In many Benue State communities, women especially suffer from the absence and non availability of staff and medicine in the PHCs many of which have been abandoned and left to rot. MANASSEH MBACHII reports that child birth and survival is a harrowing...
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs and dairy products to Nigerians, it rented the facility out to a poultry farmer, who has also shut down business. Peace Oladipo...
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light on how staff shortages, infrastructural issues, dilapidated roads, and inadequate facilities contribute to soaring morta...
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard for accountability, says it is not under obligation to disclose its dealings and be accountable to the public i...
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a dumping ground. PEACE OLADIPO reports On August 24, 2023, at midnight, Gloria Adebayo, stirred from her sl...
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures and teaching approaches available. OLUWATOBI ODEYINKA writes. Helen Samuel is a 40-year-o...
Ugwu Obinna’s younger sister was killed after a truck driver transporting cows rammed into her shop located at the Okpatu end of the Old Enugu-Onitsha Road this July. “The driver was trying to dodge the potholes along the road when he lost his break...
Suleman Tukur, 15, an SS 2 student of Government Day Secondary School (GDSS) Bakura in Bakura local government area of Zamfara State, could not hide his dismay over the deplorable condition of his school. He and his colleagues lack a conducive enviro...
“Our laboratories are not conducive for learning; the termites have destroyed most of these laboratories, and there is not enough equipment in the school to use for our practicals and assignments.” On a cold Monday morning, students of th...
