In the middle of the night when Halimat Abbas, a 33-year-old mother of three, gets pressed, she would get up and make for the dumpsite behind her house in the Gambari area of Ilorin East LGA, Kwara state. For her children, the eldest just six years old, there is a small-sized paint bucket that […]
CONTINUE READINGWhen the Ondo correctional centre for children started out in a rented apartment in 1975, the goal was to house persons below the age of 18, and provide them with The post Hunger, chains, neglect… inside Ondo correctional centre for child offenders appeared first on TheCable. Source: Policy Radar
CONTINUE READINGTwenty-four hours to the trip, Otos, a worker at one of the bus terminals in the Jibowu area of Yaba, Lagos, had given all the assurances that there is commercial The post UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION: For N16,500, security agents will allow you travel from Lagos to Abuja despite interstate ban appeared first on TheCable. […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF) has written Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), to request details of payment to lawyers who worked on the latest repatriation of over The post $308m Abacha Loot: Cable Foundation writes Malami, seeks details of payment to lawyers appeared first on TheCable. Source: Policy Radar
CONTINUE READINGCable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF) has been named as one of the beneficiaries of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s $6.3 million in journalism and media grants for The post Cable Foundation gets new MacArthur grant ‘to advance investigative journalism’ appeared first on TheCable. Source: Policy Radar
CONTINUE READINGThe federal high court in Abuja has dismissed Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF)’s suit against Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), saying the foundation did not produce certified The post Abacha Loot: Court dismisses Cable Foundation’s suit against AGF over ‘photocopies’ appeared first on TheCable. Source: Policy Radar
CONTINUE READINGA coalition of civil society organisations has asked the senate under the leadership of Ahmad Lawan to reject the nomination of Abubakar Malami as a minister. Malami is one of The post Abacha Loot: CSOs ask senate to reject Malami over ‘dubious’ $15m lawyers fee appeared first on TheCable. Source: Policy Radar
CONTINUE READINGHe was overwhelmed with sadness, and couldn’t hold the tears at the mention of Praise Sodipe, his niece who died—with Bithia and Vivian—under poor condition at Queen’s College in Lagos. The post 17 months after, no justice for Queen’s College girls who died with their dreams appeared first on TheCable. Source: Policy Radar
CONTINUE READINGEnrico Monfrini, the Swiss lawyer hired by Nigeria to recover Abacha Loot, says Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), is trying to change the facts on the $321 million The post Abacha Loot: Swiss lawyer tackles Malami over dubious N7bn legal fees appeared first on TheCable. Source: Policy Radar
CONTINUE READINGBetween 2013 and 2014, the federal government used the services of Enrico Monfrini and Christian Luscher, Swiss lawyers, to recover $321 million looted by Sani Abacha, late former head of The post Abacha Loot: Five questions for AGF Malami over N7bn lawyers’ fee appeared first on TheCable. Source: Policy Radar
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