EU Rules Fail to Stop Dumping of Banned Pesticide
The Pollution ‘Caused by Nigeria’s Largest Sugar Refinery’
When Philip Evan first suffered a chest pains, he thought it was a one-off symptom that would disappear. During the period, many of his fellow workers who sprayed chemicals on crops grown at the Dangote Sugar Refinery, had also complained of having breathing problems. Deeming the pain a temporary discomfort, Evan brushed it off. “It’s just a part of the job,” he thought. He, however, continued to experience the pain for months, then years.
The Deadly Protest Nigeria’s Top Sugar Refinery Doesn’t Want You to Know About
When Gad Jacob jumped on his motorcycle in mid-July 2021, to head home after a shift at Dangote Sugar Refinery, Nigeria’s biggest sugar factory, he had no idea it would be the last time he would be making the journey. As the 26-year-old wound his way through Numan, a sleepy town on the outskirts of Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, he encountered a roadblock. Dozens of youths were preparing to protest against the activities of the Dangote Sugar Refinery, the factory where Jacob worked.
Foreign Loan Apps Send Billions Home While Bullying Customers and Violating Nigerian Regulators’ Rules
Bruno Okere knew very little about loan apps until he was introduced to the world of debt. He never wanted to be in a position where a financial institution would defame him for a loan he took, until his financial fortunes took a hit. “I never want to put up my property as collateral for a loan from a commercial bank because the chances of losing the property are high,” the 36-year-old trader said. Okere runs a struggling real estate company that was at risk of going bankrupt.
From Nigeria to India, Big Tech does little or nothing to curb fake news
India-based fact-checker Bharat Nayak monitors over 176 Hindi language WhatsApp groups for a research project he is working on to understand news consumption among Indians. Until a few months ago he worked as founding editor at the Indian digital news and fact-checking site The Logical Indian, overseeing production of fact-checks in the form of text articles, videos and social media posts.
How toxic e-waste from high-income countries booms in Nigerian market
By Jennifer UGWAIn this report, Jennifer Ugwa writes about illegal importation of damaged and obsolete cooling appliances into the Nigerian electronics market and its impact on environment and health. Fourteen months after Juliet Moses bought a secondhand refrigerator from Alaba International in Lagos, the biggest electrical and electronic market in West Africa, she returns for another one. Her previous purchase is clearly malfunctioning.
Guinness Nigeria cuts workforce by almost 600 as directors’ paychecks rocket in five years
By Jennifer UGWATHE Directors of Guinness Nigeria significantly increased their pay in the last five years, even as the drink company’s profit margin was virtually halved, its accounts revealed. Guinness Nigeria which is among the top three breweries in the country is a subsidiary of Diageo plc, one of the world’s largest producers of spirits.