School safety: Lack of security measures as albatross
The heightened challenge of insecurity in Nigerian schools is forcing many students out of school. KAYODE OLANREWAJU reports
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Rising insecurity as threat to governments’ Safe-School Initiative agenda
The heightened challenge of insecurity in Nigerian schools is forcing many students out of school. KAYODE OLANREWAJU reports
Energy theft: The story of “NEPA 2” in Nigeria
There is a peculiar kind of business undertaken by artisans known as ‘electricians’ or ‘NEPA 2’ which will never succeed without the knowledge of power distribution companies, yet for obvious reasons, even those who patronise them would…
DisCOs rip off customers with false promise of regular power supply using faulty tariff bands
THE Tariff Band Methodology deployed by Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies (DisCOs) to promise regular power supply is misleading and unrealistic, and the DISCOs have used it to rip off customers without supplying commensurate…
Estimated billing: New customers pay millions, as DisCos flout metering policy
New electricity consumers in Nigeria are being ripped off by power distribution companies (DisCos) through estimated billing despite a policy stating that all new...
Biz in tears as Ariaria traders blow N1bn on generators, bills
Dependence on crude kerosene-fuelled heating stoves and hundreds of loud generators due to epileptic power supply have created an uneasy way of doing business...
MDAs’ debts to Discos worsen financial stability for power sector
Discos debts To Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) now N500 billion
Discos transfer burdens to ordinary citizens
SPECIAL REPORT: Insecurity, flooding threaten education in Lagos schools
Teachers and residents express their concerns but Lagos State Government speaks on efforts to resolve the challenges.
INVESTIGATION: Farmer-Herder Crises in Oyo have Driven over 800 Children out of School
With 10.5 million children already out of school in Nigeria, according to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF),’ Gabriel Ogunjobi reports how the situation gets even bleaker as the farmer-herder crisis has…
INVESTIGATION: Inside Kano Schools Where Pupils Learn in Poor Conditions
To gain access into schools in different LGAs in Kano State, investigative journalist Adeola Oladipupo went undercover as a researcher with an interest in inclusive education, gathering evidence, unbeknownst to staff members, to reveal the…
Mass abductions: Leaving a trail of fear, tears and blood
In this concluding part of this investigation, JULIANA FRANCIS probes the non-enforcement of extant laws and policies, which ordinarily ought to have ensured a safe learning environment for learners.
She said: “Many parents are sceptical…
Kidnapping: A nation weighed down by out-of-school children (1)
In this investigation that traverses three northern states, Zamfara, Niger and Kaduna, JULIANA FRANCIS looks at the effects of students’ abductions on parents and victims, and the failure of the government to make schools safe for learning.…