Bebeji, Gwarzo, Gezawa, Dawakin Kudu, Kabo, and Albasu Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. This is after 16 days of Stallion Times investigation on some abandoned 5km roads in the state. In the report, StallionTimes revealed

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Concerns over utilisation of Kwara’s 1.1 billion ecological funds as Ilorin communities battle flood, erosion

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As communities in Ilorin prepare for the impeding flood as predicted by several government agencies, concerns have arisen regarding the utilisation of the N1.1 billion ecological funds accrued to Kwara State between 2021 and 2023 DARE AKOGUN reports that utilisation of this fund has been shrouded in secrecy.  Like last year, the Nigeria Meteorological Agency

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After Stallion Times report, Kano Governor commits to clear backlog of retirees benefits

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Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf has reiterated his administration’s commitment to clear the backlog of retirees gratuities in the state. He restated his commitment while delivering a speech at Nigeria’s 63 independence celebration on 1 October 2023 held at Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano. It could be recalled that two months ago, Stallion Times

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Investigation: Inside Bichi communities where residents resort to herbs as PHCs can’t provide drugs for patients

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Solacebase in this report uncovered how residents of Hugulawa and Marga in Bichi LGA, two communities that border Katsina states prefer to travel about 11 kilometers on motorcycle to Bichi town where they can eventually buy drugs and receive treatment or resolve to herbs, a practice capable of increasing their health condition, according to medical

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Investigation: How cultural stereotypes hinder women’s struggle for economic survival in some labour sectors

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The issue of discrimination or marginalisation of women in the work environment in Nigeria or elsewhere in the world, has continued to enjoy the prime of place in the arena of human discourse. Scholars, civil society activists, human rights advocates, the media as well as national and multilateral personalities and authorities from antiqued to digital

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For exposing terrorism funding, illegal mining in Niger state, Police threaten WikkiTimes Editor, wife, others

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Yakubu Mohammed, WikkiTimes editor and the author of an investigative report exposing terrorism funding and illegal mining in Niger State, has been on the police watchlist and his wife, colleagues and friends have been the targets of coordinated threat. His investigation unearthed how Chinese-allied miners operating under the licenses of Eso Terra Investment Limited and

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NCPWD threatens to seal off facilities for violating accessibility laws

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Following National Record’s investigative report on the non-implementation of the provisions of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act,  the executive Secretary of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD), James Lalu, has threatened to seal off facilities that do not comply with the Act’s accessibility clauses. National Record on September 20, 2023

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Investigation: In South-East, security forces rip commuters across multiple checkpoints

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In this report, Arinze Chijioke travelled to Imo State from Enugu and back, to investigate how security operatives extort money from commercial drivers across multiple checkpoints and delay travel time for road users Travelling from Garki, one of the major markets in Enugu State where several motor parks are located to Owerri, the Imo State capital, is a 138km

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INVESTIGATION: How Government, MDAs went to sleep after passage of Disability Act

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It was a struggle that took a coalition of organisations of people with disabilities and civil society allies almost two decades before realisation with the National Assembly’s passage in 2018. But the expectation that the signing into law in 2019 of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act by then President Muhammadu Buhari was

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Students loan : Lecturers, students speak out on Tinubu’s initiative

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Academics and Students have described the stringent conditions attached to the Students loan act as barriers towards benefiting from the educational initiative by the federal government. According to them, if not relaxed, the government efforts to make higher education more accessible to the citizens will remain nothing but a mirage or a mere illusion. In

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After Stallion Times report, Governor Yusuf launches Keep Kano Clean Initiative

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Kano State Governor, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf on Saturday flagged off the Keep Kano Clean initiative tagged “Operation Nazafah” at Kofar Kwaru, Emir’s Palace, Kano. This is coming 10 days after a Stallion Times report “Residents in Kano Task Government on Timely Evacuation of Refuse.” In the report, residents and business owners in Kano tasked

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Staff suffer as Kano Electric fails to settle years of benefits

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Thirty-five-year-old Usman Sani was an employee of the Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO), until he succumbed to the cold hands of death, on December 24, 2020, after he was electrocuted while on duty. A Senior Assistant linesman with KEDCO in Katsina State, Sani left behind two wives and six children who are now bearing the

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