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About 70 farmers have been killed in two separate bandit attacks on Mabai and Yar Goje towns in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. Jamil Mabai, a journalist and resident of the area, told aso.rocks investigates that the attacks were unleashed by bandits who arrived at the towns’ farmlands on motorcycles and killed […]

Nigeria’s year-on-year inflation rose to 33.95% in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures released on Saturday. This means that inflation rate has risen for 18 consecutive months. It was 33.69% in April. The NBS highlights major concerns with food inflation in particular. The Bola Tinubu presidency continues to struggle with policies […]

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi, Federal Mortgage Bank (FMBN) chair accused of failure, as the new Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). The State House stated that Gbeleyi is “a renowned financial expert and award-winning chartered accountant”, but he chaired the FMBN, which a member of Tinubu’s cabinet recently criticised […]

Dozens of Nigerians on X have narrated how they escaped officers of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) attempting to plant illegal substances and incriminating evidence on them during stop-and-search operations. In a photo shared by Ricchy on Friday, an unidentified police officer was seen searching a vehicle. With a caption written in Pidgin English, the […]

Abdul Aweda (not real name), an Oyo State-based farmer, has recounted how Z Cash, an online money-lending outfit, harassed and threatened him a day before an N8,500 loan he borrowed was due for repayment. Aweda told aso.rocks investigates that he was yet to recover from the trauma he suffered as a result of the incident, […]

The Guarantee Trust Bank (GT Bank) has refunded the sum of N700,000 to Damilare Abiodun Atobatele, a GT Bank customer who lost N2.5 million to multiple unauthorised transactions. The refund came four days after aso.rocks investigates reported how the sum of N2.5 million left Atobatele’s account in November and was used for online purchases on […]Read More

A New York Times article about Nigeria’s current economic situation has drawn a response from the federal government. The article, titled ‘Nigeria Confronts Its Worst Economic Crisis in a Generation‘, talks about fuel subsidy removal and the floatation of Nigeria’s currency by the Bola Tinubu-led administration and their impacts on the population. Rejoinder to New […]

In the early hours of Wednesday, June 12, gunmen attacked and killed residents of Guida, a community in Abuja. Residents who spoke with aso.rocks investigates said the gunmen, who attacked the community around 2:00 am on Wednesday, killed no fewer than four residents and also kidnapped an elderly married man from his home. “They killed […]

Olabode Damilare, an X user, has narrated how some police officers in the Igbeba area of Ogun State stole a university student’s laptop on Tuesday. Damilare explained on Wednesday that the student was returning home from school when he encountered the officers at a checkpoint in front of Igbegba Police Station. The officers collected his […]

In March 2024, when the attention of Nigerians was drawn to the abduction and eventual release of 137 schoolchildren in Kuriga, Kaduna State, DANIEL OJUKWU toured several parts of the state bedevilled with daily abductions. What he found were children combating terror. Their parents had lost faith in the country’s security architecture, and this is […]

Sanyaolu Juwon, one of the coordinators of the nationwide protest held on Democracy Day, who was arrested by the police in Lagos State, has been released. aso.rocks investigates gathered that he was released on Thursday night, two days after the police arrested him in his home in Lagos. Juwon, who is also the national coordinator […]

The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has elected Professor Bukola Salami, a Canada-based Nigerian nurse, as its vice president. A professor at the University of Calgary, Salami was elected during the association’s virtual annual meeting of members on Thursday. She contested against Farah Khan, a nurse who boasts over 20 years of professional experience and is […]