With over 2,800 active erosion sites in Nigeria’s Southeast Region, the risk of people losing their homes and means of livelihoods loom larger than ever before,...
By: Banjo Damilola The sun was at its scorching best. It was a Saturday, a day when most people were either relaxing at home or attending...
Since 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic rule, elections at all levels, have been marred with electoral irregularities – violence and ballot box snatching. Now, the...
Fresh from a visit to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Benue state, Investigative journalist, Patrick Egwu tells the heart-wrenching stories of how children disappear at...
In 2005, Chevron Nigeria Limited established the Itsekiri Regional Development Council (IRDC) and disbursed N7.2 billion to it for the development of 24 Itsekiri communities. Eighteen...
Several years of living with a polluted land and spoiled environment, the people of Ogoniland finally breath a sigh of relief when the federal government several...
The stats are very troubling. The images out of Borno are even more horrifying! Late 2017, the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, informed the world...
A report released in March 2018 by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), which showed that Lagos state had about 1,401,390 million PVC’s still in its...
Since September last year, when the Nigerian army launched Operation Python Dance II – a military offensive in the South East region aimed at quelling the...
It was a sweltering Wednesday afternoon when my telephone line rang, mid May. I took no special heed as I was just settling down to work,...
By Patrick Egwu… In every conflict, people are always at the heart of it – from those who were killed, relatives of the deceased and chilling...
By Sunday Orji… “…Before the end of the third day, all the animals that took the water died“. The flares at Obrikom in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government...
The incidence of violence against children is on the high with concerned groups decrying the alarming increase. The growing scourge has also witnessed the clamour for...
By Patrick Egwu… In efforts to eliminate widespread allegations of corruption, mass cheating, extortion of candidates and collusion by officials, as well as other malpractices and...
Suspected militants of the radical group Boko Haram stormed the northeastern Nigerian village of Dapchi two weeks ago and made away with 110 schoolgirls. Linus Unah...
Exactly two years ago, Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, boasted that by the year 2018 Africa’s most populous black country will begin the production of...
In Benue, a state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, as the governor battles conflicts thrown up by clashes between farmers and herdsmen, he is equally building million-dollar...
When Governor Rochas Okorocha rallied most members of his cabinet and a sprinkle of officials of Dana Air under the smoldering heat of Sam Mbakwe Cargo...
Sheltered in the heart of Lagos mainland, its sultry environment belies the rot within. But this has not always been so. Established in 1947, Yaba College...
At the presentation of the 2018 national budget in Abuja last week, the Nigerian government allocated 7.04 percent of the 8.6 trillion budgets to the education...
In Benue, a state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, persistent rains and heavy floods are ravaging farmlands, thereby affecting food production and forcing farmers to migrate. Ripples...
Nigeria is estimated to have the highest number of out-of-school children globally, with over 10.5 million children, according to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization...
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, which NYSC falls under, in its 2017 budget, allocated N3, 272, 103, 431 for the feeding of 297, 293...
Young Nigerian graduates from universities and polytechnics are often excited about the call to serve the nation. Every year, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) mobilises...
The voices they tried to silence The military personnel that stormed Anasa Beach in the course of our work had questioned whether there were any Bakassi...
Revisiting the long, complicated history and its many fallouts If anything, the episode of the reported killing Nigerian fishermen, the passions it inflamed, and the debate...
Reawakening the ghosts of a bitter dispute In July, reports of the killing of ninety-seven Nigerian fishermen in the Bakassi Peninsula sent shockwaves across Nigeria and...
Nailed with a stroke of pen June 14, 2017 would have passed for any other day. It was a Wednesday and the conference room was packed...
The arrest of two Chinese nationals, Taolung Shen and Xu Jing Yau, in February 2017, for allegedly dealing in fake tyres, estimated at about N5.3 billon,...
Despite a subsisting court order, over 4,000 residents of Otodo Gbame were ruthlessly rendered homeless after their waterfront community was demolished by the Lagos State government....
They Opened Our Doors With Force, Bringing In Cows To Eat Our Seedlings Before these attacks drove everyone out, Uatsor used to be a peaceful village...
The people of Benue State seem to have had more than a fair share of tragedies emanating from attacks carried out by marauders suspected to be...
Since the advent of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, the Nigeria Prisons Services (NPS) has been rocked with at least three different jailbreaks, as well as prison...
Never minding the squalid life pattern they are faced with on a daily basis; residents of Aboki Estate brave the many obstacles that life throws at...
At a time he was unsure of what path to settle for in his life’s journey, the young and active Ziggy (not real name), eventually decided...
Since the Boko Haram insurgency started in Nigeria’s northeast, hundreds of soldiers and officers have been drafted from various units and divisions across Nigeria into the...
NO ACCESS ROAD, NO DRAINAGE SYSTEM, ILL-STRUCTURED OBAJANA-OYO ROAD As popular as Obajana, the town hosting the largest cement producing company in Sub-Saharan Africa is, there...
Years ago, when Dangote’s Obajana Cement plant was commissioned by President Goodluck Jonathan in Obajana, Kogi State people would have thought that in no time, the...
Concluding part…. Anih who has been into the business of shoemaking for more than 18-years says the year 2016 was different, and that despite the fact...
For the first time visitor to Aba, the allure of its fast-paced commercial life can be overwhelming. The city houses Ariaria Market, known not just for...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had recently informed Nigerians that it had suspended Heritage Capital Markets Limited indefinitely from all capital market activities. The regulator,...
SQUANDERING OF RICHES Okorocha’s ardent critics allege that he is squandering the State’s meagre resources by conceptualizing and abandoning projects. Ripples Nigeria findings show that the...
Facts and lies ROADS/INFRASTRUCTURE In terms of numbers, Ripples Nigeria investigation showed that Governor Okorocha, indeed, scored good marks in roads development in Owerri and other...
He is hailed, ‘My Governor-My Governor’ by his many admirers. To others, however, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State represents a nightmare, and has been called...
More revelations have emerged as to why the Senate refused to approve the 2016 budget of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) asides the excuse that it...
In this second part of the serial, Ripples Nigeria presents the concluding part of the findings from an investigative trip to Osun State to ascertain the...
For the citizens of Osun, wearing the toga of a backward educational state has become a burden too shameful to carry. It is an open sore,...
The Federal Government on Thursday, filed a motion to drop the criminal conspiracy and forgery charges of Senate Standing Order against the Senate President Bukola Saraki...
