Chief Isiaq Ajibola, a board member of the Daily Trust Foundation, has called on Nigerian journalists to hold state governments accountable by tracking and scrutinising their budgets. Speaking at a training session on budget tracking and public investigation in Enugu…
President Bola Tinubu has requested an upward revision of the proposed 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, citing additional revenue generated by key government agencies. In a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, which was read during plenary on Wednesday,…
Residents in Kaduna and surrounding areas remain without power as KAEDCO workers strike over unpaid pensions and poor working conditions. The protest, led by the National Union of Electricity Employees, claims that over 900 workers have been affected, though KAEDCO…
It was 6:30 am, and while the harmattan breeze was blowing, a group of teenage girls, seated by the roadside around ‘Tashan Shongo,’ along Bauchi Road in the Jekadafari area of Gombe metropolis, were waiting for potential farm owners. The…
Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) of University Teaching Hospitals and Federal Medical Centres (FMCs) have raised the alarm that tertiary health hospitals are facing threats of becoming empty as doctors, nurses and other skilled health workers leave in droves due to…
Thirteen-year-old Nura Muhammad’s past is scarred by trauma. He fled his village in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State after the community was invaded by a group of terrorists, leaving him without parents or a home. Nura had…
The presiding officers of the National Assembly—Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker Abbas Tajudeen, and their deputies, Barau Jibrin and Ben Kalu – were allocated N10 billion for rent and furniture in the 2024 supplementary budget of the FCT, PREMIUM TIMES…
The Daily Trust Foundation organized a 3-day training for journalists in the Northwest zone aimed at enhancing their skills in investigative reporting. The training, funded by MacArthur Foundation,was organized to equip young journalists with the tools to perform investigative reporting…
Hussaini Hassan was a nomadic cattle herder who moved his livestock to various parts of Nigeria, including Benue and Kwara, in search of greener pastures, but in the last three years, he settled at the Paikon-Kore grazing reserve in Gwagwalada…
