Dafe Esiri Refuses to Refund Full Value of Widow’s 2021 IHS Fees
When Elizabeth Ebosele (pseudonym), a widowed care worker, needed to pay the United Kingdom Immigration Health Surcharge in 2021, she sent the naira equivalent of the dollar amount ($2,036) to…
Canadian Police Yet to Release Report One Year After Officers Killed Nigerian Teen
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is yet to release its investigative report on the killing of Afolabi Opaso, a Nigerian teenager, to his family 12 months after officers fatally…
FACT-CHECK: Was Kaduna Police Deputy Commissioner Caught Supplying Ammunition to Kidnappers?
Adamu Garba Zango, a lecturer at Baze University, has claimed that the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of the Kaduna State Police Command was arrested for supplying firearms to bandits…
Culture Archivist Jahman Anikulapo Receives UNESCO Defender of Cultural Rights Award
The International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH), under the guidance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has awarded Jahman Anikulapo, a culture archivist…
FG Budgets N238bn for Only One Hospital Through Service Wide Vote
The Federal Government has proposed N238.05 billion for a hospital under the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA), FIJ can report. This hospital allocation falls under the Service Wide Vote (SWV) section…
Kidnappers Kill Kaduna Woman Over N25m Ransom, Daughter Still With Them
A middle-aged woman captured by kidnappers at Ariko in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been killed by her abductors because her husband failed to pay the N25…
Abuja Resident’s N980,000 Goes Missing Between Payfixy’s Innovate1Pay, GTB
Ever since N980,000 was debited without authorisation from the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) account of Idumu Timothy (real name withheld), an Abuja resident, in September, he has been unable to…
One Week After FIJ’s Intervention, OPay Unfreezes Ibadan Pharmacist’s Account Blocked for 3 Years
In late 2021, Babatunde Olayiwola, an Ibadan-based pharmacist, tried to make a transaction on his personal OPay account but to no avail. He later found out that his account was…
After Initial Denial, Police Arrest el-Rufai’s Former Aide for ‘Misappropriating N4.1bn’
On Tuesday, Mohammed Bashir Sa’idu, a Kaduna State-based politician, who served as commissioner of local government affairs, chief of staff and commissioner of finance during the administration of former governor…
Abi Otedola’s Airjara Vanishes With N1.7m Lagos Man Paid for Canadian Work Permit 3 Years Ago
Taiwo Ogunjobi (pseudonym), a resident of Lagos State, paid Abi Otedola’s Airjara Travel and Tours N1,728,000 for a Canadian work permit in March 2022 but he has neither received the…