Daily Trust learned that while it took weeks to process an application of the ordinary Nigerian, VIPs get theirs within 24hrs… Getting the Nigerian International Passport is now shrouded in corruption, racketeering, and irregularities that see Nigerians paying 100 percent…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, has organized a three-day workshop titled ‘Understanding National and State Budgets.’ The workshop which was held at 3Js Hotels Ltd, started on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, and ended on Thursday,…
There are growing concerns in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, over water scarcity. Amidst the difficulty, the multi-million naira Panseke-Onikolobo Water Supply Scheme meant to supply water to a section of the state capital is lying fallow. Our correspondent captures the…
Nigeria’s refined petroleum products, especially the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol, is the ‘smuggle gold’ feeding Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Chad and Niger Republic, which all share border with Nigeria. According to reports and investigations by our reporters, the…
Police formations across the country are groaning under poor financing – a development that further cripples the police at a time of heightened internal security challenges. For the first quarter of this year, police commands and formations have not gotten…
The COVID-19 lockdown saw many domestic flights suffering with dozens of aircraft trapped at maintenance facilities abroad. The ease of the lockdown has coincided with exchange rates climbing and airlines struggling. Our correspondent analyses what is happening in the sector.…
The series of abductions of students in some states in Northern Nigeria is threatening the future of millions of children in the region, stakeholders told the Daily Trust on Monday. Boko Haram fighters, bandits, and other miscreants have found schools in some…
Elderly people in villages across the country have called on the federal government to give them special consideration in accessing the COVID-19 vaccine because of their vulnerability. Some of them said besides being very old, they had underlying illnesses like…
Justice for the victims of the December 2015 bloody clash in Zaria, Kaduna State, during which soldiers dislodged a Shi’ite worship centre and residence of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, has remained elusive…
International environmental activists have fingered Nigeria as one of the sources of trafficking pangolin. They claim that the animal is going into extinction because the Chinese smuggle them into China. In this report, Daily Trust reporter investigates the chain of…
