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2024 Edo governorship election: pre-election fact-checks
Sep 20, 2024 · Claim 9. CLAIM: An X user, Akpakominza, claimed that Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Edo state, distributed a trailer load of rice hoarded by the incumbent Edo state’s governor, Godwin Obaseki. THE FINDINGS: The NFC ran a Reverse Image search on a keyframe from the video and verified that Mr Okpebholo is …
2024: Tackling Nigeria’s new, recurrent epidemics
Jan 6, 2024 · In its December 18, 2023 report, the Centre noted that Nigeria might have recorded the highest number of Lassa fever cases, with 8,542 suspected cases, 1,170 confirmed cases, and 200 deaths across 28 states.. Meanwhile, as of December 24, the number of suspected Lassa fever cases stood at 8978, out of which 1227 cases were confirmed, and 216 deaths were reported across 28 states.
[EXPLAINER] What does the law say about defamation?
Oct 8, 2024 · What is a defamation? is a question that followed the release of audio recordings by social media personality Martins Vincent Otse (VeryDarkMan), which alleges that Okuneye Idris (Bobrisky), a popular crossdresser, bribed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officers with N15 million to drop money laundering charges against him.. …
Insecurity: 2,336 Nigerians killed in Q1 2024
Apr 25, 2024 · At the beginning of the year, Vice President Kahsim Shettima said that President Bola Tinubu had approved N50 billion as the “Pulaaku Initiative”, a non-kinetic solution to deal with insurgency and banditry in the North.. However, the data gathered showed that the northern states have suffered more insecurity attacks in the quarter under review than the Southern region.
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Dayo Aiyetan is the founding Executive Director of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, Abuja.He was a senior associate editor and Abuja Bureau chief of TELL Magazine, Nigeria’s leading political weekly, until May 2010 when he resigned to set up the Centre. A graduate of Theatre Arts/English from the University of Ibadan, he started his journalism career as a Features ...
2023: A look at PVC collection process across Nigeria
Jan 13, 2023 · An additional 12.29 million citizens registered for the card between 2021 and July 31, 2022. Residents queue to collect PVC at the INEC office in Akko LGA Gombe State. Photo credit: The ICIR. According to the Commission, there are 84,004,084 registered voters in the country, representing over a third of the nation’s estimated 220 million people. ...
ICIR awards six outstanding OCRP fellows
Dec 10, 2024 · THE International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) has recognised six exceptional fellows at the closing ceremony of its Open Contracting Reporting Project (OCRP).. At the event, held on Tuesday, December 10 in Abuja, the executive director of The Investigator Journalism Development and Innovation Centre and publisher of The Investigator, Archibong Jeremiah Ojanga, emerged as the ...
What Trump's presidency means for Nigeria's economy
Nov 8, 2024 · However, this policy which has helped surge Nigeria’s bilateral trade with the United States to over $10.6bn could be halted as a result of Trump’s disposition to discontinue the policy in 2025.. 3. Energy Independence. Trump’s coming could also see more exploration of America’s oil and less purchase of Nigerian oil, informed analysts said.