Rural women in Nigeria are tackling poverty through the processing of Garri, a creamy-white or yellow granular flour made from fermented, gelatinized fresh cassava tubers. A popular staple food that is eaten in many homes in Nigerian and West Africa. The rural women are making money through the processing of Garir, with some of them …
The National Centre for Women Development, an agency under the Ministry of Women Affairs has spent the sum of N1 Billion as part of COVID-19 intervention programmes, documents from the Federal Ministry of Finance have shown. In the documents that were released by the Federal Ministry of Finance in response to a Freedom of Information …
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Henry Nxumalo Foundation The Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) is happy to receive the Henry Nxumalo Foundation grant. In the new grant, the African Investigative Journalism Conference, the Gates Foundation, and the Henry Nxumalo Foundation support MAWA-Foundation to undertake a reporting project that will uncover corruption in Nigeria’s health sector. R4D The Media Advocacy West …
Children of the Isigwe Ugbawka, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, are learning under pitiable miserable conditions. In pictures shared by Tracka, a public accountability organization, the children were seen with their teacher receiving lessons while sitting on the floor in a classroom that was nearly collapsing on their heads. From Tracka’s …
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Dutse Alhaji’s first gate located directly opposite Zenith Bank on the right-hand side when driving from Abuja – city centre to Bwari Area Council of FCT has become terribly deplorable. The terrible portion of the road that is less than two kilometres from First Gate to the popular Koro Mosque has become a predicament for …
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The revelation by the Sun Media Development Foundation that Nigeria a country with over a population of 200 million people is facing a heightened public healthcare crisis, with many of its Primary Health Care (PHC) not functional should be a concern to every sane mind. Many would have thought that the outbreak of Covid-19 presented …
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Women farmers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Nigerian capital city are recounting how climate change impact is hitting them and widening economic inequality in the communities they live. The small holders’ women farmers who spoke to MAWA-Foundation at Jiwa community, in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Kuje and Abaji recounted how shortage in …
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Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President on May 29th, 2023 during his inaugural speech scrapped the payment of fuel subsidy. That paved the way for an incessant rise in the price of commodities. A situation that has led to a rise in the cost of education with many schools increasing fees while commuting to school …
In the last three months, I have written three articles showing clearly how FUEL SUBSIDY removal was the greatest error. Information that the Tinubu government paid N169.4 billion as a subsidy in August this year to keep the pump price at N620 per litre, exonerates my stand on subsidy removal. Tinubu and his team knows …
The Media Advocacy West Africa – MAWA Foundation calls on Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President to review his policy on fuel subsidy removal. This is because, the fact before us and other countries’ experience has shown fuel subsidy is energy security that countries cannot do without, because of the vital role it plays in …
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