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Medical Doctors Get Raw Deal, Go Five Months Without Pay While Fighting COVID-19

by Kúnlé AdébàjòHealth, Human Rights, Journalism September 18, 2022September 18, 2022No Comments

While governments and members of the public are celebrating medical workers across the world for their professional sacrifices in battling COVID-19, many doctors in the employ of the government in Nigeria are facing starvation and frustration. Last November, Victoria was full of high hopes as she resigned from her job at a private hospital where …

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. …

COVID-19: Muslim, Christian Clerics Aligning with Terror Groups to Sell Misinformation to Followers

by Kúnlé AdébàjòDisinformation, Journalism September 18, 2022September 18, 2022No Comments

In no other way has the battle between merchants of doctrine and empirical scientists been fiercer than is evident presently over steps by each to paint the novel coronavirus in lurid colours. Surprisingly, religious clerics from the Muslim and Christian fold are aligning with terrorist groups like Boko Haram in painting the position of science …

Nigerians Living with HIV Struggle to Stay on Treatment as COVID-19 Crisis Persists

by Kúnlé AdébàjòHealth, Journalism September 18, 2022September 18, 2022No Comments

Life has not been the same for Nigerians living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) since the coronavirus pandemic started taking a huge toll on commerce and transportation in Nigeria. Many complain of not having easy access to their regular dosages of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, while some who have drugs are threatened by hunger. Ejiro …

Nigerian Startup Dataphyte Focuses on Data-driven Storytelling

by Kúnlé AdébàjòJournalism, Media September 18, 2022September 18, 2022No Comments

Data journalism has been around since the 1960s, but despite tremendous improvements in computer and internet technology, many reporters in Nigeria still struggle to work at this crucial intersection of journalism and numbers. However, one media enterprise, Dataphyte, is gearing up to make a difference. Dataphyte’s managing director, Joshua Olufemi, sees the organization as a “child of …

COVID-19: Nigerians Living with Chronic Ailments Want to Access Essential Medicines

by Kúnlé AdébàjòHealth, Journalism September 18, 2022September 18, 2022No Comments

Ogechi Blessing, 23, was shocked on Wednesday, April 1, when she discovered she could no longer afford one of the medicines helping her to stay alive: hydroxychloroquine. Before the novel coronavirus pandemic, she could get a pack for N6,000 but when she called her regular dealer, he informed her that the new price was N25,000 …

COVID-19: The War Room in Nigerian Newsrooms

by Kúnlé AdébàjòHealth, Journalism, Media September 18, 2022September 18, 2022No Comments

Asides healthcare workers who are known to be on the frontline in the war against COVID-19, the media constitute a set of warriors in the struggle, albeit unsung. Globally, the media have followed every event on the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes creating fear but generally raising hope that the pandemic does not mean the end for …

Nigeria’s Polio Survivors Not Out of the Woods Yet, but the System Hardly Cares

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

As a child growing up in Sango-Otta, Ogun State, Adeyemi Idowu loved to play soccer with friends. Like others in his age group, he also delighted in rolling tyres with a stick in his right hand as he scampered through the neighbourhood. But he soon had to bid farewell to that life of playful adventure …

IELTS: Nigerians are Questioning Why They have to Prove They Can Speak English ㅡ Every Two Years

by Kúnlé AdébàjòJournalism, Policy September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Afees Agboola is no stranger to speaking the English language, and that is an understatement. He started teaching the language as far back as 2006 during his teaching practice as a student in the college of education. In 2012, he was admitted to the University of Ilorin where he studied Primary Education and minored in …

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 …