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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over recent leadership realignments at its headquarters and questionable arrangements regarding the procurement, printing, and custody of critical voting materials for the 2027 general elections. Insisting that citizens must not be kept in the dark regarding actions that could compromise the next presidential […]

A Divisional Police Officer overseeing the Abuloma division in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has been stripped of his role in the wake of viral clips showing alleged members of the Vikings confraternity commemorating their remodeling of a local police facility. The Rivers State Police Command spokesperson, Blessing Agabe, verified the disciplinary action during a phone […]

Moniepoint Microfinance Bank has failed to comply with a judicial directive issued by the Vandeikya Upper Area Court in Benue State, which ordered the recovery of N310,000 sent by mistake over a year ago. The erroneous payment originated from a point-of-sale terminal operated on behalf of Ivash Global Services Ltd. The transaction mistakenly routed funds […]

Ebuka Bernard, an Aba-based digital fabric vendor, has finally regained possession of his iPhone 16 from the Abia State Police Command following sustained public scrutiny of his case. The development follows reports highlighting how security operatives took Bernard into custody simply for detailing his labor dispute with Esther Ogudo, his previous employer who reportedly refused […]

Survivors of a terrorist attack on Sunday are in urgent need of blood at Anka General Hospital, Anka LGA, Zamfara State, security researcher Malik Samuel says. Eight security officers and 19 civilians have died. The officers, providing multi-agency protection to locals, were from the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil […]

A review of government payment records has revealed that the Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu, Ebonyi State, disbursed N890.8 million in a single day as mobilisation payments to several companies for projects unrelated to its statutory mandate. FIJ found on Govspend, an accountability tool created to show government payments as documented on the Open Treasury, […]

The famous Lagos Life simulation game has updated its access policy to allow only users who are at least 18 years old to access the platform. This comes a few days after an FIJ story exposed how an illegal sex worker platform had gained advertising space and put up several posters for the game’s users […]

The Federal Co-operative College, Ibadan, Oyo State, paid five companies N3.2 billion on May 15 for projects outside its core institutional mandate. The stated primary role of the college is cooperative-sector education, training and capacity-building but the projects on the Open Treasury Portal, as reflected by Govspend, are more of road construction and projects not […]

It’s been more than a month since Edokhafue Isuku, a Point-of-Sale (PoS) agent, mistakenly sent N121,000 to the wrong UBA account owned by Chukwuemeka Chioma Patricia while trying to send the funds to another account. “I borrowed it from OPay. I wanted to transfer it to where I normally collect cash to do PoS business, […]

FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has claimed that he and other politicians conspired to ensure that “a very good candidate” did not win the 2024 governorship election in Edo State because they did not want the incumbent, Godwin Obaseki, to select his successor. The September 2024 election was marred by electoral violence and results manipulation. FIJ […]

Madieni Ninato Etasi, an unauthorized middleman who purports to manipulate National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) postings, has cut off contact with university graduate Mary Tobi after taking N90,000 to orchestrate her relocation from Bayelsa State to Oyo State. Hiring third-party fixers to alter youth service postings is illicit under NYSC regulations. Nonetheless, the practice continues […]

On a Sunday afternoon in September, Adeyinka Lasaki, a Nigerian civil servant, watched helplessly as a cascade of debit notifications hit his phone, wiping out a total of N977,124 from his GTBank profile. The stolen funds consisted of N568,908 drained directly from his savings, alongside a newly approved N408,215 loan obtained without his consent. Recalling […]