Category: TNG investigations
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INVESTIGATION: Nigerians could pay over N460 per litre of petrol from July 2023
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2023 appropriation bill before the National Assembly in September, and the country’s projection to spend nearly N7 trillion naira on petrol subsidy is already unsettling lawmakers. Nigeria, the largest oil producer in Africa, is unable to benefit from the global surge in oil prices caused by the Russia-Ukraine…
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FACT CHECK: Chief of Defense Staff’s misleading claims on Owo church attack ‘suspect’
The Chief of Defence Staff Lucky Irabor announced during a media parley that joint operation between the Nigerian Army, Department of State Security (DSS), Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and other intelligence agencies, had led to the arrest of some suspected masterminds of the Owo Catholic Church attack.
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INVESTIGATION: How ‘Omo-oniles’, real-estate firms defraud Lagos residents
Owning a house of any size and in any location has become one of the most important success factors, given the high cost of purchasing a land, bureaucratic land registration process, devaluation of the naira which leads to high cost of building materials and the menace of land grabbers, popularly called ‘omo-oniles’ in Lagos state.…
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‘Go and Verify’: Claims made by Peter Obi that are false
The Labour Party’s Presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections Peter Obi has made several claims that have turned out to be false, despite his popular ‘Go and Verify’ campaign slogan. Obi, in the latest figures quoted, claimed that annual exports from Nigeria was less than $30 billion and we have over 100 million people…
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We bought more guns with N60 million ransom collected for release of Jangebe school girls, Zamfara bandit reveals
In north-western Nigeria ultra-violent bandit gangs raid villages, attack drivers, abduct schoolchildren and kill anyone who resists. At least 279 school girls were kidnapped from their school in Jangebe in Talata-Mafara LGA of Zamfara State on February 27 2021, but were released by their captors after about a week. The state government announced that the…
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INVESTIGATION: Nigeria’s school feeding programme derails as out-of-school children increase
Nigeria’s Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) introduced by the Federal Government in 2016, began in seven pilot states – Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun and Zamfara – but has now spread across 35 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Over nine million pupils in 54, 619 public primary schools are said to be…
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INVESTIGATION: How fertility clinics deceive women with cryptic pregnancies, increase paternity fraud in Nigeria
Paternity fraud, a situation where a man is incorrectly identified as the biological father of a child, has become more rampant in Nigeria and often occurs between unmarried couples where a father seeks to avoid financial liability for a child he does not believe to be his. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) investigation shows that in recent times,…
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Special Report: How persistent blood shortages, poverty drive blood black-market in Nigeria
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Nigeria needs at least two million pints of blood annually, a far cry from the 25, 000 it currently generates. Three months ago, a Federal Civil Servant residing in Abuja Louis Obafemi, was in search of blood for his wife who was due to have their baby in March.…
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INVESTIGATION: How Lagos Okada ban is affecting residents, SMEs; Igboho warns riders will revenge
The Lagos State Government says it is not slowing down reinforcement of the Lagos Traffic Law 2012 (as amended), which it embarked upon since June 1, 2022, despite resistance by commercial motorcycle operators and calls by some residents for the government to reconsider its position.
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Nigerian collects passport two weeks after calling out NIS for delay, extortion
A Nigerian man Fagemi Remi, unable to pay for his tuition abroad due to delays with getting his passport renewed, has now collected his travel document barely two weeks after he called out the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) FESTAC branch office for exceeding the average three weeks processing time for passport renewals/reissue. Remi had applied…