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Amidst mounting concerns on the unleash of violence and conflicts in some parts of Nigeria and the media coverage of same, Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar, diplomat and former Minister for External Affairs, will lead conversations to…

As the Federal Government, operators, regulators and consumers of electricity continuously engage in the effort to turn around the ailing sector, the combination of theft, fraud, violence and vandalisation of facilities has been found to be…

In all the years of Adewale Owoeye as a machine fabricator, very few contracts have surpassed the one he got from a client for whom he was supposed to produce 30 grinding machines. When he was told it was to be delivered within three…

Lagos is surrounded by water and there are pockets of islands scattered across the city. In some of these islands, there are primary schools, whose teachers commute daily from the mainland. In this report, GBENGA SALAU, who visited five…

Basic infrastructure at the basic level of education in some villages and rural areas in Kano State are in a state of total decay, Daily Trust on Sunday reports. Investigation by our reporter who went to some schools in the three…

Lagos – In effect, this has made everyone a GENco. In each household, or for business owners, the brunt bearer has to supply its own power through generating sets, generally referred to as ‘I better pass my neighbour’, because of…

Lagos – Going through some of the images captured during a short trip to the just concluded 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2017 in South Africa, a shot of a beautifully lit Johannesburg, taken by this writer during…

• Lagos communities revolt, bemoan outage, ‘crazy’ billing • How consumers can calculate electricity consumed • ‘We will disconnect any community once we perceive violence’ The trees dotting the corporate headquarters of Ikeja…

Disguised, for two weeks, as a desperate customer in need of a prepaid meter, TAIWO ADEBULU investigates racketeering rings among officials of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC). In this report, he details how the officials…

Lagos out-of-school children Undue extortion, fear of failure, finance frustrate our education —Victims FOR six years, Agosu Meka was in the company of his fisherman father, Mr. Meka, in Sogunro Community, Iwaya, Yaba area of Lagos. His…

There have been concerns about rampant electrical accidents and electrocutions in Nigeria in recent times. Many people have lamented that what is even most worrisome is the fact that more lives and properties are being endangered with…

Their stories are rarely told. And when they are told, it is often from the angle of pity, discrimination and pathetic livelihood. But in an eight-week investigation across three southwestern states - Lagos, Ogun and Oyo, our correspondent…