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Untold Story Of Almajiri Schools Left For Ruins In Bauchi

By Idris Kamal Ibrahim, WikkiTimes Over a decade after the Federal Government constructed and handed over Tsangaya Model Schools to SUBEB in Bauchi, WikkiTimes uncovered that Almajiri pupils grapple with hunger and labor as proprietors struggle to meet their needs.  Abdulmalik Umar, a 14-year-old native of Zaranda-Gari, Toro local government area, Bauchi State, enrolled as

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Investigation: Contractor Denies Getting N60m Contract Refugee Commission Purportedly Awarded

By Elijah Akoji, SOLACEBASE SOLACEBASE in this investigation uncovers how the National Commission for Refugees awarded a N60 million contract to an oil and gas company to supply tricycles and grinding machines to the people of Boi and Lusa communities in Bogoro LGA of Bauchi State.  In addition, the company did not execute the project

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INVESTIGATION: In Bauchi, Access to Potable Water is Crippling Basic Education

By Usman Babaji, WikkiTimes The lack of safe drinking water in various schools across Bauchi State is threatening the sustainability of basic and qualitative education (Sustainable Development Goal 4). It is crippling the attainment of the United Nations SDG Goal, being implemented by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the local actors. The WikkiTimes,

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How Clerics Influence Voters’ Choice Of Candidates In Bauchi

By Usman Babaji, WikkiTimes Several voters in Bauchi State will make their decisions about who to elect into various positions based on what they have heard preached in their respective worship centres. The religious metric has been condemned and described as divisive, but it still plays out in the political decision-making of some congregations led

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Bauchi Flood Victims Face Disfranchisement After Losing Voter Cards  

By Idris Kamal A few weeks to Nigeria’s general elections, many residents of the Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State who voted in previous elections are still uncertain about exercising their voting rights this time around. Their possible disfranchisement is not of their making. A devastating flood that swept away homes in many parts

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How Bauchi Politicians Betray Trust, Plunder State’s Forest Reserves

By Haruna Mohammed Salisu, WikkiTimes In Ningi in Bauchi State, local politicians are enabling massive felling of trees in forest reserves despite Nigeria’s pledge to protect its forests and stop deforestation as part of the country’s measures to combat climate change. In Ningi, Chairman of the local government area, Mamuda Hassan Tabla is aiding and abetting

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1 Billion Naira Fraud: We Stand By Our Story, See You In Court – WikkiTimes To Dogara

By CrossRiverWatch Admin An online news platform WikkiTimes has insisted that, its story detailing how the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) squandered a N1 Billion constituency project is true, accurate and credible. The investigation revealed how N1 Billion constituency projects nominated by the former

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WikkiTimes Publisher, Family Threatened After Exposing Dogara’s 1 Billion Naira Shoddy Constituency Project

By Admin Haruna Mohammed Salisu, publisher of WikkiTimes, an online newspaper, and his family have been threatened following the publication of an investigative report exposing how Yakubu Dogara, a former Speaker of the House of Representative and Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) squandered N1 billion constituency school projects. The investigation revealed that the former Speaker

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