Three persons have died in Ebonyi State university as the school authority forced students from 10 faculties to write GST examination in a single hall. Witnesses, who are students that sat for the exam, gave same accounts of how they were packed inside a hall that has no ventilation. They, however, said as a result …
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Students of the Special Education School in Tudun Maliki community of Kano State are learning sitting on the floor in a classroom that is near collapse and completely dilapidated. This is even as the Kano state government in the last decades had spent billions of naira in education, an amount that is yet to reflect …
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Alo Uno community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu state has continued to practice a culture that allows women to be made properties belonging to community shrine while they are forcefully married out to old men who cannot afford a wife. MAWA Foundation, who visited the community leaned that young ladies were forcefully married …
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Completed school classrooms in Kano have been put under lock and not put to use five years after they were constructed. The three-block of classrooms that are three in number are situated at the Minjibir model school in the Mjb Local Government Area of Kano state and were facilitated by Mr. Bashir Baballe, a lawmaker …
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The N1.12 billion Ukanafun Akwa Ibom hospital has remained abandoned despite the sum of N800 million capital already released for the project. The Akwa-Ibom state government in 2008, released the sum of N800 million for the construction of a 50-bed cottage hospital in the Ukanafun area. Despite the fund release, the hospital construction remains abandoned …
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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) say it has spent the sum of N48 million for the purchase of hand sanitizer. An action the NSCDC said was to prevent and contain the spread of coronavirus among its personnel and Nigeria. The NSCDC, who categorized the hand sanitizer under the COVID-19 emergency procurement, says it is …
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The Nigerian Rural Electrification Agency (REA), saddled with a mandate to promote rural electrification and co-ordinate rural electrification programs, in a clear example of what appears to be a corruption practice, has installed eight solar street lights in the Katsina community for N20 million. Under the deal, the federal government under the Zonal Intervention Project …
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Parents who lost their job and income as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak have withdrawn their kids from school and stopped their education; interviews and focused group discussions by MAWA Foundation have shown. Some of the parents, who spoke to MAWA Foundation officials, recounted how their children’s education has been adversely affected because they …
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The N60 million drainage and road construction at Ikot Omin community in Calabar the Cross River State capital has been abandoned. Under the deal, the sum of N60m was allocated in the 2020 by the federal government to carry out the construction as a zonal intervention project. Tracka a public accountability organisation that visited the …
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Some residents in Nasarawa state communities are recounting how the Nigerian police and other security officials tortured, harassed and abused them during the COVID-19 lockdown. Recounting their ordeal, some residents of Kabayi at Mararaba, a densely populated area in Nasarawa State, who spoke to the MAWA Foundation team, gave different accounts of how the police …
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