Schooling In Tears: How herdsmen crises paralysed basic education in Benue (1)
We ate raw cassava inside bush for several days fleeing from herdsmen –Pupils
In the last four years, a number of public schools in Agatu, Logo and Guma local government areas of Benue State have been brutally attacked by suspected…
SPECIAL REPORT: Osun’s out-of-school children: Tales of poverty, pains, struggle
Staying out of school has become normal for 13-year-old Adepoju Ibrahim. He considers learning vulcanizing as the best option having dropped out of school. Whenever kids in Ede town area of Osun State are going to school, Ibrahim moves to…
Investigation: Despite N18.5billion expenditure, pupils in public schools in Bauchi state still…
In the second part of this report, Nura Faggo reports on how public primary and junior secondary schools in Bauchi state buy basic instructional materials required for teaching and learning. The second segment also explores the condition of…
Investigation: Despite N18.5billion expenditure, pupils in public schools in Bauchi still learn in…
A four months investigation in public primary schools across 16 out of the 20 local government areas of Bauchi state has revealed unconducive learning environment characterized by overpopulated classes, near total absence of sitting…
WSCIJ welcomes eight student interns
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 welcomed eight undergraduates from three Nigerian universities for a two-month internship programme.
The interns include Elizabeth Lawal from…
18 journalists trained on visual storytelling
No fewer than eighteen photojournalists were trained on the art of visual storytelling at a workshop organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on the 25th and 26th September in Lagos.The two-day training,…
Media professionals engage students on investigative journalism
As part of the Pro-Engage Campus edition of the Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP), the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism engaged students of Mass Communication from the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Bayero University…
Gambari calls for an end to “the audacity of hypocrisy” of Nigerian leaders to tackle conflicts
Ibrahim Gambari, former Minister for External Affairs and erstwhile United Nations Under-Secretary General, has called for an end to what he calls, “the audacity of hypocrisy” of the Nigerian ruling class. The Nigerian scholar and diplomat,…
Gambari, others to speak on conflict reporting at the 10th Wole Soyinka Centre Lecture
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…
Investigation: How impunity, theft thwart stable electricity in Benin
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…
Consumers suffer, businesses crumble as DISCOs ‘punish’ residents
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…
How non-supervision promotes teachers’ indolence in Lagos riverine schools
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…
How infrastructural decay affects basic education in rural Kano
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…