Trending News: REPORT: More Than Half of Nigeria’s IDPs Are MinorsCanada’s IRCC Denies Grieving Nigerian Family Visas to Bury SiblingsUDUS — Nigerian University Locked in a Spell of Open DefecationUPDATED: Court Denies Yahaya Bello Bail22 Days to Year End, 7 States Hide Q3 Budget Performance Despite Binding LawsALERT: Arcane Trade Uses Kadaria Ahmed’s Name, Face in Fraudulent AdSPOTTED: NASS Website Has Church ‘Prophetic Alert’ in Place of Senate ProceedingRetiring Ogun CP Failed to Spot Clue, Nab Finance Director’s Killers in 12 MonthsCALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Jahman Anikulapo Public Interest Journalism FellowshipFrom Refusal to Denial… Canadian Boss Withholds Nigerian Editor’s $441.48BREAKING: Dele Farotimi Granted N50m BailBREAKING: Thugs Disrupt Edo Gov Tribunal Pre-Hearing, Chase Attendees Away‘Have Some Shame’ — Mahmood Yakubu Under Fire for Saying ‘Ghana Learnt From Nigeria’We’re Still Investigating Air Peace, Confirms FCCPCPolice Have Stolen Tens of Millions From Nigerians in 2024 — And It’s Not Yet ChristmasLagos Resident Wants IKEDC to Write Off Outrageous N304,876 Bill Imposed on Him Before Handing Him Prepaid MeterDefamation Suit Filed by IGP Against Dele Farotimi Not A Crime In Ekiti, Says OdinkaluAfter EQ's Story, GTB Returns Lagos Businessman’s $100Despite Woeful Revenue Generation in 2024, Jigawa Proposes N698bn 2025 BudgetHow Anambra Waste Collectors Broke Resident Okechukwu Akaneme’s Spinal CordOndo Police Arrest Innocent FUTA Student, Force Him to Pay N25,000 for His Freedom‘They’re Damaging My Reputation’ — Smuggler ‘Ope Oloko’ Causes Police to Arrest Relatives of ‘Whistleblowers’ Tortured by CustomsEFCC Storm Benin City Club Rave in GRA was under siege last night by ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION. EFCCVideo – Over 20 EFCC Agents Storm Benin City 16 Apartment Residential Building @4AM ! On Same road as Former Chief Of Staff to Obaseki Residence . Storm Popular GRA Night Club RaveHow Nigerian Teenager Was Trafficked to Burkina Faso, Turned Into Sexual Object at Mining SiteLagos Police Assault Petty Trader, Force Him to Pay N360,000 for Fraud He Knew Nothing AboutNigerians Slam ‘Shameful’ Army Chief Wife’s Official Portrait Post on Social MediaUPDATED: IGP Files 12 More Charges Against FarotimiGTBank Says It Can’t Refund Customer Who Lost N72,900 to Unauthorised DebitDana Air Yet to Refund Abuja Resident’s N73,080 for Flight Cancelled 8 Months AgoArmy Silent Following News of Okuama Leader’s Death in Its Custody‘Girls, Stop Doing Hookup’ — Police Continue to Reinforce Victim Blaming CultureECOWAS Court Orders FG to Pay Torture Victim N5m, Fish Out Erring Ogun PoliceFLASHBACK: In 2019, Wike Accused GOC of Army’s 6 Div of Stealing Crude OilHow Dele Farotimi’s Arrest Breaks Laws, Violates RightsOne Year After Fall, Ex-Dangote Refinery Scaffolder Fights to LiveExperts Stress FG’s Responsibility to Tax Nigerians Through Reform Bills Without Incapacitating ThemSecond Strike in 3 Days, Bandits’ Explosives Cause Deaths on Zamfara RoadParents Paid N8m Ransom for Kidnapped Kaduna Children. They Reunited in Ribadu’s OfficeFLASHBACK: Afe Babalola Once Criticised DSS for Disregarding Due Process in Judges’ ArrestsFAAN MD Admits Airport Security Agents Give Returns of Corporate Begging to SupervisorsEXPLAINED: Proposed Tax Bills, What They Would Mean for NigeriansDele Farotimi Hurriedly Prosecuted, Sent to Prison in EkitiCustoms Names Officers Who Tortured Suspected Smuggling Whistleblowers but Army Conceals Soldiers’ IdentitiesEFCC Silent but Court Papers Show 753 Duplexes Belonged to EmefieleFLASHBACK: Just 24 Hours Ago, Dele Farotimi Said They Wanted To Silence HimJUST IN: Police Arrest Dele FarotimiVIDEO: Customs Officers Act as Smuggler Ope Oloko’s Agents, Torture Suspected Whistleblowers in BadagryStrangers Left Nigerian Toddler to Drown in Garden Bin After Mum Went to UK HospitalArmy Abducts Crypto Trader, Detains Him for 3 Weeks Without