After altering his looks and taking psychiatric lessons every day for one week, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO went under cover for three weeks in November, including 10 straight days on The post UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (I): Bed-space corruption, terrible food, well-fed rats… Many things not right at ‘Yaba Left’ appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGCleanliness, they say, is next to godliness, while security is everybody’s business. But these are not for the Federal Government Boys College (FGBC), Garki, Abuja, where poor sanitation is obvious, The post INVESTIGATION: Dry taps, bad toilets… inside the harsh environment where students of Unity Schools learn appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGAfter beating Lagos traffic, I finally arrive at a place Google Maps called Iju Train Station — it looked nothing like a train station. To the right was a middle-aged The post REPORTER’S DIARY: ‘Be at the station 3 hours before take-off’ — welcome to the new Lagos-Ibadan train service appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGPresident Muhammadu Buhari’s bid to raise foreign loans for infrastructural projects is already in jeopardy as the gas supply agreement (GSA) between the Calabar Generation Company Limited and and Accugas Ltd The post EXCLUSIVE: Accugas moves against Nigeria, issues notice of default over Calabar GenCo appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGThe Chinese government has asked Nigeria to settle the legal dispute over the $5.8 billion Mambilla power failing which it would not provide the funds for the project. In 2006, The post China: We won’t fund Mambilla power until Nigeria settles legal dispute appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGNigeria’s penchant for signing agreements that end up putting the country on the back foot continues to haunt the federal government as another power deal wobbles, TheCable can report. There The post EXCLUSIVE: Another $1.2bn liability dangles over Nigeria as Azura power deal wobbles appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGIn September, Mohammed Mahmood, Nigeria’s minister of environment, said seven federal universities are running strictly on solar energy. Speaking at the 2019 climate action summit in New York, US, the The post FACT CHECK: Nigeria told UN that 7 varsities run strictly on renewable energy, but is this true? appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGWhile Nigeria is still struggling to untie the legal knots around the controversial P&ID gas and supply processing agreement (GSPA), another sloppy deal has boxed the country into a tight The post EXCLUSIVE: Like P&ID, like Accugas? Nigeria in trouble over another sloppy gas deal appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGThe African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights has charged the federal government to probe the allegations in the undercover report on the rot in the criminal justice system. In a The post African Commission on Human Rights asks FG to probe issues raised in undercover report on Ikoyi Prison appeared first on TheCable.
CONTINUE READINGInvestigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s The post UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (III): A reporter’s diary — Living with a ‘mad’ cell mate, set up by prison warders, abducted by the police appeared […]
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