Untold Stories Of Nigerians ‘Stranded’ In UAE
“I am in a fix. My visa has expired and I can’t renew it. My job is gone. Life is hell in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for Nigerians now,” said a Nigerian who has been living and working in…
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Cross River Cassava Processors Groan Despite Efforts To Modernise Output
Madam Affiong Robert looks over 70 but she is actually under 60 years of age. The grandmother of three from Ikono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has lived in Okoyong, a historical community of Cross River State since…
How Poor Condition Of Sokoto Nomadic Schools Forces Herders To Withdraw Children
The move to boost education among herders through nomadic schools in Sokoto State has suffered setbacks due to dilapidated structures and poor condition of the schools, Daily Trust reports. Muhammadu Shehu, chairman of the School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) of the…
Bela: Kano’s Skin Hospital In Deplorable State
Access to primary healthcare is a problem not unique to Kano State, but the dearth of health workers, especially medical doctors, in the state and the deplorable situations of many of the hospital, especially those outside the metropolitan areas, have…
N370m Water Project Fails To Drop Water In Gombe Community
Despite gulping nearly N400 million, a Dukku regional water supply project failed to dispense a droplet of water, six years after the contract was awarded and supposedly completed. In 2016, the Federal Ministry of Water Resources budgeted over N500m for…
15 Years After: FG Loses N80bn Annually Over Stuck Cargo Tracking System
Fifteen years after the federal government introduced the electronic system of tracking and monitoring cargoes and other vessels along the Nigerian seas, the scheme is yet to fully take off, on account of high-level horse-trading, corruption scandals and rivalry between…
How Hospitals Extort Patients Over Blood, Screening Costs
Ahmad’s wife is an expectant mother, and as is the usual practice, the private hospital where she attends ante-natal care asked him to donate blood for her. He got a pint of blood from the National Blood Service Commission (NBSC)…
Scandal Rocks Sokoto Multi-Million Naira Constituency Road Projects
In this investigation, Daily Trust on Sunday unravels sharp practices in multi-million naira constituency road projects in two Sokoto rural communities, allegedly abandoned since 2019. Olu Maifachi sits on a mat, meters away from his vulcanizing shop, and stares at…
2022 Budget: Research Institute’s Bid To Execute N80bn Constituency Projects Raises Eyebrows
An advertisement placed by the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) in some Nigerian newspapers on Monday, April 18, 2022, calling for bids for ‘2020 direct line capital and zonal intervention projects worth about N80 billion has raised eyebrows,…
7 Controversies That Ousted Erstwhile PSC Chairman, Musiliu Smith
Following the resignation of former Inspector-General of Police Musiliu Smith as the chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), real reasons that led to his exit have begun to surface, Daily Trust on Sunday reports. Although the management, through the…