After 22 attempts, CrimeFacts’s Pascal selected for ICIR contract fellowship

  Ibe Pascal, Investigative Reporter with an online newspaper, crimefacts.news has been selected to participate in the 2023 Open Contract Reporting Fellowship organized by the International Center For Investigative Reporting,…

2023: Vote-Buying— Hunger, Naira Scarcity, Other Factors

  The 2022 primary and gubernatorial elections in Nigeria brought to the fore the reality of vote buying. According to news reports, delegates to the primary elections of the two…

INSECURITY: Going to 2023 polls in fears

  Five days to Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, fears of insecurity in some parts of the country and the credibility of the electoral process may affect the turnout…

PDP crisis getting messier

By Ibe Pascal Arogorn The crisis currently rocking the People’s Democratic Party, PDP is getting messier, Ibe Pascal Arogorn writes from Owerri. On Monday, the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Delta North…

Tribunal dismisses suit challenging DStv, GOtv subscription price hike

  A Competition and Consumer Protection (CCP) tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit challenging the price increase by MultiChoice Nigeria Limited. Multichoice owns satellite television services, DStv and…

CRARN dedicates int’l freedom award to gov Udom 

~~ Describes Akwa Ibom as the most peaceful state in Africa — Describes Nigeria Police as most child friendly institution in the world A charity group in Nigeria, the Child’s…

THE AFTERMATH: How Nigerians who escaped Russia-Ukraine war are faring in Europe

  Paul Umuche, a 26-year-old Nigerian student, heard a huge explosion from his apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. He peeked through the window but was not sure where the…

EARTH DAY: Be The Change We All Want, PFFN Writes Nigerian Parents

  Group, Parents for Future Nigeria (PFFN) has written to Nigerian parents on Friday in support of the International Mother Earth Day. This is coming soon after the Global Strike…

EARTH DAY: Be The Change We All Want, PFFN Writes Nigerian Parents

  A Group, Parents For Future Nigeria (PFFN) has written to Nigerian parents on Friday in support of the International Mother Earth Day. This is coming soon after the Global…

Trial Of Mompha For Money Laundering Adjourned

  The trial of Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha, and his company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos…

No Valentine celebration for Imo communities

  A bleak Valentine celebration awaits Imo state as more than 18 council areas of the state may be on lockdown, as residents are forced to sit-at-home every Monday in…

Rights activist, Dede Uzor pays over N300,000 for indigent patients in Ebonyi State

…..calls for special FG, State Governments health policy for the poor The Executive Director of Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE), Dede Uzor A Uzor, has called…

INVESTIGATION: Why There‘re No Public Cemeteries In Igboland

By Steve Uzoechi Birth, death marriage and even how and where the dead are buried are said to be part of cultures of a people. In Igboland it is a…

FENRAD: Federal Roads in Southeast Makes the Region a Rathole

Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD (as acronymed), being an environmental rights, a pro-democracy and not-for-profit group, laments the deplorable state of many federal roads in the Southeast…

Former Delta State AG, Dafe Akpedeye, SAN, Passes On

The former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Delta State, Mr. Dafe Jude Akpedeye SAN, is dead This is contained in a statement signed by the NBA Effurun Branch Chairman, Jonathan…