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Category - Accountability Reports
Extrajudicial Killings, Torture, Robbery… Excesses of ‘Ba Beli’ Armed Group Turning Bauchi-Plateau Border into a Bloodbath Field
By Usman Babaji In mid-July, three children, Maryam, Abduljabbar, and Ja’afar returned home from school in Langai, one of the border communities between Bauchi and Plateau states. Maryam, the oldest sister asked after her father...
Despite multi-million naira contracts by FERMA, Bauchi-Jigawa, Azare-Katagum Roads Still in a Deplorable State
In April, 2021, the Federal Government through the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) paid a contractor, Na’atika Nigeria Ltd, N75.5 million for the repair and patching of potholes along the 123.1km Bauchi-Ningi-Jigawa road...
Baba Iyali Constituency Project Scam: Disguised With Two Different Names, Road Project Was Paid Twice in Ningi/Warji Federal Constituency, But Remains Uncompleted
By Aminu Adamu Naganye Disguised and awarded two different times, a 2.5km Baima-Rumba road facilitated by Hon. Abdullahi Saad (fondly addressed as Baba Iyali), a member representing Ningi/Warji Federal Constituency in Bauchi...
REPUBLISHED: How INEC Officials In Gombe Disenfranchise Residents of Hard-to-reach Communities Who Fail to Bribe Them
Ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, residents of some hard-to-reach communities in Gombe state cannot participate in the general election. They were disenfranchised by INEC officials who accepted kickbacks in order to...
PLSI Moves To Promote Public Accountability In Nigeria
A Civic Society Organization, Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative, PLSI, has taken steps to ensure accountability and transparency on public funds, through effective auditing. To this end, the organization is currently holding...
NDERCOVER: How Bauchi Health Workers Connive With Drug Vendors To Divert, Sell Medicines Distributed By Government, NGOs
By Usman Babaji Bauchi State government and a host of non-governmental organisations have for years been distributing both free and subsidised drugs across its healthcare centres to support the less privileged. But the generosity...
Explosions, Cracks, Asthma… What Triacta Construction Company Gives Birshi Fulani Community In Bauchi
Triacta Nigeria Ltd is building infrastructure in Bauchi State — giving it an outstanding look — sadly, residents of Birshin Fulani are paying the price. In this report, YAKUBU MOHAMMED documents the excruciating plights of the...
How Contractors Pocketed Over N78 Million Meant For Road Projects In Bauchi
In what appears to be a safe money-laundering channel for corrupt and dubious reasons, WikkiTimes’ Idris Kamal Ibrahim in this investigation revealed how two companies – AJ & N Multi-Ventures Limited and Amis & S Global...
Despite N36.3 Billion In Releases, Gembu-Serti Road In Taraba Still ‘A Death Trap’
By Usman Babaji In what looks like collaborative deceit and corruption, both the Federal Government and Taraba state have comfortably wasted over N36.3 Billion but failed to deliver the 230km Gembu road in Taraba years after it...