The University of Lagos located in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, has been embroiled in controversies with allegations bothering on misappropriation of funds to the tune of N5...
On paper, Muhammad Zayyanu is seven years old. The quiet boy who looks shorter for his age could not recollect when breakfast was part of his...
Analysing nearly 3,000 payments made by various Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) over the previous six months (January 16 to June 20) has not...
Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in February, 2020, Chukwudi Okoroigwe’s daily earnings as a bus driver was hardly enough to cater to the needs of his family. Apart from his wife...
Ten years after the Cross River State government and African Development Bank (AFDB) jointly awarded the Yahe-Wanokom-Wanikade-Benue border road for construction under the Cross River Rural...
In this concluding part, ARINZE CHIJIOKE talks about some of the projects that are serving the people and how various WASH programmes have failed to tackle perennial water issues in the country. ...
Many have seen the demolished building, but not many know the circumstances that led to the teardown of the about N3 billion property owned by Lagos-based...
In November 2020, three organizations and the Enugu State government celebrated the completion of N300 million worth of projects that were expected to improve the lives of poor...
Earlier in January, the Nigerian media space was awash with reports of violence between herders and farmers across the country. Lukman Abolade visited some of the...
In recent times, the world economy has developed tremendously and this is partly linked with activities of petty traders who are part of the informal sector,...
Increased rainfall, as a result of climate change, has impacted negatively on many parts of the world. In Anambra State, Nigeria, KELECHUKWU IRUOMA, writes that farmers have...
In 2014, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) awarded 10 road projects worth over N2 billion in various communities in Edo State, with a 12-month completion...
In this concluding part, ARINZE CHIJIOKE discovers that apart from the Obohia-Ohuru-Aba Road, there are similar projects initiated by the NDDC in Abia State which have either been abandoned, not started...
There were feelings of excitement among the people of Ohuru-Ndoki Community when three contractors were prequalified to bid for the construction of their road in 2008. They were...
The process of procuring the new national identity card has been fraught with complaints, with many alleging extortion by staff of the National Identity Management Commission...
In October 2019, Ripples Nigeria took a tour of Aba – a thriving commercial hub in South-eastern Nigeria – and came back with memorable pictures from...
In the last week of May, Mrs Dorothy Samuel (not real names), a former top banker and now a major branding specialist for several corporate organisations...
Editor’s Note: This months-long investigation was led by Ripples Nigeria’s Muhammad Al-bashir with the support of locals. Sources include community members and leaders, as well as...
In this second part of the investigative report, the two undercover reporters; Banjo Damilola and Habeeb Oladapo, having seen how exam malpractice is carried out in...
Having heard the claims of how excellent results in certain examinations can be paid for around certain schools in Lagos, two reporters went undercover, posing as...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses, hawkers, and local intra-state transport operators in Cross River State are faced with illegal and multiple taxation. When there is...
A once booming venture, Nigeria’s coal industry has been stripped of life and laid bare with its potential for wealth creation greatly diminished. A cursory observation...
In this third and final part, DAMILOLA BANJO went undercover to unearth the sleaze, corruption and extortion ring in some Nigerian courts and the Correctional Centres were citizens...
A six-month long investigative story, with laboratory tests, by RUTH OLUROUNBI and KELECHUKWU IRUOMA reveals how contaminants in the air, water and soil, as a result...
Clad in a white shirt and green skirt uniform, sixteen years old Zainab (not real name) narrates how she was raped and eventually got pregnant. She...
In the first part of this three-part investigative story, DAMILOLA BANJO exposed a string of extortion, bribery and intimidation by the agents and keepers of the...
In this three-part investigative story, Damilola Banjo goes undercover to expose how Nigeria’s justice system is being abused via arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions, torture, and commercialization of...
Despite the state’s recent declaration of free education for kids in primary and secondary school in Kaduna State, a community still hosts a school that scares...
“In 2006, the Delta State government established the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) to address the issues of lack of development in its...
It has been 9 years since Rosemary Alonna’s husband died after suffering from an illness she does not recall. Before his death in 2010, Alonna and her husband, worked on...
Like some other presidents, and heads of state before him, President Muhammadu Buhari is being urged by some Nigerians to continue in power, despite what the...
The Nigeria government has often mouthed its commitment to quality and progressive education. In doing so, it instituted, among others, the nomadic education policy. Though well...
In this second part of an investigation on how LAGESC officials extort Lagosians, KELECHUKWU IRUOMA spoke with some victims, and reveals how the agency’s officials exploit offenders’ ignorance...
Allegations of extortion by officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), especially those deployed to various pedestrian bridges in Lagos, had been rife. In...
“Towards the bank of Ekulu River, about 20 minutes’ drive from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport sits a certain camp called Gabon. With virtually no social...
The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has taken a giant first leap in Nigeria, to produce electric cars. PATRICK EGWU visited the school to uncover this...
Against the backdrop of billions of dollars donated, and claims made by the Nigerian government, that Bama town in Borno State, a former Boko Haram enclave...
Christian Onuoha is one of many in a list of Nigerians killed extra judiciously, by trigger happy policemen. Patrick Egwu visited Umuahia, and the family of...
There are 98 million Nigerians living in extreme poverty, according to a report by the United Nations. To survive, many, especially women engage in petty trading...
Scrap is a key manufacturing input for Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, and the recycling industry is contributing to the economy, creating jobs and lifting people...
Some months before the 2019 general elections, a number of governors in South East Nigeria indicted the federal government of negligence in implementation of capital projects....
Five years after a contractor abandoned a primary healthcare centre meant to serve a remote Kano community, the people tell Ripples Nigeria’s Linus Unah the agonies...
The Nigerian government budgeted funds to provide electricity for some rural areas in the country. On paper, the projects are tagged completed, but evidence on ground...
Nigeria’s estimated annual palm oil consumption is 2.4 million tons. Yet, the country has a deficit of 0.9 million tons of palm oil. The major drawbacks...
Decades after Nigeria launched a team to look into how the country can produce antidotes to snake bites, and after late Prof Akunyili concluded a research...
The level of quackery in Benue state is alarming. In rural communities, quack doctors perform surgeries on patients for non-surgical conditions like Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID),...
In August 2018, the federal government released a list of 69 road and bridge projects it claimed were on-going in the South East after the five...
With 57 percent rate, Ebonyi state has the highest number of out of school children in the southeast. The state government in 2017 and 2018 allocated...
In this concluding part of the series on the budgeted for, but not funded Enugu State libraries; the searchlight is beamed on Awgu, Amufie and Ibagwa-Aka....
The Enugu State Library Board between 2016 – 2018, budgeted a total sum of N134,903,152 for the renovation, rehabilitation, reconstruction and procurement purposes for the libraries....