ExplanationIGP Describes FG’s Pardon of Minors as ‘Gesture of Magnanimity’NLC’s Indefinite Strike Hits 5 States Over New Minimum Wage ImplementationGIGM, Police Silent on Number of Abductees, Driver’s Status 2 Days After Kidnappers Attacked Bus in KogiBureaucracy Between Marine Ministry, NIWA Frustrates Firm Awarded 2023 Shipwreck Removal ContractFLASHBACK: How Soldiers Detained, Held Another Journalist for 2 WeeksNAFDAC Rejects Lagos Commissioner Tokunbo Wahab’s Misinformation on Viral Sachet Water ClipText Exposes Another Yabatech Lecturer’s N500-per-Student Extortion AttemptHYPPADEC Shortchanges Beneficiaries Who Should’ve Got Millions, Printers After 2-Year WaitDefence Chief Admits Soldiers’ Involvement in Drugs, Arms TraffickingYabatech Lecturer Akindele Omotosho Extorts ‘Ordinary N500’ From Students ‘for Dockets’Anthony Okocha Becomes APC Chairman in Rivers Despite Confessing He Rigged ElectionsArmed Criminals Ambush El-Kanemi Football Team in Bauchi, Police UnawareEsther Fadipe of ‘Slay With Funmi’ Blocks Osun Resident Who Paid N173,100 for Fashion ItemsFisayo Soyombo’s Words on How, Why Army Held Him Incommunicado for 3 DaysDismissed Edo Cop Edith Uduma Claims N1m Bribe Demand Was ‘Sarcastic’ Following Audio EvidenceDana Air Withholds Lagos Resident’s N518,200 Refund for 7 MonthsZulum Said Minors Should Have Been Punished for Protesting. He Pardoned ‘Repentant’ TerroristsEQ's Daniel Ojukwu Shortlisted for Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative ReportingEQ's Daniel Ojukwu Named 2024 WSAIR FinalistAnambra Community Residents Squeeze Through Bushes as Army Block Major RoadKillers of Ogun Finance Director Roam Freely One Year LaterImo Police Seize Furniture Maker’s Phone, Tell Him to Pay N70,000 to Bail ItAfter EQ's Story, Access Bank Credits Lagos Entrepreneur’s Dollar AccountVIDEO: Air Peace Customers Protest 4-Hour Flight Delay, Demand RefundCustoms Wants to ‘Study Judgment’ Before It Obeys Appeal Court’s Import Duties RulingBREAKING: Okonjo-Iweala Secures Second Term as WTO DGOsinbajo, Shettima Moved On From #EndSars Reports. Courts Could Strike ThemNo Funding, No Ambassadors for 14 Months Indicate Tinubu Cares Less About Foreign MissionsUPDATED: House of Reps Confirms Oluyede as New Army ChiefAmnesty Int’l Demands Public Apology From FG for ’24 Killed, 1,200 Arrested’ in #EndBadGovernance ProtestAUDIO: How Dismissed Edo Cop Edith Uduma Demanded N1m From Rapist Colleague to Bury CaseNiger Proposes N1.2trn 2025 Budget Despite Multi-Billion UnderperformanceEx-Minister Mamman Spent N20m Mambilla Fund to Lodge in Resort, Witness Tells CourtKidnappers of Kaduna Siblings Demand N300m Ransom, Threaten to Kill Toddler ‘Because of Disturbing Cries’Lagos Man Paid Expedia Consult’s Beverly Basil N4m for Canada Admission in 2023. She Disappeared With the Money4 Children Vanish From Kaduna Home, Parents Fear KidnappingNo Spokesperson, Quiet Socials, Unreachable Phones… DSS’ Deliberate InaccessibilityNo Justice for Police Brutality Victims 2 Years After Anambra Judicial Panel ReportHow Abuja Resident Tracked, Arrested Deadly Car Thieves Within 2 MonthsUPDATED: Court Remands Yahaya Bello Till December 10Tinubu Visits France Four Times in 2024 but Nigeria Hasn’t Seen Macron Since 2018FLASHBACK: Kogi Issued Statement to Defend Bello Against EFCC in MarchCourt Dismisses Case Seeking to Stop EFCC From Investigating Sanwo-OluJUST IN: Yahaya Bello in Court Following EFCC DetentionCBN Raises Interest Rate to 27.5% — Sixth Increase Under CardosoMTN Data Subscription Delay Leaves Customers Frustrated, StrandedJUST IN: Yahaya Bello Surrenders, in EFCC CustodyRegistered, Unassigned, Invalid: Investigating FRSC’s Unreliable Number Plate Verification PortalSanwo-Olu Suspends Media Aide Wale Ajetunmobi for Admitting #EndSars Protesters Were ‘Hunted Down and Executed’Embezzlement Question Arises as NEPC Withholds Funding From 2023 Export Mentorship Programme Finalists
Tue. Dec 10th, 2024
