REPORT: More Than Half of Nigeria’s IDPs Are Minors
More than half of Nigeria’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are children, a new report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed. The report, titled ‘Report of Internally Displaced…
Canada’s IRCC Denies Grieving Nigerian Family Visas to Bury Siblings
Eight members of the Aloysius household, a Nigeria-based family who just lost two of their children in an auto crash in Manitoba, Canada, have been denied emergency visitor visas to…
UDUS — Nigerian University Locked in a Spell of Open Defecation
Whenever 26-year-old Ibrahim Kasir felt the urge to excrete or urinate, the thought of the possible tendency of contracting diseases from using the public toilets in his school — Usmanu…
UPDATED: Court Denies Yahaya Bello Bail
A Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to grant bail to Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State, in his ongoing money laundering case involving over N100 billion.…
22 Days to Year End, 7 States Hide Q3 Budget Performance Despite Binding Laws
Less than 22 days to the end of 2024, seven states — Rivers, Gombe, Kano, Kebbi, Ogun, Sokoto and Borno — have yet to publish their Budget Implementation Reports (BIRs)…
ALERT: Arcane Trade Uses Kadaria Ahmed’s Name, Face in Fraudulent Ad
In August, Nigerian journalist Kadaria Ahmed called attention to misleading articles and Facebook posts about her. These posts targeted unsuspecting social media users, luring them into fake cryptocurrency trading platforms.…
SPOTTED: NASS Website Has Church ‘Prophetic Alert’ in Place of Senate Proceeding
The National Assembly website uploaded a church manual as its January 1, 1970 senate proceeding document. What FIJ first found surprising on the Resources dropdown that leads to the ‘Votes…
Retiring Ogun CP Failed to Spot Clue, Nab Finance Director’s Killers in 12 Months
Abiodun Alamutu, the outgoing Commissioner of Police in Ogun State, has said his only regret during his tenure as CP is his failure to arrest the killers of Taiwo Oyekanmi,…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Jahman Anikulapo Public Interest Journalism Fellowship
Are you an early-career journalist with an interest in public interest journalism? The Foundation for Investigative Journalism and Social Justice (FIJ) is inviting applications for a one-year fellowship programme for…
From Refusal to Denial… Canadian Boss Withholds Nigerian Editor’s $441.48
Rhonda Chieduch, a Canadian book publisher and owner of On The Way Books and More, a publishing outfit situated in Alberta, Canada, is yet to pay Daniel Fidelis, a Lagos…