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Ojochenemi: The story of a ‘Bello Ambassador’ killed over suspected thuggery in Anyigba on election day

By Editor March 1, 2023 215 0

By Daniel Adaji The story of Akaiba Ojochenemi who was killed for allegedly snatching ballot boxes at a polling unit in Dekina area of Kogi State has gone viral on the social media and other media platforms. The incidence which took place on 25 February 2023 has received cold reactions from the appropriate quarters. The […]Continue Reading

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No, never again in Kogi East Senatorial District

By Editor March 1, 2023 146 0

By Theophilus Abbah, PhD   Just three months after the third anniversary of the gruesome murder, the sacrifice, the burning alive of Mrs Salome Abu in Ochadamu, her ancestral home, in Kogi State, on the altar of politics to lubricate the undeserved victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November, 2019 Kogi governorship […]Continue Reading

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Call for application: ICIR Open Contract Reporting Project (OCRP) 2023

By Editor February 7, 2023 178 0

The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) is calling for applications from suitable and qualified journalists for the second phase of its Open Contract Reporting Project (OCRP). The OCPR is an accountability reporting project of the Centre that seeks to promote fiscal transparency and accountability in the budget and procurement processes in Nigeria. In Continue Reading

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2023: Here are 107 communities where elections are endangered

By Editor February 6, 2023 202 0

By Daniel Adaji Key points: Bandits, terrorists and secessionists have continued to unleash terror few days to the elections In many rural communities there will be voter apathy for fear of bandits and terrorists Security forces may be deployed in highly volatile communities What the law says INEC must do if there is violence Why […]Continue Reading

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Poverty and Buhari’s victory in 2019 presidential election

By Theophilus Abbah February 5, 2023 390 0

Was it by coincidence that President Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the February 23 presidential election, defeated his opponent Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a result of poverty in Nigeria? Available data on the website of the National Bureau of Statistics shows that Buhari got overwhelming votes […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria | Death by tax collector

By Editor January 31, 2023 194 0

Theophilus Abbah At 2 AM on March 28th 2022 Olanrewaju Suraju, the head of the Human and Environmental Development Agency (HEDA), was asleep beside his wife in their bedroom in Abuja when they suddenly found themselves under attack by men who had broken into the house. The men, who made off with laptops, mobile phones, […]Continue Reading

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Cry Freedom

By Editor January 31, 2023 116 0

Repression and resistance: how a new generation challenges African autocrats and their international allies A transnational investigation by Ngina Kirori, Emmanuel Mutaizibwa, Chief Bisong Etahoben, Elizabeth BanyiTabi, Theophilus Abbah and Brezh Malaba ‘It’s your man who did this!’ shouts a woman at a village meeting in Nakuru County, Kenya. She is filmed by Kenyan Continue Reading

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Nigeria will not be left behind in technology – Osinbajo

By Editor January 17, 2023 130 0

VP headlines Interswitch 20th anniversary event in Lagos *Says Africa is next frontier in innovations  With the rapid growth of innovation and technology recorded over the years globally, there are even more exciting new frontiers to be explored and harnessed by Nigeria’s talented and enterprising young entrepreneurs. This was the view of Vice President Yemi […]Continue Reading

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Data shows Nigerian youths could determine outcome 2023 elections

By Theophilus Abbah January 11, 2023 217 0

By Daniel Adaji On the average, the number of youths with PVCs is 40 million, a figure that is higher than the number of votes cast in any of the presidential elections since 1999.   If the majority of Nigerian youths who are registered voters would march to their polling units to cast their votes […]Continue Reading

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2023: How to read Obasanjo’s momentous letter to youth

By Editor January 7, 2023 199 Post a comment

Players in the 2023 political game are agitated at former President Obasanjo’s New Year letter to youths, but multiple data prove  that Obasanjo was nationalistic by writing it. By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Key points: Media focus contributed to the misreading of Obasanjo’s letter to youth Youths, who constitute to highest voting population, suffer from bad […]Continue Reading

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False Claim on Tinubu attributed to the Nigerian Fact-Checkers Coalition

By Editor December 16, 2022 117 Post a comment

By Daniel Adaji The attention of the Nigerian Fact-Checkers Coalition (NFC) has been drawn to a disturbing false claim attributed to our team of fact-checkers. The bogus fact-check card, now going viral on social media, had passed a verdict that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, “inherited great real […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria FactCheckers’ Coalition joins Arise News Presidential Town Hall Series

By Editor November 12, 2022 127 0

Nigeria FactCheckers’ Coalition joins Arise News Presidential Town Hall Series The Nigerian FactCheckers’ Coalition (NFC)), as part of its civic responsibility to combat disinformation in Nigeria. Will be participating in the Arise News Presidential Town Hall meeting scheduled for Sunday, November 13, 2022. The coalition will conduct a live fact-checking of claims and Continue Reading