Trending News: REPORT: More Than Half of Nigeria’s IDPs Are MinorsCanada’s IRCC Denies Grieving Nigerian Family Visas to Bury SiblingsUDUS — Nigerian University Locked in a Spell of Open DefecationUPDATED: Court Denies Yahaya Bello Bail22 Days to Year End, 7 States Hide Q3 Budget Performance Despite Binding LawsALERT: Arcane Trade Uses Kadaria Ahmed’s Name, Face in Fraudulent AdSPOTTED: NASS Website Has Church ‘Prophetic Alert’ in Place of Senate ProceedingRetiring Ogun CP Failed to Spot Clue, Nab Finance Director’s Killers in 12 MonthsCALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Jahman Anikulapo Public Interest Journalism FellowshipFrom Refusal to Denial… Canadian Boss Withholds Nigerian Editor’s $441.48BREAKING: Dele Farotimi Granted N50m BailBREAKING: Thugs Disrupt Edo Gov Tribunal Pre-Hearing, Chase Attendees Away‘Have Some Shame’ — Mahmood Yakubu Under Fire for Saying ‘Ghana Learnt From Nigeria’We’re Still Investigating Air Peace, Confirms FCCPCPolice Have Stolen Tens of Millions From Nigerians in 2024 — And It’s Not Yet ChristmasLagos Resident Wants IKEDC to Write Off Outrageous N304,876 Bill Imposed on Him Before Handing Him Prepaid MeterDefamation Suit Filed by IGP Against Dele Farotimi Not A Crime In Ekiti, Says OdinkaluAfter EQ's Story, GTB Returns Lagos Businessman’s $100Despite Woeful Revenue Generation in 2024, Jigawa Proposes N698bn 2025 BudgetHow Anambra Waste Collectors Broke Resident Okechukwu Akaneme’s Spinal CordOndo Police Arrest Innocent FUTA Student, Force Him to Pay N25,000 for His Freedom‘They’re Damaging My Reputation’ — Smuggler ‘Ope Oloko’ Causes Police to Arrest Relatives of ‘Whistleblowers’ Tortured by CustomsEFCC Storm Benin City Club Rave in GRA was under siege last night by ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION. EFCCVideo – Over 20 EFCC Agents Storm Benin City 16 Apartment Residential Building @4AM ! On Same road as Former Chief Of Staff to Obaseki Residence . Storm Popular GRA Night Club RaveHow Nigerian Teenager Was Trafficked to Burkina Faso, Turned Into Sexual Object at Mining SiteLagos Police Assault Petty Trader, Force Him to Pay N360,000 for Fraud He Knew Nothing AboutNigerians Slam ‘Shameful’ Army Chief Wife’s Official Portrait Post on Social MediaUPDATED: IGP Files 12 More Charges Against FarotimiGTBank Says It Can’t Refund Customer Who Lost N72,900 to Unauthorised DebitDana Air Yet to Refund Abuja Resident’s N73,080 for Flight Cancelled 8 Months AgoArmy Silent Following News of Okuama Leader’s Death in Its Custody‘Girls, Stop Doing Hookup’ — Police Continue to Reinforce Victim Blaming CultureECOWAS Court Orders FG to Pay Torture Victim N5m, Fish Out Erring Ogun PoliceFLASHBACK: In 2019, Wike Accused GOC of Army’s 6 Div of Stealing Crude OilHow Dele Farotimi’s Arrest Breaks Laws, Violates RightsOne Year After Fall, Ex-Dangote Refinery Scaffolder Fights to LiveExperts Stress FG’s Responsibility to Tax Nigerians Through Reform Bills Without Incapacitating ThemSecond Strike in 3 Days, Bandits’ Explosives Cause Deaths on Zamfara RoadParents Paid N8m Ransom for Kidnapped Kaduna Children. They Reunited in Ribadu’s OfficeFLASHBACK: Afe Babalola Once Criticised DSS for Disregarding Due Process in Judges’ ArrestsFAAN MD Admits Airport Security Agents Give Returns of Corporate Begging to SupervisorsEXPLAINED: Proposed Tax Bills, What They Would Mean for NigeriansDele Farotimi Hurriedly Prosecuted, Sent to Prison in EkitiCustoms Names Officers Who Tortured Suspected Smuggling Whistleblowers but Army Conceals Soldiers’ IdentitiesEFCC Silent but Court Papers Show 753 Duplexes Belonged to EmefieleFLASHBACK: Just 24 Hours Ago, Dele Farotimi Said They Wanted To Silence HimJUST IN: Police Arrest Dele FarotimiVIDEO: Customs Officers Act as Smuggler Ope Oloko’s Agents, Torture Suspected Whistleblowers in BadagryStrangers Left Nigerian Toddler to Drown in Garden Bin After Mum Went to UK HospitalArmy Abducts Crypto Trader, Detains Him for 3 Weeks Without ExplanationIGP Describes FG’s Pardon of