Sep 8, 2019
Chinedu’s top stories
Hello,
I am Chinedu Asadu, a journalist with TheCable, Nigeria’s independent online newspaper.
I am pleased to welcome you to an online library of some of the best stories I have written at TheCable, many of which have inspired change.
I hope you find them interesting and inspiring.
You can always reach me via email: chineduasadu22@gmail.com, or Twitter: @chinedu_asadu
Cheers!
THE LIST:
How Nigerian officials sold fake COVID-19 test results to travellers to beat the system in place in exchange for bribe
Inside hospitals in Akwa Ibom where quack nurses are trained and certified
Investigations into how Kogi State Government in failing in its response to COVID-19 pandemic:
Investigation into the activities of a Chinese mining company endangering the lives of FCT residents:
https://www.thecable.ng/fg-probes-chinese-company-after-report-on-contaminated-water-supply-in-fct
https://www.thecable.ng/fg-indicts-chinese-mining-company-for-water-pollution-in-fct
Data story on the trend of police brutality in Nigeria:
IDP children that are not in school:
(1) https://www.thecable.ng/video-inside-idp-camp-where-130-children-are-locked-out-of-classrooms
(2) https://www.thecable.ng/rochas-foundation-promises-to-build-school-in-abuja-idp-camp)
How oil spills kill hundreds in Nigeria’s Ogoni land: https://www.thecable.ng/inside-ogoni-village-where-oil-spill-wipes-off-10-persons-every-week?nonamp=1
On infertility stigma in Enugu state: https://www.thecable.ng/how-childless-women-struggle-to-survive-after-losing-husbands
On waste of public funds in Nigeria by leaders: (1)https://www.thecable.ng/77-radiotherapy-machines-over-1m-boreholes-how-8th-senates-n70-6bn-running-cost-could-have-transformed-nigeria
(2) https://www.thecable.ng/shocker-aso-rock-got-n15bn-for-cars-generators-and-travels-in-10-years
On corruption in distribution of voter cards: https://www.thecable.ng/shocker-pvc-for-sale-in-abuja-nasarawa-electoral-officials-collecting-n500
On Nigeria’s political parties’ use of fake news to disrupt the electoral process: https://www.thecable.ng/analysis-how-pdp-apc-camps-are-using-fake-news-as-2019-campaign-strategy
On the brain drain in Nigeria’s healthcare sector:(1) https://www.thecable.ng/how-saudi-officials-wooed-nigerian-doctors-in-lagos-abuja
(2) https://www.thecable.ng/fact-check-does-nigeria-have-enough-doctors-as-claimed-by-ngige
On poor state of healthcare centres in Nigeria’s capital: https://www.thecable.ng/child-delivered-torchlight-sad-tales-abandoned-phcs-abuja
On the decay in Nigerian universities and how leaders overlook them (1): https://www.thecable.ng/photos-the-decayed-infrastructure-serving-as-unn-hostels
On the life of almajiris: https://www.thecable.ng/inside-the-world-of-almajiri-children-with-big-dreams-but-harsh-reality?nonamp=1
On the plight of Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria: https://www.thecable.ng/its-preferable-to-die-back-home-cameroonian-refugees-lament-hardship-in-nigeria
On Nigeria’s porous borders: https://www.thecable.ng/reporters-diary-how-to-smuggle-things-from-cameroon-with-ease
On the herdsmen/farmers related crisis: https://www.thecable.ng/we-buried-many-people-inside-their-rooms-untold-stories-of-plateau-attacks
On plastic ban in Nigeria: https://www.thecable.ng/a-vote-for-plastic-ban-in-nigeria/amp
The story of the Chibok girls: https://www.thecable.ng/timeline-inaction-outrage-campaigns-five-years-of-chibok-girls-abduction
On the welfare of corps members: https://www.thecable.ng/shame-how-corps-members-deployed-as-inec-ad-hoc-staff-packed-like-sardines-in-the-dark-open
On the seeming disregard for rule of law in Nigeria: https://www.thecable.ng/fact-check-buhari-correct-rule-law-subject-national-interest
http://www.thecable.ng/the-road-trip-challenge-will-fashola-accept-it-or-not
http://www.thecable.ng/chatham-house-582bn-stolen-from-nigeria-since-independence
http://www.thecable.ng/fact-check-verifying-peter-obi-insecurity-economy-employment
https://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-bvn-links-owerri-hotel-to-gm-of-petroleum-equalisation-fund
