The state of infrastructure in Kwara Basic Schools.
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‘Light Only Comes On During VIP Burials’: Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Gone Sour
In the first part of these investigative series, The New Diplomat chronicled how derelict power projects have continued to postpone prosperity in rural Nigeria with its deleterious effects on the socio-economic activities of the rural…
SPECIAL REPORT: For Nigeria’s Rural Population, There May Never Be Light!
To Yahaya Masani, living in darkness has a different meaning. Not for the hysterical noise: Up NEPA! –An age-long euphoria which often greets the restoration of public power supply in Nigeria; he wasn’t craving for much of the comfort that…
Mokwa’s blackout: A testament of how the poor was sold a dummy
Editor's note: Blackouts have become synonymous with Nigeria’s power sector and many rural poor are suffocating under the yoke of poverty aided by darkness.
Customers indict IKEDC for rights infringement, unwholesome practices
Customers of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC), especially those connected to Ikorodu, Abule-Egba, and Kollington Undertaking offices, have been suffering. And they are seeking an end to unjust treatment from the electricity…
Niger communities: Suffering in the midst of plenty
Niger State plays host to four hydro-electric power stations, one of which is the Shiroro Hydro-Electric power station, now known as the North-South Power Company. However, some communities in the state do not enjoy electricity supply.…
Rural Electrification: Power not yet for the people
Nigeria mini-grids collapse under mega greed as the Rural Electrification Agency and its contractors screw up project at Onidundu
Pupils lament pains, long trek in search of knowledge
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today, Malcolm X, the popular American Muslim minister and human rights activist once said. And in local parlance, the old saying rings true, that…
INVESTIGATION… Despite billions budgeted, Ebonyi students sit on stones under thatched roofs to…
With 57 percent rate, Ebonyi state has the highest number of out of school children in the southeast. The state government in 2017 and 2018 allocated over N2 billion each to the Ministry of Education and the Ebonyi State Universal Basic…
Inside The Hidden, Inaccessible Lagos State Inclusive And Special Schools
Unfortunately, investigation by Sahara Reporters revealed that many of the inclusive school are not only physically inaccessible for the pupils but are also unknown to Lagos State residents.
INVESTIGATION: Almajiri schools built by Jonathan govt. decaying across Nigeria
Between December 2010 and May 2015, the Goodluck Jonathan administration embarked on the Almajiri Education Programme which saw to the construction and equipment of 157 Tsangaya (Almajiri) Model Schools across Nigeria. ABDUSSALAM AMOO…
Multi-million naira Almajiri Model School built by Jonathan govt. abandoned, rotting away
When the President Goodluck Jonathan administration started the Almajiri Model School projects in 2010, it was to reduce the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria.
The project resulted in the construction and equipment of 157 model…