Some state governors are spending billions of naira to hire private jets despite dwindling resources in their states, an investigation by Daily Trust on Sunday has shown. Findings revealed that only a few governors use commercial flights to travel to Abuja and other…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from MacArthur Foundation, has organized a workshop on news reporting, news writing, and copy-editing. The workshop which was held at the Daily Trust Foundation Training Hall began on Monday, April 26, 2021, and ended…
Nigerians have continued to pay for the power supply but have not seen enough of that in the past five years, with electricity tariff rising as economic indices worsen. Although the power sector was privatized on November 1, 2013, to…
Residents of Geidam now live in fear following the five-day occupation of their town by Boko Haram insurgents. The terrorists have attacked the town located in the northern part of Yobe State four times this year alone. Even though the…
State water boards or authorities were primarily established to manage water services in the metropolitan areas of individual states. They ensure the supply of potable water in urban areas as well as control and manage all waterworks and groundwater in…
When about 30 armored vehicles procured from around the world arrived at the battle-front, military high commands in Abuja thought that would soon turn the tide in the intractable insurgency in the northeast part of the country. Soon, a tally…
A N720 billion swap deal for at least 15 billion Renminbi (Yuan) currency between Nigeria and China has recorded a slow pace three years after the initiative was launched. This has left more Nigerian importers on the China route facing…
With an estimated population of over 24 million people, Lagos State has a daily water requirement of about 750m gallons a day, but the production capacity of all the waterworks spread across the state is less than 300m gallons a…
Bandits who abducted an unspecified number of students from the Greenfield University Kaduna on Tuesday have murdered three of the students and dumped their remains near the school premises. The killings have sparked outrage from right groups and fears among…
Security personnel deployed to man key Nigerian land borders have not been paid their mandatory allowance for 10 months, multiple sources involved in the operation told Daily Trust. An inter-agency operation tagged Joint Border Drill Operation was jointly piloted by the…
