By Maryam Rabiu For months, I travelled across different mining sites, witnessing firsthand the grim reality of child labour in the industry. I saw children toiling under extreme conditions, risking their lives for meagre wages, trapped in a cycle of poverty and exploitation. Many of these children, some as young as 13, spend long hours…
In this second and concluding part of our investigative report, THEOPHILUS ADEDOKUN detailed the infractions of Dangote Coal Mines Ltd (DCML), a subsidiary of Dangote Group, against host communities. It also unravelled how the Dangote Companies, in connivance with the Benue State Ministry of Land, swindled Indigenous communities with the Ghana Mining Act. READ THE…
Ụmụ obodo iri na asatọ gụnyere Otukpo, ebe ọdịnala nke ndị Idoma dị na steeti Benue, nọ n’ihe ize ndụ n’ihi ọrụ maining ụkwụ na-akpọ coal nke Dangote Coal Mines Ltd, otu n’ime ụlọ ọrụ Dangote Group. Theophilus Adedokun nke Southern Herald kpughere ka ihe ndị na-egbu egbu dị ka Lead, Arsenic, Mercury na Cadmium…
akọ̀ròyìn, Adédọ̀kún Theophilus Bí ó tilẹ̀ jẹ́ pé àjọ tó ń bá ìjọba ja lórí ìwà ìbàjẹ́ ní Nàìjíríà, Ẹgbẹ́ Tó ń Ṣàkóso Ìwádìí Ìṣàkóso àti Ètò Ọ̀rọ̀ Ajé (EFCC), ti ná Naira miliọnu 563 lórí rira kọ̀npútà àti ẹ̀rọ fọ́tòkópí ní ọdún márùn-ún tó kọjá, EFCC ṣi tún gbìyànjú láti fi Naira miliọnu 300…
By ADEDOKUN THEOPHILUS Ọ bụ ezie na ụlọ ọrụ na-alụ ọgụ megide ọghọm n’ala Nigeria, nke a anakpo Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), jiri ego ruru narị nde naịra ise na iri isii na atọ n’ịzụ kọmputa na igwe na-eme fotokopi n’ime afọ ise gara aga, ha ka na-etinye narị nde atọ ọzọ n’akwụkwọ…
By Adedokun Theophilus Ko da yake Hukumar Yaki da Cin Hanci da Rashawa ta Kasa (EFCC) ta kashe naira miliyan 563 wajen siyan kwamfutoci da na’urorin kwafi cikin shekaru biyar da suka gabata, har yanzu ta sanya naira miliyan 300 a kasafin kudinta na shekarar 2025 domin irin wannan siye. Jaridar Southern Herald ta gano…
By ADEDOKUN THEOPHILUS Even as Nigeria anti-corruption body, wey dem dey call Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), don use better N563 million take buy computer system and photocopy machine from 2020 reach 2024, dem still dey plan carry another N300 million do same waka for 2025 budget. Na Southern Herald gather this tori wey…
by ADEDOKUN THEOPHILUS Although Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) spent N563 million on the purchase of computer systems and photocopying machines in the last five years, it still budgeted the sum of N300 million for similar expenditures in 2025. Southern Herald found out that this huge amount was released for…
Eighteen Indigenous communities, including Otukpo, the traditional home of the Idoma ethnic group in Benue State, are in danger as a result of a coal mining operation by Dangote Coal Mines Ltd, a subsidiary of Dangote Group. Southern Herald’s THEOPHILUS ADEDOKUN reveals how deadly contaminants such as Lead, Arsenic, Mercury and Cadmium from Dangote Coal…
By ADEDOKUN THEOPHILUS DESPITE THE EXORBITANT funding earmarked to tackle and address the teething issues of insecurity and defence in the 2024 fiscal year, the report shows that Nigeria has been worse in solving these challenges, making it become a hotspot of terrorism attacks and mortality. A recent report by the Global Terrorism Index, a think…
