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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…

New electricity consumers in Nigeria are being ripped off by power distribution companies (DisCos) through estimated billing despite a policy stating that all new...

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...

Discos debts To Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) now N500 billion Discos transfer burdens to ordinary citizens

Teachers and residents express their concerns but Lagos State Government speaks on efforts to resolve the challenges.

With 10.5 million children already out of school in Nigeria, according to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF),’ Gabriel Ogunjobi reports how the situation gets even bleaker as the farmer-herder crisis has…

To gain access into schools in different LGAs in Kano State, investigative journalist Adeola Oladipupo went undercover as a researcher with an interest in inclusive education, gathering evidence, unbeknownst to staff members, to reveal the…

In this concluding part of this investigation, JULIANA FRANCIS probes the non-enforcement of extant laws and policies, which ordinarily ought to have ensured a safe learning environment for learners. She said: “Many parents are sceptical…

In this investigation that traverses three northern states, Zamfara, Niger and Kaduna, JULIANA FRANCIS looks at the effects of students’ abductions on parents and victims, and the failure of the government to make schools safe for learning.…

Toilet facilities are critical elements of any society, especially in a learning environment. This is because the state of toilets could help students or pupils stay in school, especially females. This is why some argue that school…

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…

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…

Application deadline: 30th May 2019 The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) invites Nigerian professional investigative reporters (full-time or freelance) from the print, online, broadcast and photography specialties…