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Kogi Flood Victims Who Lost Everything are Still Homeless, Broke Despite Govt. Promise

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

“We have not seen flooding like it occurred this year,” said most victims of the recent flooding incident in the North-central part of Nigeria. The disaster is reported to have afflicted hundreds of thousands of Nigerians across different states, leaving many dead and many more displaced. For four days, The ICIR‘s ‘Kunle ADEBAJO visited Niger and …

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 …

Built but Forsaken: How Akufo Health Centre has Become a Refuge for Goats

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

Bisola (not real name), a young mother of three, has lived in Akufo, a town in Oyo State, all her life. She nearly died when she gave birth to her last born on a Sunday two years ago as she had to be taken to Adeoyo State Hospital, about 30 kilometres away. The situation was …

Toluwalase Community: One Dark Spot on Nigeria’s Map

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

Well over a million people live in the Toluwalase community of Oyo State, according to the residents. But the 2006 census, which forms the baseline for population estimates in Nigeria, did not capture this sprawling community. The people were however less worried about this markdown until it started manifesting bigger problems. The ICIR’s Kunle Adebajo, who …

Intellectual Trafficking: How Librarians of Top Nigerian Varsities Exchange Student Theses for Money

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

A thesis―what many Nigerians refer to as a ‘project’—is defined as “a dissertation on a particular subject in which one has done original research, as one presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree”. “Original research”, or sometimes “personal research”, is a phrase that comes up regardless of what dictionary is consulted. Yet, it is …

Abuja Almajiri School Where Toilets Outnumber Classrooms ― And They Aren’t Even Functional

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

Nigeria has always been famous for her huge population – the seventh largest in the world – and for her huge number of out-of-school children ― the largest in the world. Therefore, former president Goodluck Jonathan established “Almajiri integrated model schools” in the North to reduce the number of children who are out of schools, but …

Is Landmass Powering Violence in Northern Nigeria? Here’s What the Data Says

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

Landmass may be contributing to the increasing ungoverned areas breeding terrorism and banditry across Nigeria’s northern states. The steady rise of violent extremism and its resulting conflicts has rendered Nigeria unsafe. In the past decade, the terrorist group Boko Haram, and its splinter organisations, ANSARU and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have caused …

Fear of Boko Haram Not Enough to Protect Borno’s Forests From IDPs

by Kúnlé AdébàjòEnvironment, Journalism September 16, 2022No Comments

Desperate, IDPs in Northeast Nigeria are plunging into the forests for their daily bread, despite the danger posed by lurking terrorists and the risks posed to the environment. Opposite Dalori II displacement camp, located at the outskirts of Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, is a mound of hay, nearly six feet tall and twice as wide. It had …

An Encroaching Desert Intensifies Nigeria’s Farmer-Herder Crisis

by Kúnlé AdébàjòConflict, Environment, Journalism September 16, 2022September 16, 2022No Comments

By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala AbdullahiPhotography by Kunle Adebajo and Murtala AbdullahiVisualizations by Yuxi Wang and Jillian Dudziak A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. An intravenous line sticks out from his right arm and an arrow from his left shoulder. A second arrow, with the tip now detached from its shaft, rests on a …

How Civil Wars Start and Lessons for Today’s Nigeria

by Kúnlé AdébàjòConflict, Reviews September 15, 2022September 18, 2022No Comments

‘Civil wars ignite and escalate in ways that are predictable; they follow a script,’ writes author Barbara F. Walter. How close are developments in Nigeria to this time-tested script? For decades, social scientists have researched factors which, combined, best predict that a country will experience civil war. Nigeria ticks a lot of the boxes. Wars …