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Jul 30, 2024
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INVESTIGATION: Kwara residents live in darkness ten years after, as ministry, contractor fail to deliver transformers

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 the Ministry of Power and the contractor who was awarded N44.5 million for the installation of transformers have failed to deliver. FATIMAH IDERA reports: For almost ten years, Mr. […]

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Jul 27, 2024
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INVESTIGATION…‘I cured thousands of cancer patients’: How Facebook allows spread of health misinformation with digital ads

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 misinformation and disinformation around the world, but an analysis conducted on some pages on the platform has documented how a huge health misinformation campaign runs on the Facebook platform, […]

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Jul 06, 2024
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INVESTIGATION: Benue govt’s poor investment in primary healthcare worsens maternal and child mortality

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 to healthcare across its rural communities. In this report, ARINZE CHIJIOKE visits Gboko and Ohimini Local Government Areas (LGAs), exposing the tragic stories of maternal and child mortality and […]

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Jul 03, 2024
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FEATURE… Climate Change: How windstorms ravage schools, worship centre in Benue, leaving children’s education in peril

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 worship lay in ruin. For 11-year-old Shater Kaanan and his peers, the storm brought not just physical devastation but also halted their paths to education. Shater, an ambitious young […]

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Jul 02, 2024
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INVESTIGATION: Despite multiple borehole projects, Kwara community suffers water scarcity

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 night, lined up in front of their houses. Individuals, especially women, were joyfully transferring the water into their kitchens in the Isanlu-Isin community, under the Isin Local Government Area […]

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