A civic technology organisation, Citizen Monitors, has launched a tech tool to empower voters and observers in the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election to verify election results in real time. The new election-monitoring web app is designed to let citizens document and verify what happens at polling units during the governorship election. According to a […]

Residents of Egbuoma Autonomous Community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State have issued a 30-day pre-legal action notice to the Governor Chukwuma Soludo-led Anambra State government over alleged “repeated cross-border attacks, abductions, and killings” by operatives of the dreaded Uli Central Vigilante Group operating from Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. The

A SaharaReporters’ review of the Federal Allocation Account Committee (FAAC) data released by the Office of the Accountant General and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that the total amount yet to be released to the state government stands at ₦73.7billion.  The figure represents the withheld funds for the period between March and August

A SaharaReporters’ review of data published by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that Rivers State, under the leadership of former Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas (retd), received N401.9 billion during his time in charge.  The payments were made to the

   

A civic group, MonITng, under the Civic Accountability Platform, has called on Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, to urgently address what it described as the “decay of public education” across the state, following the collapse of the LGEA Primary School in Gyastuwa, Sandada Ward, Bakori Local Government Area. In a statement addressed to the governor

A Delta-born investigative journalist, Tega Oghenedoro, popularly known as Fejiro Oliver, has filled a N1billion lawsuit against the state governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, Senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Ede Dafinone and Executive Director, Business Development of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Stella Okotete, at the federal court, Asaba. Also named in the suit challenging the

Some families and loved ones of the victims of Tuesday’s killings in Akinlalu, Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State, have begun to narrate harrowing accounts of how their relatives were shot dead by operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, popularly known as Amotekun. No fewer than five persons were reportedly killed, while

A group of 2022 retirees from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) have cried out over what they described as their “deliberate exclusion in the proper payment of terminal benefits and entitlements” by the management of the commission. In the letter, signed by Comrade Olukayode Joseph, the group coordinator of the Joint NIMC Pensioners, the