Dr Kole Shettima, the Africa Director of the MacArthur Foundation, discusses the work of the US-based philanthropic organization and argues that Nigerians should fund noble causes through Foundations. He spoke on 30 Minutes with Mannir Dan-Ali, an interactive programme on…
Lami Sadiq, the former Group Investigations Editor of Media Trust won several Journalism awards. Her multimedia investigative reports about organ harvesting syndicates and how they permanently damage the lives of young men won the Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting award for…
Dr Laraba James Lapari, now a practicing medical doctor at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Kwara State, benefited from the Daily Trust Foundation scholarship for medical and nursing students. In this short interview, she provides an insight…
Lagos State benefited from major project approvals by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) running into N3.9 trillion, representing 111 per cent of the combined sum of N3.56trn approved for the South East, North West and North East with 18 states…
A network of staff, colluding with students to leak examination question papers, has taken the centre stage within the Department of Mass Communication of the Kaduna Polytechnic (Kadpoly). This report, grounded in interviews with ex-students of the department and some…
In May 2014, the Terminus area of Jos, in Plateau State was hit by twin bomb explosions; one of many the state experienced but by far the deadliest. A decade after the incident, Weekend Trust revisits the past to dig…
The trend of sabotaging the national economy through illegal refining of crude oil, otherwise known as oil bunkering, appears unending in the Niger Delta region as syndicates operating the illegal business devise new means of survival daily, despite the efforts…
At least 10 journalists have been arrested in the past one year in what seems like a targeted clampdown on free speech with the use of the controversial Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act, 2015, Daily Trust reports. Journalists from the International Centre…
Rapid urbanisation and economic growth have caused an increase in traffic congestion and pollution in parts of Kano State. These issues continue to affect mobility in Nigeria’s most populous state which also has no mass transportation. To address these challenges,…
Niger and Zamfara are among the few states in the North-west and North-Central regions, endowed with huge deposits of minerals and other natural resources, and for years, several communities in the two states have been into local mining as their…
