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INVESTIGATION: Inside Gaya emirate in Kano where residents, cattle drink from the same well
By Elijah Akoji
It is shameful that we are discussing issues such as lack of water supply, how do we tell people that Gaya, an Emirate that has produced a Senator and a House of Representatives member among other prominent men, still drink…
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‘We sleep in sewage’ – government promises change but Namibians still suffering
By Frederick Clayton and Sonja Smith
Photography by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Ever since independence, Namibians have sought education, employment and better lives in Windhoek, the country’s political and industrial epicenter. It’s…
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Namibian govt puts faith in ‘cheap solutions’ as sanitation sector fails
In 2012, a UN special rapporteur said Namibia’s sanitation deficit was due to a “lack of a common vision” and an “absence of effective coordination among the different ministries.” In 2023, these are still the biggest obstacles to improving…
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‘Not the Kind of Life a Human Being Should Live’: How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its…
By Frederick Clayton and Sonja Smith
Photography by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Every day, Natalia Shaanika, 15, escorts her five younger siblings across a busy road to a landfill site to relieve themselves. As they squat – partially…
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After SOLACEBASE report, Jigawa govt distributes palliatives to flood victims from donated fund
By: Elijah Akoji
“We have moved on, we were never expecting any gesture from anyone again, not even the government, one of our prayer points in this fasting is that Allah will not allow the flood to destroy our community again, and we…
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How BVAS machines were by-passed in Enugu governorship election
By Ben Aroh
The Crux
The March 18 2023 guber election in Enugu State took three days to be declared due to alleged non-use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System and over voting in Nkanu East LGA. The state returning officer, Prof…
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INVESTIGATION: Abandoned Mines: A danger to communities across Nigeria
By Olajide Adelana
Coal was first discovered in Nigeria in 1909 at Udi in Enugu, south-eastern Nigeria. The country’s first coal mine, the Ogbete mine, opened six years later. The Nigerian Coal Corporation (NCC) was formed in 1950,…
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INVESTIGATION: How multi-billion naira BUK solar plant is abandoned to rats as dept., faculties,…
In an effort to provide the nation’s ivory towers with uninterrupted electricity, in 2019 the Federal Government commissioned its solar hybrid power plant at Bayero University Kano (BUK), a multi-billion-naira investment awarded to a German…
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INVESTIGATION: Bloodbath at Tudun Wada, in Kano as residents witness black Sunday
By Elijah Akoji
A black Sunday, February 26th, 2023 remained fresh in the memory of most residents of Tudun-Wada local government area of Kano State with the mayhem visited on the people over a National Assembly election that took place a…
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Cash Crunch: Sokoto, Kebbi communities abandon naira for foreign currency
By Elijah Akoji
As the cash crunch bites harder and hardship deepens, Nigerians in border communities in some states in the North West are settling for currencies of other countries for transactions. In this investigation across Sokoto and…
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