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Investigation: How Imaginary Streetlights Were Allegedly Used To Steal Over A Billion Naira Under Buhari’s Nose

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  • January 7, 2022

By Elijah Ojonicko Akoji, Wikkitimes Four out of the five contractors that received over N1 billion for the installation of solar streetlights in Adamawa State are the same individuals but the projects were allegedly never executed, according to an investigation by WikkiTimes. President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior special assistant on Sustainable Development Goals, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adedulire,

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How Multi-Million Naira Constructed Skill Acquisition Centers Were Left To Ruin In Bauchi

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  • January 5, 2022

By Idris Kamal Ibrahim, WikiTimes In 2019, the federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour, and Productivity, released about N20.8 million for the construction of a skills acquisition center bungalow in Gamawa, Bauchi State.  Data obtained from Open Treasury Portal, an open contracting site of the Federal Government of Nigeria, indicates that G-Men

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Breaking News Education Investigation

Cross River SUBEB Colludes With Contractors To Divert School Project To Cover Up Alleged Corruption

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  • December 1, 2021

By Patrick Obia In Cross River State’s 2019 budget, over N145 million was earmarked for new classrooms at PCN Primary School Ikot Ishie in Calabar Municipality while more than 7 million was budgeted for a motorised borehole in the school under the model school project of the State.  The contracts were eventually awarded through the

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Alleged Corruption: Court Discharges Ex UNICAL Bursar, Peter Agi, Wife

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  • November 25, 2021

By Jonathan Ugbal A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu has discharged the former bursar of t he University of Calabar, Peter Agi over alleged acts of corruption. Agi, was discharged on Thursday after the prosecution filed a letter from the University of Calabar which said they were

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BREAKING: Police Invite Leaders Of Suspended UCTH Interns Ahead Of Protest

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  • October 4, 2021

By Archibong Jeremiah Ahead of planned peaceful protest, the Cross River State Police Command has invited leaders aggrieved interns of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) for dialogue. The UCTH interns are currently preparing to exercise their fundamental rights to press home their demand to the management of the hospital who sacked them for

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INVESTIGATION: How Meter Racketeering By AEDC Officials Frustrate Bid To End Estimated Billing

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  • October 1, 2021

By Tayo Olu, The Whistler September 26 was an unusual day for a nursing mother (names withheld) who left her baby at home and hurried to submit an application for a prepaid meter at the office of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) in Kagini, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory. She needed a prepaid

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Investigation: How Cross River State Magistrate Perverts Justice, Exploits His Office For Personal Gain

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  • September 30, 2021

By Archibong Jeremiah A Cross River Magistrate forcefully seized, impounded and sold a car belonging to a defendant’s friend in order to recover money owed by the defendant. The defendant in the case with suit No. IKM/RTM/12/2019, Mr. Loveday Eke had driven his friend’s car to the courthouse on May 10, 2019  when his friend’s

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Chinese-Run Company Aided By Government Officials Exports Charcoal And Timber Despite Ban, Threatening Nigeria’s Forests

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  • September 28, 2021

By Chikezie Omeje, SaharaReporters In May 2019, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, or NESREA, ordered a Chinese-run factory in the southeastern Nigerian state of Enugu to cease operation over illegal charcoal production and export. NESREA, established in 2007 by the Nigerian government to enforce environmental laws, said it would prosecute Kwo-Chief Investment Limited for

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