In Nigeria, the government does not have a full understanding of how COVID-19 has negatively impacted the urban poor, and that many are in dire situations desperately looking for help. In this special report supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), MAWA FOUNDATION uncovers how the pandemic is impacting the urban poor. …
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The poor state of Primary Healthcare Centre at Toronke community in Mashi Local Government Area of Katsina state makes one weep. At the Toronke Community Primary Healthcare centre in Katsina state, patients are treated under the tree while drugs are kept in abandoned toilets. Follow the money, a public accountability organization that was in the …
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Men of the Nigerian police during the coronavirus lockdown assaulted and collected bribes from us to allow free movement, Uke residents have said. Uke community residents in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarwa state made this known while speaking to the Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation team who visited the community to interact with the …
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Residents of Zone 5 Area, by the Catholic Church at Dutse Alhaji in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, have contributed money and are fixing their road. Residents who spoke to MAWA FOUNDATION say they began contributing monies to fix their road when it became obvious to them that government isn’t going to help them fix …
Awkunanaw Street in Enugu, the Enugu state capital has become a death trap despite the N43 billion state capital allocations in the year 2019 and other allocations that have been made from 2020 to 2021. Residents of Awkunanaw Street located by the Etudo area are lamenting how they go through predicament using the road to …
The Coronavirus economic crisis has led to the separation of husband and wife at the Masaka area of Nasarawa state, the Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA Foundation) has learned. The couples, who lived in the Tundun Wada area of Masaka, separated when the husband could not provide food for the family as a result …
Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says a single borehole at Amaukwu community in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia state cost N100 million in what appears a shocking example of contract inflation that has helped undermine the Commission’s ability to achieve its mandate. Drilling a single borehole in Abia averages N1.5 million. A hydrology firm told MAWA …
Mrs. Alice Ngbuo, a resident of Mpape area of Abuja, an informal settlement, has told MAWA FOUNDATION that living in the time of COVID-19 is terrific and frustrating considering the huge poverty and suffering the pandemic brought. Ngbuo who spoke at her Mpape resident, said there was a huge poverty before the outbreak of Coronavirus, …
Residents of the Mpape community located at Bwari Area Council, five kilometres away from Abuja city centre have begun questioning social distancing considering that in some instances, 11 persons live in a single room. At the Ajegunle area of the informal settlement, Miss Blessed Okhar, a resident told MAWA FOUNDATION that in many of the …
Mr. Salisu Iro Isansi, a federal lawmaker from Katsina state and the Universal Basic Education (UBEC) has constructed a mini ICT centre for N100 million as a constituency project. The ICT that had Cool Choice Nigeria Limited as its contractor, was awarded by the Universal Basic Education Commission and was supervised by the Department of …
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