Weeks after insurgents killed dozens of rice farmers in Koshobe village near Mafa Council, Maiduguri and Zabarmari have turned into a Mecca for condolence visits. Daily, dignitaries, including a presidential delegation, governors, ministers, legislators, development partners, and traditional rulers throng…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reopening of four land borders in three of the six geopolitical zones of the country with immediate effect. These include Seme border in the South- West, Illela and Maigatari borders in the North- West,…
No fewer than 1,570 Nigerians were kidnapped between January and November 2020 in 366 reported cases, Daily Trust investigation reveals. The kidnappers raked in over N311 million from payment of ransom by relatives of their victims within this period, though…
By Theophilus Abbah The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, northern governors, and traditional rulers, some governors of southern states, and apologists of the Buhari administration have made social media regulation a sing-song after the recent EndSARS protests.…
For long, journalists have relied on eyewitnesses’ accounts for a good deal of their reportage. During the violence that erupted in the wake of the #EndSARS protests in Abuja, several ‘eyewitnesses’ on social media claimed they had seen churches and…
There is increased concern over the abuse of social media in Nigeria with various stakeholders saying it is partly responsible for recurrent civil disobedience occasioned by fake news. Experts on Wednesday said that through their handheld phones, millions of citizens…
The Data Journalism training which was held on October 6-7, and October 12-13, 2020 by Daily Trust Foundation with support from MacArthur Foundation taught journalists on the usage of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and other global data…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from MacArthur Foundation, has trained about thirty (30) journalists on how to use the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and other global data to do COVID-19 stories. The four-day workshop held on October…
The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), which was established on Thursday, July 11, 2009, as an offer of unconditional amnesty for ex-Niger Delta militants through a proclamation by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua on June 25, 2009, had no doubt…
Operatives of the just disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) have been severally accused of brutalising, torturing, maiming and killing innocent Nigerians across the country. As the #EndSARS protests continue across the country, some Nigerians who were victims of brutality and…
