Alexandre Capron expected to find a sinister, well-funded organization when he began investigating a COVID-19 disinformation campaign that had captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of people in Africa and Western Europe. Newsfeed posts from five popular Facebook pages…
Monies kept in Treasury Single Account (TSA) don’t yield interest, the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, told the Daily Trust on Sunday. In a telephone interview on Sunday, the AGF said no recovered fund should be kept…
By Ifah Ele Sunday The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has come up with a prescription on how Nigeria can cope with the current economic challenges caused by COVID-19 pandemic. NEITI is a government agency task with the challenge…
Customers of different commercial banks are groaning over excessive charges from their accounts, findings by the Daily Trust revealed. The financial institutions known as Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in corporate parlance have reportedly introduced different deductions to increase their incomes,…
While the federal and state governments step up efforts against banditry, the menace persists in several states, consuming many in its trail. The Northwest has seen increased violence for some years now, but in the last five months, it has…
It is definitely not the best of time for the Nigerian media industry. The industry has lost seven vibrant journalists to the cold hands of death within a space of a week. Death, no doubt, is an inevitable end for…
Market to lose N1.1trn in 9 months Prior to the planned increase in electricity tariff scheduled for July 1, 2020 by distribution companies, there was palpable tension across the country. However, the plan was suspended following disagreements that greeted the…
Nigeria’s salt import is soaring amid huge deposits in Benue, Cross River, Ebonyi, Abia, Taraba, and Nasarawa states. Despite the abundance of sources of salt in the country, Nigeria spends huge amounts of foreign exchange (forex) on the importation of…
Daily Trust Foundation has conducted a three-day workshop on Copy Editing for journalists who are line editors and sub-editors with Daily Trust newspaper and other media platforms in Abuja. The three-day workshop began on Monday, June 22, 2020 and ended…
From recording hundreds of COVID-19-related deaths within five weeks, Kano State, with its about 20 million population, posted a total of eleven new cases from June 21-27, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The progressive drop in…
