SPECIAL REPORT: School children, teachers bear brunt of insecurity across Nigeria
“I lost some of my colleagues and pupils to attacks. While some of us moved to Maiduguri, others ran to Bosso in Niger Republic,” a teacher, Mr Bukar, narrates.
What are infrastructure challenges facing Nigeria’s power sector
Power Sector Special with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism/REMOP
Topic: What Are Infrastructure Challenges Facing Nigeria’s Power Sector
Featuring: Dr Sam Amadi Former Chair Nigeria Electricity Regulatory…
Power sector special with Wole Soyinka Centre
Join Rotimi Sankore and Aghogho Oboh talk about Power Sector
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Motunrayo Alaka of Wole Soyinka Journalism Centre
Vahyala Kwaga Senior Research & Policy Analyst BudgIT
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
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