Minors as ‘Gesture of Magnanimity’NLC’s Indefinite Strike Hits 5 States Over New Minimum Wage ImplementationGIGM, Police Silent on Number of Abductees, Driver’s Status 2 Days After Kidnappers Attacked Bus in KogiBureaucracy Between Marine Ministry, NIWA Frustrates Firm Awarded 2023 Shipwreck Removal ContractFLASHBACK: How Soldiers Detained, Held Another Journalist for 2 WeeksNAFDAC Rejects Lagos Commissioner Tokunbo Wahab’s Misinformation on Viral Sachet Water ClipText Exposes Another Yabatech Lecturer’s N500-per-Student Extortion AttemptHYPPADEC Shortchanges Beneficiaries Who Should’ve Got Millions, Printers After 2-Year WaitDefence Chief Admits Soldiers’ Involvement in Drugs, Arms TraffickingYabatech Lecturer Akindele Omotosho Extorts ‘Ordinary N500’ From Students ‘for Dockets’Anthony Okocha Becomes APC Chairman in Rivers Despite Confessing He Rigged ElectionsArmed Criminals Ambush El-Kanemi Football Team in Bauchi, Police UnawareEsther Fadipe of ‘Slay With Funmi’ Blocks Osun Resident Who Paid N173,100 for Fashion ItemsFisayo Soyombo’s Words on How, Why Army Held Him Incommunicado for 3 DaysDismissed Edo Cop Edith Uduma Claims N1m Bribe Demand Was ‘Sarcastic’ Following Audio EvidenceDana Air Withholds Lagos Resident’s N518,200 Refund for 7 MonthsZulum Said Minors Should Have Been Punished for Protesting. He Pardoned ‘Repentant’ TerroristsEQ's Daniel Ojukwu Shortlisted for Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative ReportingEQ's Daniel Ojukwu Named 2024 WSAIR FinalistAnambra Community Residents Squeeze Through Bushes as Army Block Major RoadKillers of Ogun Finance Director Roam Freely One Year LaterImo Police Seize Furniture Maker’s Phone, Tell Him to Pay N70,000 to Bail ItAfter EQ's Story, Access Bank Credits Lagos Entrepreneur’s Dollar AccountVIDEO: Air Peace Customers Protest 4-Hour Flight Delay, Demand RefundCustoms Wants to ‘Study Judgment’ Before It Obeys Appeal Court’s Import Duties RulingBREAKING: Okonjo-Iweala Secures Second Term as WTO DGOsinbajo, Shettima Moved On From #EndSars Reports. Courts Could Strike ThemNo Funding, No Ambassadors for 14 Months Indicate Tinubu Cares Less About Foreign MissionsUPDATED: House of Reps Confirms Oluyede as New Army ChiefAmnesty Int’l Demands Public Apology From FG for ’24 Killed, 1,200 Arrested’ in #EndBadGovernance ProtestAUDIO: How Dismissed Edo Cop Edith Uduma Demanded N1m From Rapist Colleague to Bury CaseNiger Proposes N1.2trn 2025 Budget Despite Multi-Billion UnderperformanceEx-Minister Mamman Spent N20m Mambilla Fund to Lodge in Resort, Witness Tells CourtKidnappers of Kaduna Siblings Demand N300m Ransom, Threaten to Kill Toddler ‘Because of Disturbing Cries’Lagos Man Paid Expedia Consult’s Beverly Basil N4m for Canada Admission in 2023. She Disappeared With the Money4 Children Vanish From Kaduna Home, Parents Fear KidnappingNo Spokesperson, Quiet Socials, Unreachable Phones… DSS’ Deliberate InaccessibilityNo Justice for Police Brutality Victims 2 Years After Anambra Judicial Panel ReportHow Abuja Resident Tracked, Arrested Deadly Car Thieves Within 2 MonthsUPDATED: Court Remands Yahaya Bello Till December 10Tinubu Visits France Four Times in 2024 but Nigeria Hasn’t Seen Macron Since 2018FLASHBACK: Kogi Issued Statement to Defend Bello Against EFCC in MarchCourt Dismisses Case Seeking to Stop EFCC From Investigating Sanwo-OluJUST IN: Yahaya Bello in Court Following EFCC DetentionCBN Raises Interest Rate to 27.5% — Sixth Increase Under CardosoMTN Data Subscription Delay Leaves Customers Frustrated, StrandedJUST IN: Yahaya Bello Surrenders, in EFCC CustodyRegistered, Unassigned, Invalid: Investigating FRSC’s Unreliable Number Plate Verification PortalSanwo-Olu Suspends Media Aide Wale Ajetunmobi for Admitting #EndSars Protesters Were ‘Hunted Down and Executed’Embezzlement Question Arises as NEPC Withholds Funding From 2023 Export Mentorship Programme Finalists
Tue. Dec 10th, 2024
UDUS — Nigerian University Locked in a Spell of Open Defecation

