Investigations

SPECIAL REPORT… In Borno, the scars of war run deep: Agony of lives shattered by Boko Haram
by in Crime & Reporting, Governance & Policy, Investigations

The stats are very troubling. The images out of Borno are even more horrifying! Late 2017, the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, informed the world that the crisis in Northeast Nigeria had created two million displaced persons and cost the si...

INVESTIGATION… Tour of Lagos LGs reveals tricks by INEC officials at frustrating voter registration
by in Crime & Reporting, Investigations, Rights & Advocacy

A report released in March 2018 by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), which showed that Lagos state had about 1,401,390 million PVC’s still in its possession and that just 5,095 had been collected since the commencement of distrib...

INSIDE KANU’S KINGDOM: The unresolved disappearances and untold story of imprisoned IPOB members
by in Crime & Reporting, Governance & Policy, Investigations

Since September last year, when the Nigerian army launched Operation Python Dance II – a military offensive in the South East region aimed at quelling the growing agitation for an independent Biafran state by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB),...

INVESTIGATION… NIMBO MASSACRE: Two years after, killers evade justice, govt abandons victims
by in Crime & Reporting, Investigations, Rights & Advocacy

By Patrick Egwu… In every conflict, people are always at the heart of it – from those who were killed, relatives of the deceased and chilling stories of survivors. Sadly, often times, the voices of these people are hardly heard as the power play by p...

Investigation… GAS FLARING: A story of wasted wealth and how a N/Delta community grapples with infertility
by in Environment, Health, Investigations

By Sunday Orji… “…Before the end of the third day, all the animals that took the water died“. The flares at Obrikom in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of RIvers State, never die. Fumes from high vertical flare stack stay steadfast in the air;...

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