Nigeria’s grim poverty profile — with the World Bank projecting the number of poor citizens to hit 95.1 million in 2022 — makes access to justice for many low-income earners herculean. This is worsened by the police force’s many extortionist practices that continue to keep the agency out of reach of the common man. TheCable’s […]
CONTINUE READING →Jethro Yacim, a retired police officer in his early 60s, sat in front of the first floor of his storey building with his index finger scrolling through his smartphone. The ground floor has been overrun by water. Behind the house were other landed properties he laboured for over 35 years to acquire with his wife. […]
CONTINUE READING →His near future was already planned. Nineteen-year-old Karibu Hassan was looking forward to the harvesting season and had planned how he would put the money realised from the proceeds of the farm he inherited from his parents to good use. He wanted to find a young lady to marry and start a family. Everything was […]
CONTINUE READING →Across several communities in Ogun state, the federal government’s Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) is improving access to healthcare, but its success is threatened by insecurity, shortage of personnel and low awareness. On a drab Tuesday morning in July, Ibidun Ajibade, a staff at Igan health centre in Ijebu-East LGA, Ogun state, wore a […]
CONTINUE READING →Across several communities in Ogun state, the federal government’s Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) is improving access to healthcare, but its success is threatened by insecurity, shortage of personnel and low awareness. On a drab Tuesday morning in July, Ibidun Ajibade, a staff at Igan health centre in Ijebu-East LGA, Ogun state, wore a […]
CONTINUE READING →It was about 11am in Sokoto. It had just stopped raining and the skies were still somewhat cloudy. A middle-aged woman dressed in a white, long hijab, walked swiftly into the well-lit room and sat on an empty bed beside the window, all ready to share her story. With a calm smile on her face, […]
CONTINUE READING →Esther Olarenwaju was 10 years old when she was returning home from an errand to buy a sachet of pure water on a rainy day in June 2019. Unfortunately, she slipped and fell inside one of the huge gullies that dominated the landscape of the Gafaru community located in the Ikotun axis, Alimosho LGA of […]
CONTINUE READING →Forced to flee their homes and settle as internally displaced persons (IDP) in camps, many young girls in Benue state keep risking their lives with unsafe abortions, while others decide to keep the pregnancy and become teenage mothers. CLAIRE MOM details the hurdles that young girls encounter in the absence of safe sexual and reproductive […]
CONTINUE READING →In 2011, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) noted that — as a matter of emergency — before any clean-up exercise is done in Ogoniland, in Rivers state, potable water should first be provided. But the government agency in charge of the project began land remediation without providing water. After widespread criticisms, […]
CONTINUE READING →Nigeria could have avoided the liability of $30 million monthly “take or pay” deal with Azura Power that has now put the country under serious financial constraint, according to Mohammed Bello Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation. The house of representatives committee on finance is currently probing the deal. Azura demanded the country guarantee to […]
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