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Land Value Tax in FCT Community Viewpoint

Land Value Development Financing: FCT-Abuja Community Viewpoint

The Nigeria Land Value  Development Financing Baseline Study supported by the International Union for Land Value Taxation is a document that examines the experience of Nigeria’s Land Value Development Financing 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 …

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Climate Change Adaptation An Examination of the Effectiveness of Indigenous Knowledge Systems among Rural Farmers in Akpanya Community, Kogi State, Nigeria

Climate Change Adaptation: An Examination of the Effectiveness of Indigenous Knowledge Systems among Rural Farmers in Akpanya Community, Kogi State, Nigeria

Adamawa State University Journal of Scientific Research (ADSUJSR) Volume 12 Issue 2, 2024 Author: Audu Liberty Oseni Abstract Our disregard for the Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) contributes largely to the failure of state and non-state actors’ intervention targeting climate change adaptation among rural farmers. In a study population of an estimated 19,800 predominantly rural farmers …

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Effective Communication for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: A Study of FCT-Abuja Rural Farmers in Nigeria

Effective Communication for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: A Study of FCT-Abuja Rural Farmers in Nigeria

The Journal of Development Communication Vol. 35 No. 2  December 2024 Author: Audu Liberty Oseni  Abstract Effective communication that will enable rural farmers in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja (FCT-Abuja) to adequately understand climate change issues has continued to be a major barrier in mobilizing them for mitigation and adaptation practices. In a study population of …

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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

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

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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https://mawafd.org/2024/02/14/climate-change-education-must-adopt-dialogue-negotiation/

Examining the Impact of Climate Change on FCT-Abuja Farmers

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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Subsidy Removal Where Are The 2012 Activists

Subsidy Removal: Where Are The 2012 Activists?

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

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

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

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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