ducation is often said to be the foundation of societal progress, but for pupils of Bare Primary School in Billiri, Gombe State, this promise feels like a distant dream. Despite government’s claims of prioritising education with grand projects like two-story…
The Daily Trust Foundation (DTF), in partnership with the Women’s Rights Advanced and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), Hamu Legal, and Bahama Chambers, has secured the release of 21 inmates from Kaduna and Katsina correctional centers by paying fines. In Kaduna State, 17 inmates…
The World Bank has approved over N13.21 trillion ($8billion) as loans for different developmental projects for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government in the last 20 months, Daily Trust can report. Analyses of the various loans indicated that they were targeted at…
The Daily Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust titles, on Monday, March 24, 2025, began a three-day investigative reporting training for senior journalists and editors drawn from several media houses across the country. The…
The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation, has officially flagged off the reconstruction and upgrade of the Alau Dam in Maiduguri, Borno State. The project underscores the administration’s commitment to enhancing water resource infrastructure, ensuring…
The Daily Trust Foundation has donated essential food and non-food items to two orphanages in Abuja and Kaduna. The beneficiaries, which included the Abuja Children Home, NASFAT Agency for Zakat and Sadaqat (NAZASAT), Jam’iyar Matan Arewa (JMA) Premier Orphanage, and…
Chief Isiaq Ajibola, a board member of the Daily Trust Foundation, has called on Nigerian journalists to hold state governments accountable by tracking and scrutinising their budgets. Speaking at a training session on budget tracking and public investigation in Enugu…
President Bola Tinubu has requested an upward revision of the proposed 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, citing additional revenue generated by key government agencies. In a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, which was read during plenary on Wednesday,…
Residents in Kaduna and surrounding areas remain without power as KAEDCO workers strike over unpaid pensions and poor working conditions. The protest, led by the National Union of Electricity Employees, claims that over 900 workers have been affected, though KAEDCO…
It was 6:30 am, and while the harmattan breeze was blowing, a group of teenage girls, seated by the roadside around ‘Tashan Shongo,’ along Bauchi Road in the Jekadafari area of Gombe metropolis, were waiting for potential farm owners. The…
