The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) wants Nigerians to call it for problems related to their National Identification Numbers (NIN) via a toll-free line that no one responds to. Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) was kept waiting on the line for several minutes on multiple attempts.👇🏾

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#JournoRequest I am looking to speak with Lagos residents who have: • Been held illegally at the Oshodi Task Force office • Been forced to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit • Had family members in the positions aforementioned • Had to pay bail to the officers

Nasir El-Rufai, former Kaduna State governor, criticised the culture of unlawful detention in Nigeria at an event on Thursday. The same El-Rufai oversaw multiple unlawful detentions while he was governor. Journalists slept in cells in El-Rufai's Kaduna for as long as 150 days.👇🏾

Among the names Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) discovered on the directory as lawmakers is Abdulkadir Jelani Danbuya, who represented Isa/Sabon Birni in Sokoto and died on October 11, 2023. SPOTTED: Lawmakers Who Died 2, 3 Years Ago Still ‘Alive’ on NASS Website fij.ng/article/spotte…

My GOAT, you are very terrible decision maker. See you on July 19, 2026.

Two federal government girls colleges in Abuja paid four companies N50.7 million in December 2025 for what they failed to describe. In clear terms, the budget descriptions show they paid millions for nothing. This is a violation of Nigeria’s Public Procurement Act 2007 (PPA).👇🏾

Scammers posing as immigration experts are harvesting the data of Nigerians through new deceptive advertising tactics on TikTok. These ads usually contain remote job offers with stupendous salaries or promote ways to make easy money online.👇🏾

Four people, including one woman, were shot to death by terrorists on Wednesday in Ding’ak, an area under Mushere in Bokkos LGA, Plateau State. A resident told Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) that he and others heard rumours of the impending attack on Tuesday and have since gone into hiding.👇🏾

Your editor watching you write the same stale story he’s going to trash.

“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name… the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.”

In 1970, Augustine Njoku-Obi, a professor who had produced vaccines for the Biafran Army during the civil war, told the Nigerian government he had developed a new anti-cholera vaccine. The Yakubu Gowon regime did not believe him, and a scandal was born. In a 1986 interview with

Boards don’t hit back. But I will.

Good observation! 👏🏽 Tools like yourtracka.org by Tracka help Nigerians follow public projects line by line, from what was budgeted to what was delivered. But for accountability to truly work, government must share full information, oversight institutions must speak

Kayode Egbetokun has stepped down as Inspector General of Police following a request from President Tinubu. Sources within the presidency said that Egbetokun was asked to resign during a meeting with the president at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday.👇🏾

A commercial trailer conveying cement triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) after driving over it along the Gusau-Funtua highway, between Kuceri and Magazu in Tsafe Local Government Area, Zamfara State, on Wednesday. It is the latest IED incident in the state.👇🏾

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That Google Drive link of 200+ novels in the Heinemann African Writers Series is piracy on a grand scale. Truly surreal to see someone so brazenly offer to share it, & for so many to express interest in getting the link. Gross violation of IP by 'supporters' of African writing.

Families speak to Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) about the ghosts, emotions and trauma they faced exhuming their loved ones following state-sanctioned demolitions in Oworonshoki, Kosofe Local Government Area, Lagos State, Nigeria: twp.ai/4iviC9

The Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research paid five companies N915 million in December 2025 for projects ranging from road rehabilitation to solar streetlights and farming equipment. These projects are unrelated to the institute's marine research mandate.👇🏾