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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 […]

Street Media Solutions, a creative agency, has made a partial payment of N120,000 to ex-employee Boluwatife Akintola, a motion designer, months after FIJ reported on the delayed disbursement. The agency also sent pre-action letters to both Akintola and FIJ, demanding an apology and retraction of the earlier publication. FIJ reported in April that the agency […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has commenced the display of the preliminary voters’ register ahead of the 2027 general elections. But, at press time, the commission’s website had no preliminary registers available to display. Through announcements by Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in states including Plateau, Sokoto and Taraba, INEC said the exercise […]

A recent check at Abuja outlets of the state-owned petroleum firm revealed that drivers using traditional payment methods parted with N1,405 per litre on October 9, whereas those transacting via its proprietary mobile application paid N1,339. This N66 price gap immediately prompts a vital consideration: against a backdrop of crushing economic hardship, how much genuine […]

Sixteen days to the October 31 deadline for publishing their third-quarter budget implementation reports, only one of Nigeria’s 36 states has made its report publicly available. When FIJ checked the state governments’ official websites and budget portals on Thursday, it found that all the states except Delta have budget reports from the second quarter, which […]

Federal government payment records show that the National Space Research and Development Agency (NSRDA) disbursed a total of N746.7 million for projects with no apparent connection to space science all in one day. FIJ found that in 14 separate payments to 13 distinct companies, NSRDA released over N700 million on June 15 for projects ranging […]

Iortyom Bemgba, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Mata (Ushongo I) constituency in Benue State, is 957 years old according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Bemgba is one of three candidates INEC has listed as being over 100 years old in its final list for the 2027 State House of Assembly elections. […]

On Sunday, officers of the Kano State Police Command prevented opposition members rejecting the second-term bid of President Bola Tinubu from accessing the venue of a meeting planned within the state. The group, called the Tinubu-Must-Go (TMG) movement, have openly criticised Tinubu’s administration and had planned to meet to exchange ideas on how to prevent […]

On August 13, graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University Abdulmujeeb Busari applied for a job via job search platform Indeed. It was a remote transcription role under the ‘Opencipher Tech’ listing. Six days later, Busari received an official shortlisting notification via email. Although Busari had applied to Opencipher Tech, he received the shortlisting notification from Worknesta. […]

• Orders rescue of abductees, dismantling of terrorist camps • Reject political gamblers exploiting marginalisation, Wike tells voters From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Bola Tinubu has directed security agencies to ensure free, fair and credible elections in 2027, as Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), assured opposition parties that security personnel would remain neutral […]

From Adanna Nnamani, Abuja The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded the immediate commencement of negotiations for a new national minimum wage, rejecting the Federal Government’s position that opening talks before June 2027 would be premature. The Congress accused the government of confusing negotiations with implementation, insisting that preparations must begin ahead of the expiration […]