In Nigeria, private schools make up a huge contribution to education while over 40 percent of students are enrolled in private schools. In this special report supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), MAWA FOUNDATION took a look at how COVID-19 is impacting private schools and their teachers. From interviews conducted by …
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Residents of Pandagi and Nanda communities in Abaji area of Abuja the Nigerian capital city are at risk of grave casualties as the only access road to their area is a wooden bridge. Pandagi and Nanda communities in Abaji area of Abuja risk dying using wooden bridge as the only means of accessing their homes …
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By: Paul Edoh Jnr Residents of Ikobi in Apa local government area of Benue state are groaning over the collapse of a wooden bridge that links the communities and the government’s inability to fix it and help reduces their sufferings. Ngbede Baba Itodo one of the residents, who made the call in separate interviews with …
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Mr. Mohammed Sani Musa, Niger State lawmaker in the Senate has admitted he constructed a mini ICT for N56 million as a constituency project. Musa’s admittance came while reacting to Tracka exposure that he had in 2020 nominated building ICT centre for youth, Girl-Child education in Paiko community area of Niger State for the sum …
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Mr. Dino Melaye, a former Nigerian Senator had facilitated a sine bore at the price of N19.7 million in Felele community in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital as a constituency project. This is even as checks by MAWA FOUNDATION shows that drilling a single borehole in the community averages N600k. A hydrology firm told MAWA …
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Kogi government in her 2021 budget approved the sum of N300k for State College of Education Ankpa, purchase of textbooks & teaching materials while approving N4.087 billion for State House of Assembly. MAWA FOUNDATION study of the Kogi state 2021 approved budget published on her state website, shows that the state in her 2021 appropriation …
Mr. Mohammed Sani Musa, Niger State lawmaker in the Senate and National Information Technology Development Agency, has constructed a mini ICT for N125 million as a constituency project. Musa, representing the people of Niger East Senatorial District in the Senate, had in 2020 nominated building of ICT centre for youth, Girl-Child education in Paiko community …
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Mr. Ahmed Wase, a lawmaker from Plateau state and Deputy Speaker of the Nigerian 9th House of Representatives, has been caught in the act of branding his name on constituency projects. MAWA FOUNDATION on Thursday reported how Wase was alleged to have stopped Tracka official from inspecting his constituency projects at the Wase Local Government …
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Mr. Idris Wase, a lawmaker from Plateau state and Deputy Speaker of the Nigerian 9th House of Representatives, has allegedly blocked Tracka from tracking and inspecting his constituency Projects. Wase whose Personal Assistant (PA), Mr. Danjuma allegedly blocked Tracka official from tracking and inspecting his constituency projects at the Wase Local Government Area of Plateau …
The Zamfara state government in her 2021 budget has approved the sum of N500 million to be spent on a printing press, an action she says will help in addressing insecurity and curbing banditry. Justifying the sum, the state government that has since inserted the sum under the ministry for security and home affairs, says …
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