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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 […]

Jonah Ogunniyi Otunla, a former Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), died on Monday, a few days after his 69th birthday on June 12. Otunla, however, had a multi-billion-naira corruption case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the time unnamed family members told reporters that he died in his sleep. Colonel Bello […]

On Tuesday morning, some motorists were stuck in a traffic holdup along the Murtala Mohammed Local Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, while the convoy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was moving into the airport. Tinubu arrived in Lagos on Friday for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration and departed Lagos on Tuesday, the second day declared a public holiday […]

Olalekan Oni, a 400-level student in the criminology department at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti State, was arrested on Monday for rape. Findings revealed that the final-year student had previously announced that he would be the first youth governor of Ondo State, his state of origin. aso.rocks investigates learned that Oni, also known […]

An architect and civil engineer has told aso.rocks investigates that it shouldn’t cost a billion naira to finish the newly inaugurated vice president’s residence in Abuja. While speaking with aso.rocks investigates on Tuesday, the engineer, who asked not to be named, said the amount reported to have been spent to complete the building was outrageous. […]

An architect and civil engineer has told aso.rocks investigates that it shouldn’t cost a billion naira to finish the newly inaugurated vice president’s residence in Abuja. While speaking with aso.rocks investigates on Tuesday, the engineer, who asked not to be named, said the amount reported to have been spent to complete the building, which was […]

Nataba Bulus, a teacher in the Kubau Local Government Area of Kaduna, was dealt his first major blow on the job in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. His salary for the month of March of that year was not paid. And even with work experience that had lasted a few years, Bulus […]

An abandoned road has plunged residents of Irawo, Agboyi Ketu Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Kosofe Local Government Area, Lagos, into despair. A resident of the community, who spoke anonymously with aso.rocks investigates in the last week, said that the Irawo Road project began around mid-May but the contractor had left and signs of construction […]