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Jun 10, 2022
by in Investigations

INVESTIGATION: How online fraudsters siphon victims’ funds through ‘SportyBet’ platform

As Nigeria transits into a cashless society, the evolution also creates opportunities for internet scammers to take advantage of unsuspecting citizens. ABDULWASIU OLOKOOBA reports about how Nigerians are getting fleeced of their hard-earned money by internet fraudsters through ‘SportyBet’, a sports betting platform.    Last September, Adebayo Sherifdeen, a penultimate student at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, […]

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May 10, 2022
by in Investigations

SPECIAL REPORT: Enugu govt watches as waste takes over state, threatens public health, environment

In this report, Arinze Chijioke looks at how delays in evacuation of waste in Enugu State encourages indiscriminate waste disposal, its health implications, and how the practice impacts on the environment. As Benjamin Eze walked towards a waste dumping site in the Asata Area in Enugu State, South-eastern Nigeria one afternoon in early January 2022, he discovered that the five waste dumpsters were filled and overflowing and that residents were beginning to drop their waste on the ground […]

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Mar 06, 2022
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SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the illegal trading of forest woods in Cross River community

“With a N20,000 bribe, an external buyer can influence the youth in host communities , Cross River State, to cut down trees from the forest illegally.” Kehinde Ogunyale Travelling into the Cross River forest as a researcher – let alone a reporter- to investigate the increasing impact of deforestation in host communities is considered deadly; […]

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Feb 12, 2022
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INVESTIGATION: Health workers still collect bribes, issue covid-19 cards without vaccination

In the midst of a pandemic that has ravaged the entire globe killing hundreds of people, governments all over the world put several measures in place to stem the tide and save a dying population. In efforts to arrest the sweeping pandemic, a vaccine was developed, and governments, including that of Nigeria expended enormous resources […]

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