Category: TNG investigations
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Analysis: Why Nigerians choose struggling abroad with multiple jobs over unemployment
In recent years, a growing number of Nigerians have been opting to leave their home country and seek opportunities abroad, even if it means taking on multiple and often menial jobs. The idea of a better life and greater economic opportunities abroad, often portrayed through social media and success stories of those who have emigrated,…
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Analysis: Nnamdi Kanu’s letter deepens South East sit-at-home dilemma
As tensions rise in Nigeria’s South East region, the two-week sit-at-home order scheduled to commence on Monday, July 31st, has become a subject of controversy. Last week, compliance with the order led to tragic consequences as protests erupted in Enugu, resulting in the loss of at least two lives. The situation has been further compounded…
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Analysis: Tinubu’s poverty plan underestimated, inadequate
Recent figures released by the National Social Safety-Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO) further raise doubts about the adequacy of the social welfare plan proposed by the Tinubu-led administration. According to NASSCO’s report, there are 15.7 million economically insecure households registered in the National Social Registry, which translates to over 60 million individuals facing economic hardship and…
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Fact Check Report: Did Justice Ugo of the Presidential election tribunal resign?
There have been claims that one of the Justices presiding over the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) has tendered his resignation from the bench, citing pressures from the executive. The purported resignation emanated from a report published by the Igbo Times Magazine on Wednesday 19th July, 2023, where it claimed that Justice Boloukuoromo M. Ugo…
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Shattered lives and unseen struggles: Unmasking religious violations against women and girls in Nigeria
Nigeria, a country with a constitutional guarantee for freedom of religion, is seeing a continuous rise in religious violations that threatens the rights of its citizens, especially religious minorities.
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On why Gov Okowa did not construct roads in Warri
For years, residents lived with the menace of perennial flooding in Uvwie, Warri and the environs. During the rainy season, Enerhen junction, PTI road, Uti road, refinery road, Ugbuwangue community and many other places in the Warri metropolis were a nightmare.
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May 29: Fresh trouble for Tinubu over dual citizenship allegation
More revelations have surfaced indicting Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of perjury when he stated in the INEC EC9 declaration form submitted to the Commission that he has not obtained any other citizenship. A photo of a Guinean passport purportedly issued to Tinubu on October 6 2015, has been circulated on social media, along with…
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Special Report: Poor Regulation Undermines Nigeria’s Race to Zero Routine Flaring by 2030
Nigeria is a signatory to the 2001 Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership principles that aim at a flare-out date of 2030, but the country’s race to zero routine flaring by the end of the decade is been undermined by inconsistent policies, weak implementation and apparent lack of political will by successive administrations. Gas flaring is…
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Fuel subsidy removal: Nigerians divided as FG seeks to spend $800m loan on palliative
Nigeria has in recent months come under pressure to end its controversial subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol. This is even more so as the Ghana National Petroleum Authority announced last month that it had removed the country’s fuel subsidy in response to global oil and petrol market volatility caused by…
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Special Report: WHO75: Bridging the gap in access to mental health care
In recent years, there has been increasing acknowledgement of the important role mental health plays in achieving global development goals, as evidenced by the inclusion of mental health in the Sustainable Development Goals. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes mental health as a “state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own…