Whenever 26-year-old Ibrahim Kasir felt the urge to excrete or urinate, the thought of the possible tendency of contracting diseases from using the public toilets in his school — Usmanu…

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Canada’s IRCC Denies Grieving Nigerian Family Visas to Bury Siblings

Eight members of the Aloysius household, a Nigeria-based family who just lost two of their children in an auto crash in Manitoba, Canada, have been denied emergency visitor visas to…

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REPORT: More Than Half of Nigeria’s IDPs Are Minors

More than half of Nigeria’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are children, a new report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed. The report, titled ‘Report of Internally Displaced…

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UPDATED: Court Denies Yahaya Bello Bail

A Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to grant bail to Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State, in his ongoing money laundering case involving over N100 billion.…

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22 Days to Year End, 7 States Hide Q3 Budget Performance Despite Binding Laws

Less than 22 days to the end of 2024, seven states — Rivers, Gombe, Kano, Kebbi, Ogun, Sokoto and Borno — have yet to publish their Budget Implementation Reports (BIRs)…

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Retiring Ogun CP Failed to Spot Clue, Nab Finance Director’s Killers in 12 Months

Abiodun Alamutu, the outgoing Commissioner of Police in Ogun State, has said his only regret during his tenure as CP is his failure to arrest the killers of Taiwo Oyekanmi,…

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SPOTTED: NASS Website Has Church ‘Prophetic Alert’ in Place of Senate Proceeding

The National Assembly website uploaded a church manual as its January 1, 1970 senate proceeding document. What EQ first found surprising on the Resources dropdown that leads to the ‘Votes…

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ALERT: Arcane Trade Uses Kadaria Ahmed’s Name, Face in Fraudulent Ad

In August, Nigerian journalist Kadaria Ahmed called attention to misleading articles and Facebook posts about her. These posts targeted unsuspecting social media users, luring them into fake cryptocurrency trading platforms.…

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Jahman Anikulapo Public Interest Journalism Fellowship

Are you an early-career journalist with an interest in public interest journalism? The Foundation for Investigative Journalism and Social Justice (EQ) is inviting applications for a one-year fellowship programme for…

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From Refusal to Denial… Canadian Boss Withholds Nigerian Editor’s $441.48

Rhonda Chieduch, a Canadian book publisher and owner of On The Way Books and More, a publishing outfit situated in Alberta, Canada, is yet to pay Daniel Fidelis, a Lagos…

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