NEXT EDITION’s Report: IGP Orders Removal of Checkpoints across Nigeria
Barely one week after The NEXT EDITION published an investigative report detailing high-level extortion of motorists by security agencies, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the dismantling of checkpoints across the...
EXCLUSIVE: Next Edition’s Report: Military Dismantles Checkpoints in Adamawa
The Nigerian military has disbanded all its security checkpoints in Adamawa State, The NEXT EDITION can authoritatively report today.
The action followed reported cases of widespread extortion, sabotage of the country’s economy and the war...
INVESTIGATION: Bribe-taking Nigerian security forces pushing petrol to Boko Haram, sabotaging war
Nigerian security operatives are significantly sabotaging the government’s efforts to eliminate Boko Haram and grow the nation’s economy.
Instead, they are helping in funnelling huge volumes of petrol and other fuel products to the deadly...
INVESTIGATION: NHIS Board Overrides Buhari, Suspends scheme’s embattled Executive Secretary, Usman Yusuf
The governing board of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has suspended the scheme’s embattled Executive Secretary, Usman Yusuf, in a clear defiance to President Muhammadu Buhari, who reinstated him months back.
President Buhari had...
EXCLUSIVE: Rivers APC Guber Candidate, Tonye Cole skipped NYSC, omits degrees in nomination forms
The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, is in trouble for skipping the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, the NEXT EDITION has found out. Sources close...
INVESTIGATION: Untold Stories of How Naval Ratings Consistently Attack, Kill Policemen in Calabar
More than a dozen naval patrol Hilux pickups barricaded adjoining streets, isolating the Otop Abasi police station in Calabar, the Cross Rivers State capital on May 30, 2017.
As residents scampered for safety under a...
INVESTIGATION: Finally, First Bank Settles Core Staff Affected In Controversial Job Cut
First Bank Nigeria Limited has finally paid terminal benefits to the over 300 core staff affected by its controversial job cut in August 2017, the NEXT EDITION can authoritatively report.
Already, the accounts of the...
INVESTIGATION: Dead or Alive: The Enforced Disappearance of Jones Abiri
In the past two years, the SSS has rebuffed all efforts by Jones' family, lawyers, journalists and civil society actors to get any information on him.
In tears, 80-year-old Mama Abiri undressed. Before strangers, family,...
INVESTIGATION: How Nigerian Army Bullies Police, Covers Up Killing of 42-Year-Old Man in Adamawa
We felt they were mocking us by covering the real killer and bringing an innocent person to show to the public.
INVESTIGATION: How Buhari Overruled VP Osinbajo, Top Aides, EFCC, ICPC to Reinstate NHIS Chief
The action of the president shows he is indeed not fighting corruption but promoting it and such action should be seriously condemned.
INVESTIGATION: Buhari Govt Violates Federal Law, Illegally Spends over N84 billion Health Insurance Funds
The illegal practice started in 2015 with the government’s introduction of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), a common pool of all government funds.
INVESTIGATION: How NHIS boss Yusuf pocketed millions of naira in illegal estacodes, allowances
In multiple cases, Mr. Yusuf paid himself or other NHIS staffers to attend events already underwritten by sponsors
INVESTIGATION: How Reinstated NHIS Boss Misappropriated over N1bn
Two senior staff, Nana Mustapha and Akingbade Olufemi, whose names appeared in two separate training vouchers in the sum of N35 million and N21 million respectively, said they had no idea of the vouchers being raised in their names
