In January 2024, Nancy Yakubu, a dedicated Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) in Shiroro local government area (LGA), made a…
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“Why would a presidential candidate have secret meetings with soldiers 14 days before the election?” the post thread read. “Is this meeting part of the wider agenda to disrupt the elections, destabilise the country, set us on fire, incite chaos and violence, provoke a coup d’etat…?”
“In my locality, because I don’t know about other localities, right now in my village Bafarawa, even if we want to farm, we have to seek permission from the bandits.
To verify these claims, HumAngle extracted figures from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) project, which has been updated up to April 19, 2024. The database is compiled by a non-governmental organisation and is the most widely referenced source of conflict data worldwide.
The company which has no records of undertaking similar projects in the past- having been registered in April 2019 as an energy firm and not a construction company, was paid various amounts in 2021 for the construction of a maternity, rural earth road and an earth dam nominated by the lawmaker.
Information disorder is a rapidly growing trend in the public and media space, more noticeably on social media, and this continues to be a source of concern for media professionals and the general public.
More so, there has not been any press statement issued by any of the parties involved in the negotiations or a news report from any credible news platform on the purported agreement.
Findings by PRNigeria show that the first DG of the NEMA was a female, Mrs Oluremi Olowu, as highlighted in reports by the International Network of Women in Emergency Management (PWM) and the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM).
Oyediran village, a remote community close to the Oyo-Osun border, is predominantly inhabited by farmers. With over a hundred residents and difficult access due to poorly maintained roads, getting to the nearest health facility takes them more than an hour by bike. The roads often become impassable during the rainy season when a stream overflows, trapping residents inside.
On July 23, 2023, this reporter traveled to Bukka village, a few kilometers away from the headquarters of Mokwa to meet with an old sick woman who was accused of witchcraft in Central Nursery and Primary School Mokwa (Yeko Rabba).