A newborn baby was among 20 children rescued on Wednesday when the Anambra State government sealed off the premises of Arrows of God orphanage following FIJ’s investigation uncovering how the orphanage had been selling off babies. This development comes one week after ‘Fisayo Soyombo, the founder of FIJ, released an investigation detailing how he paid N2 million […]
For 19 months, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO studied, trailed, investigated and eventually penetrated a Christian orphanage that had been selling babies under the table. When he first received the tip-off in December 2021, one baby cost N1.5 million. Nineteen months later when he finally bought his, the ‘cost’ had jumped to N2 million, excluding a
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For 19 months, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO studied, trailed, investigated and eventually penetrated a Christian orphanage that had been selling babies under the table. When he first received the tip-off in December 2021, one baby cost N1.5 million. Nineteen months later when he finally bought his, the ‘cost’ had jumped to N2 million, excluding a
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Despite the over 40 billion naira budgets of the Abuja Municipal Area Council over the past four years, residents of the Angwa-Agani community are hard-pressed to access clean and adequate water to meet their demands for water usage. SMI can report that their sole source of water comes from a small hole in the ground
For 19 months, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO studied, trailed, investigated and eventually penetrated a Christian orphanage that had been selling babies under the table. When he first received the tip-off in December 2021, one baby cost N1.5 million. Nineteen months later when he finally bought his, the ‘cost’ had jumped to N2 million, excluding a
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*But Provost debunks claim, says facts are misrepresented Students of A.D. Rufa’i College of Education, Legal and General Studies, Misau, Bauchi State pay multiple fees before they could be registered for class attendance. But the college only offers services that are not commensurate with the long list of payments demanded from the students. In this
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Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage. Without water, there can’t be life. Water is an integral part of human life. Water shortage has affected a lot of residents of Lokoja town in the last 10 months. There are a lot of consequences associated with
In 2021, the Kano State government approved and disbursed the sum of N220,000,00 million to 44 Local Government Areas (LGAs) as contribution funds for school feeding programmes in Kano State under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP). The programme aims to improve the enrollment of primary school children (ages 1-3) and reduce the
Over 1300 pupils drop out of 3 schools as free feeding programme flops in Kano Read More »
Both teachers and pupils in Gombe State, continue to endure difficulties as promised classroom and toilet construction projects remain unfinished, despite the allocation of funds to Cocoon Nigeria Limited by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs). As a result, schools are still lacking sufficient classrooms, forcing
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In 2019 constituency projects, the Kano State Ministry of Works, Housing, and Transport disbursed N12 million to execute projects in Ajingi, Rogo, and Doguwa Local Government Areas (LGAs). The construction of polio shade at Doguwa General Hospital awarded in Doguwa LGA was awarded to A.U.C. General Entrps at a cost of N4,970,682.90. The provision of
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) declared an outbreak of diphtheria on 20 January 2023, the worst in a decade. The outbreak was first notified in Kano and Lagos states on 1 December 2022. In this report, Arinze Chijioke looks at the factors contributing to the outbreak in Kano, the epicentre of the outbreak.
A look into disease breeding grounds in the wake of diphtheria outbreak in Kano Read More »
It all started in 2011. The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) launched a study in oil-rich communities in Ogoni, southeast of Rivers State, Nigeria. Several communities had been polluted by oil companies, particularly Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), and the U.N. agency needed to examine the gravity of the problem and proffer solutions.
$1bn Ogoni clean-up project: Truths, half-truths and outright lies Read More »
For Geken community in Gokana Local Government Area, one of the four councils that make up Ogoni, access to potable water is a mirage. Except a family buys a bag of sachet water which costs between N250 and N300, they cannot drink potable water. The rivers, ponds, and other water sources have been polluted by
Dubbed the commercial nerve centre of Northern Nigeria, the city of Kano is gradually becoming the headquarters of fear, grief and sorrow to the inhabitants and visitors. It is no longer a news that the metropolis has for many years been wallowing in a state of quagmire due to rampant heinous activities of phone snatchers
SPECIAL REPORT: Sorrow and blood; dehumanising tales of ‘phone snatching’ in Kano Read More »
In this interview with National Point, Commander of the local security vigilance group, OSPAC in Rundele, Nyeche Ajuru reveals that Emohua Local Government refused to pay local OSPAC vigilantes monies collected from transport companies to stop bus hijack and kidnap of passengers on the East-West Road Can we know you? My name is Nyeche
Soldiers emptied magazine of bullets on me – Anthill Read More »
According to Center for Citizen with Disabilities (CCD), Lagos state has more than 2million Persons with Disability(PwDs). To avoid discrimination and exclusion of PwDs in Lagos state, Lagos State passed the Lagos State Special People Law 2011 which provides for the right of PwDs to heath, education, work and employment, freedom of communication
Access to healthcare in Lagos State, PwDs are largely left behind Read More »
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has commissioned an investigation into the Pure BioTech Company’s disposal method, four months after Safer-Media Initiative reported on it. The Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Benue State Governor, Terver Akase, in a statement on Sunday says, “Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has directed the Commissioners for Water
E-commerce potential is huge globally and in Nigeria 2023 is expected to see huge growth over the previous years. E-commerce potentials in a metropolitan city like Lagos cannot be ignored given the busy nature of citizens in the city. Customers want to get things; buy the majority of items they want without having to drive
In Lagos, e-commerce fraudsters, crimes are rising? Read More »
Different brands of foreign rice, especially from Thailand and India are flooding into some markets in Kano, Jigawa, and Katsina States in Northern Nigeria. The worrisome development, according to agricultural experts and some local rice dealers, has greatly affected the local production of the staple food commodity. This is just as persons who engage in
Rice processors, farmers groan as smuggled foreign rice returns to Northern markets Read More »
In a deliberate effort to boost local rice production and increase its market value, President Muhammadu Buhari had in August 2019 directed the closure of land borders and equally banned the importation of foreign rice. Thus, imports into Nigeria are to come through seaports, where customs duties can be imposed more easily than at land
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) says it has sealed the premises of Pure Biotech Company, a cassava processing plant located in Benue State. The Benue State Coordinator of NESREA, Daniel Ornzaa, disclosed this in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, on Monday. According to the NESREA State Coordinator, “the facility was shut
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