The enticing aroma of bean cakes, fondly known as Akara, filled the entrance of the building Afon community regards as the Court. The bean cake vendor, commonly called Iya Alakara, operates just outside the open structure, beside the tarred road—a po...
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 tr...
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 c...
In May and June 2024, this reporter embarked on a mission to ascertain the status of some of the 2022 Sokoto State projects at the Shehu Shagari College of Edication. These projects include: ‘Rehabilitation of male and female hostels; Renovatio...
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 Oh...
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 j...
It was 1 p.m. The sun cast long shadows across the schoolyard of Government Day Senior Secondary School, Kofar Rini, Sokoto, where seven students, all aged less than 20, kicked around a football in front of the blackboard. The air was filled with lau...
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 trans...
After the Boko Haram insurgents destroyed the bridge linking Limankara village in Borno State to Mubi in Adamawa in 2014, the federal government awarded a contract for its reconstruction. Ten years after, IMRAM RIDWAN was on a fact finding mission, a...
