The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is enmeshed in a wide-scale certificate forgery and age falsification scandal, involving dozens of staff, Daily Trust authoritatively gathered. With much senior staff found to have been involved in the…
Bills for the establishment of 74 new federal health institutions are at various stages at the National Assembly, despite poor funding of the existing ones, Daily Trust can report. This is coming at a time the health ministry, which runs federal health…
Concerns are mounting among motorists across the country over rising cases of extortion and harassment by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at various checkpoints on highways in the pretext of examining the vehicle duty payment papers of…
When security men stormed her home in Malumfashi, Indo Abdullahi (not real name), was terrified. The aged widow was puzzled as to what could have been the reason for this welcomed visit by a detachment of armed personnel. With no…
Potholes and lane diversions are responsible for increased accidents as bandits take advantage of the slow pace of construction work on the Abuja-Kaduna highway to attack commuters, Daily Trust reports. Passengers and drivers who spoke to our correspondents lamented that most of…
Farmers in some states in the North have recorded low harvest on some grains due to early cessation of rainfall, a situation that has pushed up the prices of the grains compared to the same time last year. Farmers who…
On the 1st of November 2013, the Federal Government of Nigeria formally handed over acquisition certificates to private sector operators, marking the privatization of core assets in the power sector. That will be eight years on Monday 1st November…
While Nigeria battles insurgency, banditry, and other forms of criminal activities, little attention is paid to securing the country’s borders, especially the one with the Niger Republic – believed to be the major route of arms smuggling into the country.…
A Director of Media Trust Limited and former Editor-in-Chief of Daily Trust newspapers, Malam Mannir Dan-Ali, has stressed the need for continuous training of journalists in Nigeria. He spoke on Wednesday at the opening of a three-day multimedia/investigative reporting training organized by the Media…
Bandits operating in the eastern part of Sokoto State have imposed levies on the locals to pay before next Friday or risk attack, Daily Trust can report. A resident of the area revealed that locals are also barred from their farms by…
