Special Reports/ Interviews

International Equinox Earth Day Celebration 2024 Earth belongs to everyone

International Equinox Earth Day Celebration 2024: Earth belongs to everyone

Annually, there is a global international Equinox Earth Day Celebration to renew our collective commitment to honour the Earth and promote peace for all to live and enjoy the Earth that belongs to us all. As we celebrate the Equinox Earth Day on this 19th day of March 2024, we must hold on to our …

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Nigeria's Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency 

Nigeria’s Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency 

The Nigerian state’s non-compliance with disclosure continues to be a challenge confronting its extractive industry transparency. Nowhere does non-compliance happen like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), saddled with the responsibility of managing and harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas. The non-disclosure by the NPPC in the way it carries out activities in the extractive sector …

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SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides under PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability

SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides under PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability

Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited  (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard for accountability, says it is not under obligation to disclose its dealings and be accountable to the public in the way it operates. NNPCL made this known in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) …

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MAWA Foundation, DEDASRI begin Disclose the Deal Campaign

MAWA Foundation, DEDASRI begin Disclose the Deal Campaign

The Media Advocacy West Africa (MAWA-Foundation) and Divine Era Development and Social Rights Initiative (DEDASRI) Non-Governmental Organizations with funding support from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) on Thursday the 14th day of December 2023 commenced “Disclose the Deal Campaign Nigeria Project”. Disclose The Deal is a global campaign for the comprehensive disclosure of all contracts …

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Nigeria pursues property tax for Land Value Capture

Nigeria pursues property tax for Land Value Capture

The Nigerian state says it will pursue LAND VALUE CAPTURE through property tax as a way to raise money from land dealings for infrastructural development and to solve the housing deficit. The state says it will pursue LAND VALUE CAPTURE vigorously by charging owners of completed, unoccupied houses triple ground rents. Ground Rent in Nigerian …

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Kano Communities in Darkness Over Abandoned N124. 496 Million Constituency Electrification Projects

Kano Communities in Darkness Over Abandoned N124. 496 Million Constituency Electrification Projects

By Lukman Abdulmalik No fewer than 11 communities in 3 Local Government Areas of Kano State are experiencing multiple power cuts and suffer loss of business daily due to failed constituency electrification projects. Stallion Times reporter Lukman Abdulmalik visited 3 communities in 3 LGAs to check out the real situation of the electricity power cuts. Discovery showed …

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How Home Grown Initiative is Addressing Nigeria Energy Transition

How Home Grown Initiative is Addressing Nigeria’s Energy Transition

Local transformative initiatives in Borno and Kogi states of Northeast and North-central Nigeria are addressing energy transition that is moving away from fossil fuel and addressing climate change. Phoenix Renewables Limited, led by Mr. Mustapha A. Gajibo is making a remarkable effort in the Nigeria Energy Transition targeted at phasing out fossil fuel and embracing …

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Food processing empowers Nigeria’s rural woman

Food processing empowers Nigeria’s rural women

Rural women in Nigeria are tackling poverty through the processing of Garri, a creamy-white or yellow granular flour made from fermented, gelatinized fresh cassava tubers. A popular staple food that is eaten in many homes in Nigerian and West Africa. The rural women are making money through the processing of Garir, with some of them …

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COVID-19 women development spent N1 billion on skill acquisition

COVID-19: women development spent N1 billion on skill acquisition

The National Centre for Women Development, an agency under the Ministry of Women Affairs has spent the sum of N1 Billion as part of COVID-19 intervention programmes, documents from the Federal Ministry of Finance have shown. In the documents that were released by the Federal Ministry of Finance in response to a Freedom of Information …

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