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Orodata Science Investigative Journalism Grantee Wins Award
Nigeria Health Watch hosted the second edition of the #PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Awards, an annual ceremony that celebrates TV, radio, and print journalists whose reporting on epidemic preparedness and response has been exemplary in drawing public and policymakers attention to the need to fund activities to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies. Among this…
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How Travelers, Transporters Fail To Take Precautions Amid Increasing Cases Of COVID-19 (2)
For Twentyten Daily, Tijani Abdulkabeer and Matthew Piponsuhu, visited various parks in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, to observe the ignorance of travelers and transporters to COVID-19 protocols during the festive season despite recording increasing cases in the state. The number of new COVID-19 cases in Ogun State leveled up between December 1st and Dec. 22,…
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Twentyten Daily Celebrates Its First Anniversary!
TwentyTen Daily is celebrating its first anniversary, a milestone marked by many exciting moments with its own fair share of highs and lows. Over the past one year, with its team made up of journalists, data visualization experts and media innovators. It has extensively published in-depth data-driven stories and reports under a wide range of verticals…
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How Travelers, Transporters Fail To Take Precautions Amid Increasing Cases Of COVID-19 (1)
For Twentyten Daily, Precious Ewuji and Faith Omoniyi, visited various parks in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, to observe the ignorance of travelers and transporters to COVID-19 protocols during the festive season despite recording increasing cases in the state. Funsho Olapade had set out on a sunny afternoon – just about five days to the Christmas…
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Meal For Learning (3): Traders Struggle To Stock Their Shops As Prices Go Up
For Twentyten Daily, Taiwo Babatunde visited market places around tertiary institutions and spoke to traders on the increase in food prices and how it is affecting the growth of their businesses Ugwu Jullieth is a trader at Oye market in Ekiti where she sells rice, beans and other food items. This market is just 50…
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Meal For Learning (2): Market Prices Stiffen Cooking Process, Alternative For Students
For Twentyten Daily, Abdulsemiu Monsuroh highlighted how Nigerian students are finding it difficult to adjust to the increasing food prices despite having income from their sponsors (parents/guardians). For Kabirat Arowona, a part two undergraduate of Pasture and Range Management at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta(FUNAAB), cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) has become…
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Meal For Learning (1): Nigerian Students Struggle With Increasing Food Prices
Despite the declining inflation rate in Nigeria, the persistent increase in food prices is affecting students in different tertiary institutions across Nigeria. Faith Omoniyi, for Twentyten Daily, spoke with several students who narrated their experiences studying in Nigeria’s unfavorable economic situation. Victor Awotubo, a student of english and literary studies in the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti,…
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How Journalists Accessed COVID-19 Vaccination In Nigeria
This story is a result of Orodata’s Micro-Grant support to journalists to produce in-depth investigative and data-driven stories on thematic areas like Development, Healthcare, Covid-19, and Covid-19 Vaccine. After registering online for the COVID-19 vaccination in March 2021 as directed by the Lagos State Government, the Deputy Editor of NewDawn Newspaper, Charles Okogene waited to…
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How Poor Funding For Research, Low Technology Contributed To Lack Of Local Covid-19 Vaccine Production
This story is a result of Orodata’s Micro-Grant support to journalists to produce in-depth investigative and data-driven stories on thematic areas like Development, Healthcare, Covid-19, and Covid-19 Vaccine. “Nigeria Institute of Medical Research is surviving on international grant. There is no budgetary provision for NIMR. Majority of the things they are using are programmed and…
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Living On The Fringe: Sad, Sorry world Of Sokoto’s Almajirai
This story is a result of Orodata’s Micro-Grant support to journalists to produce in-depth investigative and data-driven stories on thematic areas like Development, Healthcare, Covid-19, and Covid-19 Vaccine. Around noon sometime in April 2021, Salisu* was sitting under the shade of a mango tree to ease himself off from the Sokoto sun. When this reporter…