Mohammed Shekwo and his friends were playing within the school compound by 1pm, still during school hours. There were about six other boys with tattered clothes, barefooted and pouring sand on themselves as they shouted in their local language. A…
Vendors engaged in the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Niger State have been accused of hiring third-party cooks. Daily Trust learnt that there are seven items in the menu offered to pupils daily: jollof rice and beef…
he National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Bauchi State is said to be enmeshed in racketeering that is giving room for non-compliance with the menu based on farm produce locally grown by smallholder farmers to provide pupils nutritious meals.…
Although the Federal Government has invested N240.6 million on renewable energy projects across six rural communities to provide sustainable power, investigation by Daily Trust on Sunday shows that those communities still suffer outages over the poor condition of the facilities.…
Surpasses health, education, agric budgets Overshoots by N78bn in 2019 The current administration spent N1.477 trillion ($4bn dollars) on subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol between May 2015 when the government was inaugurated and July 2019,…
The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), with a target of reaching 12 million pupils, is feeding over 9.5 million pupils in 30 states, with each state having its list of homegrown foods supplied for the programme. However, the menu…
The board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $210 million for the implementation of the Nigerian transmission Expansion Programme (NTEP) -1 projects by the Transmission Company` of Nigeria (TCN). Read more:
Audu Yusuf just moved to a new three bedroom flat in the Aso C community of Nasarawa State, about 10 minutes away from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). He got an electrician said to be among the best in the…
Our correspondent in Gombe visits the once prestigious Government Comprehensive Secondary School, Dadin Kowa, where years of neglect have left the students no option but to share accommodation with bats while afraid of hoodlums. Read more:
Thousands of Abuja residents live under high tension power lines. To these people, electricity sparks in a ‘normal’ occurrence. Some of the residents said though there are sparks from the power line, nobody had died from electrocution in their areas…
