In the last week of May, Mrs Dorothy Samuel (not real names), a former top banker and now a major branding specialist for several corporate organisations in the country, employed a domestic staff to take care of her home. She, however, insisted on ha...
In this second part of the investigative report, the two undercover reporters; Banjo Damilola and Habeeb Oladapo, having seen how exam malpractice is carried out in WAEC exams at Bachel College, also registered for JAMB CBT to unearth any malfeasance...
Having heard the claims of how excellent results in certain examinations can be paid for around certain schools in Lagos, two reporters went undercover, posing as illiterates, who want to sit for WAEC and JAMB exams, but too busy to sit down to study...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses, hawkers, and local intra-state transport operators in Cross River State are faced with illegal and multiple taxation. When there is resistance, illegal tax agents and thugs use force, intimidation, harass...
In this third and final part, DAMILOLA BANJO went undercover to unearth the sleaze, corruption and extortion ring in some Nigerian courts and the Correctional Centres were citizens languish because the justice system has been compromised At every poi...
A once booming venture, Nigeria’s coal industry has been stripped of life and laid bare with its potential for wealth creation greatly diminished. A cursory observation reveals thousands of job losses caused by a failed privatization scheme that has...
A six-month long investigative story, with laboratory tests, by RUTH OLUROUNBI and KELECHUKWU IRUOMA reveals how contaminants in the air, water and soil, as a result of the oil spills in Nigeria’s Ogoniland are affecting the health of people and how...
Clad in a white shirt and green skirt uniform, sixteen years old Zainab (not real name) narrates how she was raped and eventually got pregnant. She sat down with little difficulty to talk with this reporter, conscious of her new self, her bulging sto...
In the first part of this three-part investigative story, DAMILOLA BANJO exposed a string of extortion, bribery and intimidation by the agents and keepers of the law, especially the police. In this second part she further followed the cases to the co...
