In the late evening of Friday, September 14, 2024, shortly after the Maghrib prayer, Bashir Muhammad, a 34-year-old father of seven who has been suffering from...
Qudus, a Junior Secondary School (JSS 2) pupil, would sit the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in a year to mark the completion of his nine-year...
Rural Nigerians face mounting challenges in accessing traditional medicine for malaria and typhoid treatment as deforestation worsens medicinal plant scarcity. ABDULWAHEED SOFIULLAHI reports In front of...
In its 2023 supplementary budget and 2024 Appropriation Act, the Kano State government budgeted billions of naira for the purchase of furniture, renovation of the governor’s...
New classified reports and documents from the United Nations Security Council and a company supplying arms and armored vehicles to a section of conflict riddled African...
In this report, MANASSEH MBACHII uncovers how traders in Benue State, Middle-Belt Nigeria are forced to pay taxes and levies yet they get no benefits from the...
Naze and Obibiezena, two communities in Owerri North Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo State, are less than 10 minutes away from the headquarters of the Anambra-Imo, River...
This investigation by PATRICK EGWU is the third part of a year-long investigative series on climate change disinformation and corruption produced as part of the Bertha...
This investigation by PATRICK EGWU is the second part of a year-long investigative series on climate change disinformation and corruption produced as part of the Bertha...
This investigation by PATRICK EGWU is one of a three-part year-long investigative series on climate change disinformation and corruption produced as part of the Bertha Challenge...
MANASSEH MBACHI writes on the plight of residents of some local government areas in Benue State who are left without health services. They face preventable deaths...
In Kaduna’s Millennium City, a housing project of the Kaduna State Government, houses, shopping malls and other business facilities spring up daily but the project is...
In Ibiaku Uruan, a community in Akwa Ibom State, where survival hinges on how much is planted, harvested, and sold in the market, Godwin Umana, a...
Ibrahim Ali, a 65-year-old resident of the Kofar Dundaye area in Sokoto metropolis, is thankful for being alive after falling seriously ill from inhaling the smoke...
Once a beacon of hospitality in Northern Nigeria, Gusau Hotel—originally known as Gusau Motel—stood for over half a century as a testament to the region’s rich...
The clock strikes 12 p.m. at the Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) and Eye clinic of the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan. Patients are seen...
Bandits have attacked several communities in Katsina State, North-West Nigeria, destroying healthcare facilities, kidnapping and killing scores of health workers and residents. In this report, ARINZE CHIJIOKE looks...
Mary Slessor, a missionary who ended the killing of twins in Nigeria also set up a hospital to provide healthcare for people within its reach. However,...
Sprawling in intermittent Labour pains, Iyabo Ganiyu, a middle-aged mother of five who is a resident of the Ariyibi community, did not doubt the fact that...
According to the budget, the Borno State government has invested billions of naira to construct boreholes. But findings by IMRAN RIDWAN show that communities in the...
This investigation by PATRICK EGWU is the third of a year-long three-part investigative series on climate change disinformation and claims by international multinational oil companies –...
This investigation by PATRICK EGWU is the second of a year-long three-part investigative series on climate change disinformation and claims by international multinational oil companies –...
This investigation by PATRICK EGWU is the first of a year-long three-part investigative series on climate change disinformation and claims by international multinational oil companies –...
On a warm Wednesday morning of July, everyone at the Sultan Maccido Institute for Qur’anic and General Studies School, Sokoto, appears busy and engrossed in their...
Before Nigeria’s presidential elections last year, legislator Alhassan Doguwa told raucous supporters what would happen to those who did not vote for his dominant All Progressives...
In this investigation, ARINZE CHIJIOKE looks at how the Ecological Fund Office violated procurement law by diverting a multi-million-naira erosion control project in a community in...
While other children were making their way back from school on a Friday afternoon, Emmanuel Aniede was seen running around the Ikpa Road in Uyo, Akwa...
Tope Olamilekan, a woman in her mid-thirties, left home on a cold morning to open her shop as she has always done for years but got...
The enticing aroma of bean cakes, fondly known as Akara, filled the entrance of the building Afon community regards as the Court. The bean cake vendor,...
For almost ten years and counting, communities in Kwara State have continued to live in darkness with adverse effects on their r lives and businesses as...
Meta, owner of Facebook, is allowing health misinformation and disinformation to run freely on its platform, an investigation has revealed. The company publicly commits to fighting...
In May and June 2024, this reporter embarked on a mission to ascertain the status of some of the 2022 Sokoto State projects at the Shehu...
Benue State in Nigeria’s north-central region has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Nigeria. And this is due to the widespread lack of access...
In the aftermath of a destructive windstorm that swept through communities in Logo, Benue State, Nigeria in May 2024, the once vibrant schoolyards and places of...
It was 1 p.m. The sun cast long shadows across the schoolyard of Government Day Senior Secondary School, Kofar Rini, Sokoto, where seven students, all aged...
On a cold Friday morning in May, every household had rubber drums, metal containers, and clay pots filled with water gathered from rainfall from the previous...
After the Boko Haram insurgents destroyed the bridge linking Limankara village in Borno State to Mubi in Adamawa in 2014, the federal government awarded a contract...
In many Benue State communities, women especially suffer from the absence and non availability of staff and medicine in the PHCs many of which have been...
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs and dairy products to Nigerians, it...
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light on how staff shortages, infrastructural issues,...
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard for accountability, says it is not...
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a dumping ground. PEACE OLADIPO reports On...
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures and teaching approaches available. OLUWATOBI ODEYINKA...
Ugwu Obinna’s younger sister was killed after a truck driver transporting cows rammed into her shop located at the Okpatu end of the Old Enugu-Onitsha Road...
Suleman Tukur, 15, an SS 2 student of Government Day Secondary School (GDSS) Bakura in Bakura local government area of Zamfara State, could not hide his...
“Our laboratories are not conducive for learning; the termites have destroyed most of these laboratories, and there is not enough equipment in the school to use...
In Niger State, the over 20 communities around Auna River have had their hopes for fresh water, electricity supply and dry season farming dashed for about...
