Accountability – Kúnlé Adébàjò

NigComSat: Nigeria’s Satellite Company Still Not Profitable 14 Years After Launch

by Kúnlé AdébàjòAccountability, Journalism September 25, 2022September 25, 2022No Comments

When the Nigerian Communication Satellite company, NigComSat, was incorporated in 2006, the government had ambitious plans to make it world-class. The country’s excitement overflowed the following year with the launch of Sub-Saharan Africa’s first geostationary communication satellite. By April, it will be 14 years since the journey started, but NigComSat’s scorecard remains unsatisfactory. Domiciled under the Federal …

COVID-19: How Non-Essential Workers Get Lockdown Exemption in Abuja with N20,000

by Kúnlé AdébàjòAccountability, Health, Journalism September 18, 2022September 18, 2022No Comments

FCT police spokesperson says nothing of such is going on despite proof to the contrary. By simply parting with money, some residents of Abuja got passes to circumvent the stay-at-home order for non-essential workers ㅡ and investigation by HumAngle indicates strongly that these tags originated from the Nigeria Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory. …

TETFund Projects at Federal Universities Suffer from Abandonment, Poor Planning

by Kúnlé AdébàjòAccountability, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Since its establishment eight years ago, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has disbursed hundreds of billions of naira to government-owned schools to train teachers and address infrastructural deficits. Kunle ADEBAJO paid visits to three federal universities in Northwest Nigeria — Ahmadu Bello University, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, and Federal University Dutse to see how they use the …

After Receiving N34m, Buhari’s Economic Adviser Fails to Provide Research Study

by Kúnlé AdébàjòAccountability September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

The Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President (OCEAP), headed by Adeyemi Dipeolu, received a sum of N34 million in 2017 to fund research studies on the economy but fails to make this research available, The ICIR has learnt. In 2016, the office requested for a capital allocation of N78 million, out of …