SPECIAL REPORT: Children suffer as Lagos fails to meet education needs of increasing population
The pupils hurriedly picked up their respective belongings as sounds of the assembly bell echoed from a distance. They had walked about two kilometres from Olowojeunjeje axis, through the Ikotun-Igando road, in order to arrive at school…
INVESTIGATION: FG’s N3.4bn solar power grids rot in Abuja, Kaduna
Adamu Ibrahim operates a provision shop in Durumi-Mpape, near Maitama in Abuja. His shop was one of those that benefited from free solar power in 2014 when Operation Light Up Rural Nigeria (OLRN) came up. Three years after, Ibrahim said the…
Left To Rot: Sad Tales Of Sokoto’s Almajiri Schools
ur society desires that physical education will assist the individual to develop cooperation, respect for others, health knowledge, democratic behaviour, sound character and economic efficiency,” Ukacha Aminu, a 14-year-old Junior Secondary…
How N5000 is changing the narrative in Sokoto schools
Eight-year-old Zainab Danburdi’s academic prowess became noticeable at the Burdi Primary school in Gwabadawa local government area of Sokoto State. The orphan distinguished herself as an outstanding pupil, topping her Primary Two class.…
How Infrastructure Decay Is Derailing Universal Basic Education In Ekiti
If truly Ekiti wants to remain a state that values education, and achieve its targets for free and compulsory universal basic education, then, it is high time it woke up to address the infrastructural decay plaguing schools across the…
INVESTIGATION: Despite acquiring $1.3bn DisCos, investors shift meter, transformer burden to…
Six years ago, the Federal Government unbundled the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and handed over 18 utility firms to private investors. Government raked in $2.5 billion (about N916.575bn) from the transaction involving six…
How electricity companies fleece Nigerians in service charges, despite assurance of firm regulation…
In April 2017, Aliyu Umar, 27, began his day at dawn. He started by carefully preparing charcoal fire with which he would prepare breakfast of noodles, fried eggs, bread and tea for his early morning customers.
His shop was a hotspot for…
Nigeria’s power grid records 206 collapses in 9 years
Nigerians woke up on Wednesday, May 8, to a nationwide outage that cut off power from many homes and factories, leading to reduced load allocations to the distribution companies (DisCos).
About 5:29 am the following day (Thursday, May 9,…
System collapse: TCN to maintain Calabar, other power lines
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) is shopping for contractors within the next 42 days to maintain two of its transmission lines spanning Odukpani near Calabar in Cross River State, and Alaoji in Abia State.
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INVESTIGATION: Jonathan/Buhari administrations spent another N1.164 trillion on power in eight…
Nigerian Government, between 1999 and 2010, reportedly spent over N4.7 trillion on power, but the country remained in darkness. Eight years later, Jonathan and Buhari administrations invested another N1.164 trillion into the sinkhole…
SPECIAL REPORT: For Nigeria, darkness has great cost: trillions of naira and over 59 years
Oilfields across the resource-abundant Niger Delta spew flames day and night, fired by gas associated with oil production. Daily, Nigeria flares some 700 million standard cubic feet of such gas at over 170 sites.
Nigeria’s proven reserve…
Lagos communities in desperate need of public primary, secondary schools
The decision of a few yesterday’s men is today jeopardizing the future of over 9,000 children of school age when the plots of land allocated for the siting of public primary and secondary schools were sold off in two Lagos communities. This…
Electricity back in Niger community, one year after
After twelve months of living in darkness without any intervention from government, the people of Nkangbe community in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State are now have electricity thanks to two transformers installed in their…