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Interrogating the Effectiveness of Participatory Communication and Conflict Resolution in Buruku Community of Benue State, Nigeria

Interrogating The Effectiveness of Participatory Communication And Conflict Resolution in Buruku Community of Benue State, Nigeria

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National Open University of Nigeria International Journal of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution VOL. 4, NO. 2, August, 2024 Authors: Professor Emmanuel Samu Dandaura & Audu Liberty Oseni Abstract It has been observed that many conflicts are unresolved because of the inability of state and non-state actors to facilitate active participation and full community involvement in …

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Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

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Although there has been a huge conversation and investments made in climate change at the global, national, and local levels, rural women in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the Nigerian capital, do not believe climate change is real and consider it as fake. For many of them, climate change discussion is nothing but connivance with the …

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Examining the Impact of Climate Change on FCT-Abuja Farmers

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Nigerian Journal of Policy and Strategy, Volume 21, No. 1, 2024 ©National Institute, Kuru (ISSN – 0189 5923) AUTHOR: Audu Liberty Oseni Abstract Since Climate Change became a global challenge, farmers appear to be the worst hit with its consequences impacting food and agriculture. In a sample representation from populations in six communities of Federal …

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Land Value Tax in FCT Community Viewpoint

Land Value Tax in FCT: Community Viewpoint

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The Nigeria Land Value Taxation Baseline Study supported by the International Union for Land Value Taxation is a document that examines the experience of Nigeria’s Land Value Taxation using the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) namely, Abaji, Abuja Municipal, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kwali, and Kuje Area Councils as a pilot study. In …

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Subsidy Removal Where Are The 2012 Activists

Subsidy Removal: Where Are The 2012 Activists?

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As Nigerians now buy a litre of petrol at N900 it becomes fundamental to interrogate the action that led to the 2012 uprising where Nigerians poured out on the streets when the government of Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, former Nigerian president increased the price of petrol from N65 to N141 per litre. The Civil society organizations, …

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FCT-Abuja community children learn under deplorable condition

FCT-Abuja community children learn under deplorable condition

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Deshi Paikon Kore Community Children of Gwagwalada Area Council in Nigeria Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are learning under a despicable condition that is not fit for kids’ education. A visit to the LEA Primary School Deshi Paikon Kore shows the deplorable condition of the classrooms with kids seen learning on a bare floor. Monitng a …

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My commitment to accountable governance, reason I founded MonitNG

My commitment to accountable governance, reason I founded MonitNG

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Mr. Uadamen Ilevbaoje in an interview with MAWA-Foundation discloses that his passion for transparency and accountability in governance, and building strong civic engagement made him founded MonitNG. Read his views  Can you share the inspiration behind founding MonitNG and the specific problem it aims to address?  My name is Mr. Uadamen Ilevbaoje I am the …

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The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja

The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja

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The poor farmers that spoke to MAWA-Foundation at the FO1 area of Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of FCT, in different narratives, gave accounts of how their lands located around the Military Pension Board along Daughters of Charity Hospital were taking over without any form of compensation. They gave accounts of how they lost ownership …

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Nigeria's Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency 

Nigeria’s Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency 

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The Nigerian state’s non-compliance with disclosure continues to be a challenge confronting its extractive industry transparency. Nowhere does non-compliance happen like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), saddled with the responsibility of managing and harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas. The non-disclosure by the NPPC in the way it carries out activities in the extractive sector …

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We are yet to effectively communicate climate chage

We are yet to effectively communicate climate change

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In 2015, the Comity of Nations put in place the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change. The agreement is considered a landmark effort in addressing Climate Change, it is a binding agreement that brings together nations for a collective cause to embark on determining work to fight climate change and adapt …

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