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2023: Flood victims who lost their PVCs may not vote in Jigawa State
By Elijah Akoji
Residents of Jahun, Miga and Hadeja in Jigawa State may be disenfranchised in the 2023 election because their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) have been washed away by floods.
Mal. Audu Muhammed, 51, and his two wives…
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How Kano awarded contracts of over N1bn to inactive companies
By Lukman Abdulmalik
In 2020, in a report obtained from the ministry of finance and economic development, Kano state, it was recorded the state government awarded over one billion Naira to 224 contracting companies to execute different…
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INVESTIGATION: Fear, uncertainty as APC, PDP agents harvest PVC details in disguise
This investigation by CrossRiverWatch‘s Ogar Monday, uncovered a scheme by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its major rival, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aimed at outsmarting the Independent National Election Commission…
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In Ethiopia’s Tigray, a horrific military cooperation: weaponized rape
By Lucy Kassa
“They raped me in front of my father.
I was too scared to even make a sound.
They threatened to kill us both.”
– A 24-year-old Tigrayan woman
“They came into our house and started looting. They did not stop there.
They…
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Despite multi-million-naira releases for PHC renovation, primary health care still in shambles,…
By Ekemini Simon
Stepping a foot into the vicinity of Gumshir Ward primary healthcare centre (PHC), Dengi Constituency, Kanam local government area (LGA) gives a glimpse of the rot enveloping the entire healthcare centre. The cracks on the…
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2023: NNPP agents allegedly promise Kano rural residents fertilizer, scholarship to release their…
By Elijah Akoji
This investigation by SOLACEBASE reveals an attempt by the main opposition political party in Kano State, the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), to compromise the 2023 general election by recruiting party agents for the…
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Over N175m water project mysteriously disappeared in Bauchi
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources, with funding from the COVID-19 Intervention Fund, claimed to have executed a multi-million naira solar-powered water boreholes across six local government areas in Bauchi north. However,…
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How FG releases millions of naira to non-existing water constituency projects in Kano
In an attempt to tackle water scarcity and provide access to safe drinking water to communities in Kano State, the Federal Government in 2019 awarded contracts to various companies for the construction of boreholes and supply of wash bores.…
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For many refugee children in Niger State’s conflict-torn communities, basic education is not a…
By Anibe Idajili
When bandits raided their community in February 2022, the family of 9-year-old Nusaiba, a pupil at the Ado Bobi Primary School in Bobi, a community in the Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State, fled to Kontagora.…
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Ahead of 2023 Elections: APC, PDP mass collection of voters’ data causes distrusts in Enugu
By Ben Aroh
Agents of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are going around Enugu State to collect the identification number on voter cards and personal information of voters.
Ben Aroh investigates…
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