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HILLARY ESSIEN

Hillary Essien is a reporter with Peoples Gazette focusing on special reports and critical national news. She is a lawyer with 2 years of writing and reporting. Prior to working with The Gazette, Hillary served as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organisation focused on food security for children of low income households.She is on Twitter @Hillary_essien
October 7, 2020

Coronavirus: 66% of Nigerians stayed away from work since March: NBS

The report highlights a protracted instability in the job market, which experts warn could worsen insecurity.

A man working on system
October 6, 2020

Nigerian prison official dies by suicide after passing three exams without promotion

Alfred Bassa took lethal Sniper pesticide to protest injustice in the Nigerian Correctional Service, a month before he was to get married.

Alfred Bassa, an assistant superintendent of prisons
October 6, 2020

Obaseki says can’t directly intervene in Edo assembly dispute

The removal of 14 MPs has put the state assembly in some disorder.

Edo governor Godwin Obaseki
October 6, 2020

Hushpuppi’s trial delayed till May 2021

The 37-year-old Ramon Abbas, an Instagram sensation, was arrested in Dubai following a police operation ‘Fox Hunt 2.’

Hushpuppi
October 1, 2020

Independence Day: 60 good things about Nigeria in 60 years

As the country clocks 60, we take a trip down memory lane to remind ourselves how far we have come.

Atlanta '96 winners
September 30, 2020

‘My goal was to graduate this year’: A strike and a pandemic lock university students out

Nigerian students risk losing an academic year, as coronavirus, government inefficiency and protracted teacher strikes compound long-standing woes of the public university system.

Roseline Anyadiegwu, a student of University of Nigeria
September 30, 2020

TStv enters Nigeria’s digital entertainment market October 1

The revamped operator is hitting the market with a pay-per-view model that existing cable providers have long deemed too difficult to implement.

Tstv
September 29, 2020

Nigerian parliament drops controversial water resources bill

Lawmakers challenged both the constitutionality of the bill and the procedure for its passage before throwing it out.

House of Representatives,
September 29, 2020

EXCLUSIVE: SSS DG Bichi conducts secret, uneven recruitment; North: 535; South: 93

The Gazette has uncovered a hiring anomaly that could potentially tip the ethnic and religious balance of national security in favour of a section of the country for decades.

Director-General, SSS, Yusuf Bichi
September 28, 2020

NLC affiliates unhappy with decision to call off strikes

The unions meet tonight to go over the resolutions reached by government and labour leaders Sunday night.