After FIJ’s Intervention, PoS Agent Recovers N600,000 Stuck Between OPay, eTranzact
Abdulfatai Sherif, a Lagos Point of Sale (PoS) agent, has finally recovered his N600,000 which got stuck between OPay and eTranzact for two days. Sherif’s N600,000 was reversed to his…
Nigerians Bribe Officials to Modify Data Following NIMC Website Frustrations
Nigerians have expressed growing frustration over their inability to access the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) website to modify their data and print National Identity Number (NIN) slips. As a…
Hit-And-Run Driver Kills FUNAAB Prof on Road Ogun CDA Begged Govt to Make Safe for 3 Years
Oladipo Ademuyiwa, a professor of biochemical toxicology at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), was about to cross the Wole Soyinka-Kemta-Idi-Aba-Somorin Road in Ogun State on Sunday when a…
Benue Security Chief Denied Mass Killings. Terrorists Responded With Community Massacre 2 Days Later
Terrorists have killed at least a dozen residents barely 48 hours after Jacob Gbamwuam, the director general of the Bureau of Homeland Security in Benue State, sat before cameramen and…
5 Years After Chevron Oil Fire Burnt Ojuimole for 90 Days, Residents’ Water Kills Fishes
In April 2019, an oil explosion that caused a 90-day blaze disrupted the quietness of Ojuimole, an ancient oil mining community in Ilaje, Ondo State. The explosion came from an…
UPDATED: Hackers Take Over Premium Times’ X Account
The X account of Premium Times, a Nigerian online newspaper, was hacked on Wednesday, FIJ has learnt. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, sometime after 5 am, the page…
Aero Contractors Still With Civil Servant’s N69,000 for Flight Cancelled 10 Months Ago
Aishat Arinola (pseudonym), a civil servant living in Katsina State, has narrated to FIJ how Nigerian commercial airline Aero Contractors cancelled her flight and failed to refund her N69,000 10…
Edwin Clark: An Enduring Niger Delta Voice
Edwin Clark’s family announced the elder statesman’s death on Monday night. The nonagenarian was a loud and enduring voice against decades of environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region of…
EKEDC Disregards NERC’s Order Against Illegal Deductions From Customer’s Bill
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has continued to disregard a subsisting order by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) from December directing it to discontinue deducting from electricity bill…
INTERVIEW: How Assassins Disguised As Worshippers Murdered Yomi Adetula, the Witness Who Was to Testify Against IBD Dende
On January 19, assassins numbering at least four murdered Yomi Ojonla Adetula, the director, Anti-Arms Smuggling of the Social Orientation and Safety (So-Safe) Corps in Ogun State, at his church…