April 28, 2025

Southern Herald

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EFCC Blows N563 Million on Computer, Photocopiers in 5 years. Unregistered Company got Awarded. Now, It pushes for a jaw-dropping N300 Million in 2025

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…

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The Cost of Cheap Energy: Dangote’s Industrial Push for Coal Leaves Benue’s Rivers Poisoned. Now, Communities are in Health Peril (I)

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…

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Huge Defence Budget Fails to Curb Nigeria’s Terrorism Crisis As Global Position worsens

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…

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