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INVESTIGATION: How insider abuse, shoddy handling of contracts by non-existent firms hamper teachers’ productivity in Kano

In efforts to improve productivity of teachers in public schools in Kano State, the state’s Ministry of Education, disbursed over N150 million for repair and renovation of over 16 government secondary schools staff quarters in different local governments areas. However, most of these renovation jobs were not implemented, while others were shabbily executed by the […]

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SPECIAL REPORT: Indiscriminate waste dumps, open defecation pose threat of epidemic in Kwara as govt slow to act

Forty three-year-old Bilikis Abdulrahman covered her pineapple fruit she is selling inside a white bucket container. This, she does to avoid flies perching on them. They plentiful from the piles of dumped waste on the road median close to her shop at Mandate Market in Ilorin, the Kwara State in north central Nigeria. As she […]

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SPECIAL REPORT: Women displaced by conflict in North-Central Nigeria become farm helps to survive

Displaced women finding refuge in Abagena camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Makurdi, Benue State have resorted to working on farmlands to survive. ARINZE CHIJIOKE reports In 2018, Doose Aodohemba, 25 watched as her 17-months-old baby Doowese, was killed when suspected criminal herdsmen attacked Umenge, one of the villages in Guma Local Government […]

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SPECIAL REPORT: Small businesses suffer, as govts fail to end sit-at-home in Nigeria’s South-East

It is a Thursday afternoon in December 2022 and the sun is scorching inside the popular Ogbete Market in Enugu State, South-East Nigeria, a day after Simon Ekpa, the self-acclaimed disciple of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), declared the completion of a five-day sit-at-home order- he described as “historic and […]

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SPECIAL REPORT: Small businesses suffer, as govts fail to end sit-at-home in Nigeria’s South-East

It is a Thursday afternoon in December 2022 and the sun is scorching inside the popular Ogbete Market in Enugu State, South-East Nigeria, a day after Simon Ekpa, the self-acclaimed disciple of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), declared the completion of a five-day sit-at-home order- he described as “historic and […]

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