Foundation for Investigative Journalism

Some gunmen abducted three siblings who were travelling with the remains of their deceased mother in Benue State on Saturday morning. Between January and July, kidnappers have ambushed commercial and private vehicles in Benue, killing and kidnapping several travellers. Media reports revealed that the siblings were travelling from Abuja when the kidnappers intercepted their vehicle along Ogobia–Otukpo Road in Ohimini Local Government Area.

An online platform wants to sell videos of you performing your daily routines to a European audience and it wants you to undertake a select collection of tasks, like joining WhatsApp and Telegram group chats. In exchange for this, they would pay you euros, which they say you can withdraw directly into your bank accounts.

Policewoman Oluwayemisi Sekinat Kusimo has refunded another N50,000 to Stephen Odunewu, an Ogun resident from whom she received N400,000, after an FIJ story. Odunewu confirmed the latest payment to FIJ via WhatsApp at 11:57 pm on Thursday. “Kusimo has made another payment of N50,000. She paid it on Wednesday,” he said.

The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has made its sexual offender registry available online following an FIJ story detailing the registry’s inaccessibility on their website. FIJ observed on Saturday that the landing page for the registry led to a page that listed only offences but failed to include names of offenders. Using a screen recording feature, this reporting captured what the website looked like at press time. DSVA’s sex offenders registry.

One month after securing a court judgement ordering Soyombo Sosinmi Olajide, an Ogun-based car dealer, to refund N4 million with interest and costs, Oscar Josiah, a Lagos businessman, is still struggling to recover his money from him. The businessman told FIJ on Thursday that despite the judgement of the Lagos Small Claims Court, Olajide, whom he knew as the owner of Mistimonta Nigeria Enterprise, had neither complied with the court order nor stopped advertising vehicles for sale on social media.

After coming across an Instagram advert about Dandamil Travels and Tour, a travel agency, in May 2025, Lagos resident Taiwo Adelakan and two of her siblings paid N4.7 million in tranches to the travel agency between June and July 2025 to process work visas to Canada. Months later, after they did not receive the visas, the trio demanded a refund from Omolara Damilola Olowookere, the travel agency’s head, and she promised to return their money by April 2026.

The Nigerian Press Council (NPC) has ongoing projects to renovate schools and classrooms, construct streetlights, supply grinding machines, among other odd line items in its 2026 budget. Established by the federal government in 1992, the NPC exists to promote high professional standards for the Nigerian press.

Foreign-trained Nigerian medical graduates preparing for their induction into the medical profession have raised concerns over what they describe as an abrupt and unexplained increase in the induction fee announced by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). Betty Joan (real name withheld), one of the affected graduates from Russia, told FIJ on Thursday that after writing the MDCN’s June qualifying examination, successful candidates began to prepare for their induction.

Fadila Yunusa, a businesswoman based in Kogi State, has accused PalmPay Microfinance Bank of failing to credit her account after reversing N88,000 she paid to an online clothes vendor whom she later suspected for fraud. Yunusa told FIJ on Wednesday that after she reported the transaction as fraudulent through the PalmPay app, the fintech company successfully reversed the funds from the recipient’s bank account.

Obinna Okeke, a customer of GTBank for about 20 years, has had his N100,000 stuck with the bank since February 16 after an unsuccessful payment at a point of sale (PoS) terminal in Lagos Island. Okeke purchased imported clothes from a vendor, who owned a PoS machine at Mandilas, Lagos Island, and needed to make a payment. He first paid a part of the money with his Zenith Bank debit card without any issue but when he tried paying the balance with his GTBank card, the payment failed.