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UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION: How Enugu State Internal Revenue Officers Steal Tax Money

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Investigative journalist, KELECHUKWU IRUOMA, presented himself as an unemployed Nigerian youth to expose corruption at the headquarters of the Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS). To undertak...

Silent Killer: Oil Pollution Continues To Kill Nigerians In Delta Region

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A six-month investigation unravels how frequent oil spill in Ogoniland, Rivers State contaminates the environment, silently killing the people, and how the slow pace of the cleanup exercise worsens th...

After ICIR’s Investigative Report, FG To Hire Six Contractors To Begin Ogoni Water Project

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FOUR months after The ICIR’s investigation on how pollution as a result of oil spills in Nigeria’s Niger Delta is silently killing the people of Ogoniland in Rivers state, the Federal Government has s...

How Misinformation Drives Low Uptake Of COVID-19 Vaccine In Nigeria

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CHIAMAKA Ani was at the Uruan Local Government Secretariat of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Akwa Ibom State in South-South Nigeria when health workers from the National Primary Health Car...

How Misinformation May Slow Fight Against Deadly COVID-19 In Nigeria

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AS vaccines continue to be rolled out to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, several false claims are being spread to misinform and discourage people from taking them.