In the midst of the second wave of COVID-19, universities and other tertiary institutions resumed after months of closure. Authorities have tried to meet up with health protocols to ensure safety, but staff and students find it difficult to comply…
Following misinformation and disinformation on the social media on what transpired in Oyigbo, an oil-rich community in Nigeria’s Niger-Delta, during the #EndSARS protests in late 2020, Daily Trust set out on a fact-finding mission. In the wake of the #EndSARS…
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University invites applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, to be awarded in Spring 2021. In filling out the application below, please be succinct but specific and answer every question.…
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Monday, raised the alarm that Nigeria had reached a critical level where hospital capacity could no longer cope with more serious COVID-19 cases. According to him, health workers may…
Uba Bala Ringim, a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), was a Commissioner of Police when the dreaded Boko Haram was in its infancy in Borno State. In this interview, he spoke on the steps he took towards curtailing the…
‘We pay about N250,000 to police to drive against traffic’ We’ll report culprits to IGP – Sanwo-Olu Over 500,000 containers trapped Despite many actions taken by the Federal Government, including the disbandment of the Presidential Task Team for the Decongestion…
The 36 states of the federation have pegged N8.272 trillion for spending in 2021, just as 22 of them have raised their budgets by N1.3 trillion, while 14 cut theirs by N1.4 trillion, an analysis of the records have shown.…
Weeks after insurgents killed dozens of rice farmers in Koshobe village near Mafa Council, Maiduguri and Zabarmari have turned into a Mecca for condolence visits. Daily, dignitaries, including a presidential delegation, governors, ministers, legislators, development partners, and traditional rulers throng…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reopening of four land borders in three of the six geopolitical zones of the country with immediate effect. These include Seme border in the South- West, Illela and Maigatari borders in the North- West,…
By Theophilus Abbah The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, northern governors, and traditional rulers, some governors of southern states, and apologists of the Buhari administration have made social media regulation a sing-song after the recent EndSARS protests.…
