Winners in educational competitions in Nigeria have been poorly rewarded, compared with those in entertainment competitions. Entertainment competitions receive more coverage, attention, and sponsorship while participants of educational contests languish in misery. As the Big Brother Naija reality TV show,…
For some years, schools in Nigeria have been at the centre of attacks by kidnappers. The attacks, which led to abductions of students, also destroyed many lives and homes. Hundreds of students still in captivity, including some Chibok girls, abducted…
Kidnappers operating in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are becoming more daring by the day as they have started collecting ransom from their victims via bank accounts contrary to their usual style of receiving cash, Daily Trust reports. Last week alone, Daily Trust reported…
Farmers in crisis-prone areas are finding it difficult to access their farmlands due to the spate of insecurity. Daily Trust Saturday reports their plight in some of the affected states with many of them saying there would be a food…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, has commissioned its training facility. The commissioning of the hall was done on Monday, July 5, 2021 by the Director (Africa) MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Kole Shettima, with support from board…
In the last seven years, various courts have awarded the sum of N836.318bn (N98.318 billion and over $1.8billion) to oil-producing communities in Niger Delta as compensations for oil spills and land encroachment, independent data seen by Daily Trust on Sunday…
To ameliorate the effect of poverty on the educational progress of Kano school children, the Kano State Government introduced a sponsorship scheme to pay for the senior secondary school certificate examination of students that secure at least five credits in…
For the umpteenth time, hundreds of passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna train service were stranded in the bush recently after the train developed a fault minutes after leaving Rigasa Station in Kaduna State. Daily Trust examines the recurring breakdown of the…
Across the country, the number of out-of-school children is increasing, majorly due to insecurity, poor facilities, poverty, and other factors. Daily Trust visited schools in some states and now reports. Apart from challenges in public schools that have been there…
The escalating incidence of petrol smuggling across Nigeria’s borders is put at a whopping 42 million liters per day, raising Nigeria’s estimated daily consumption of 60 million liters to 102 million. This has forced the country to spend between N140…
