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Asokoro General Hospital Abuja Has No Functional Laboratory

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Asokoro General Hospital, one of the busiest hospitals in Abuja, the Nigerian capital city has no functional laboratory, Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) has uncovered. An investigation by MAWA about the hospital operation shows it has no functional laboratory while many of the patients are referred to other laboratories outside the hospital for tests …

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How I Was Promised Job In City, Ended Up As A Professional Sex Worker

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Some sex workers in the Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa are recounting how they were promised job in the city and ended up as sex workers. A sex worker who prefers to be called Doo from the Konshisha area of Benue state said she was brought into Keffi by a woman she did not …

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Chinese activities pushing climate change, exposing us to danger – FCT community

Chinese Mining Company Took Our Land, Destroying Environment – FCT Indigenous Community

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Residents of the Bmuko community in Bwari Area Council of Abuja have continued to recount how Venus, a Chinese mining company, has taken over their land and driven them off their means of livelihood. Workers on the site who spoke to Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) narrated how their lands have been taken over …

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I Cried Because I Didn’t Have Where To Sleep – Woman Says After Govt Demolishes Her House For An Airport Project

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Mrs. Ngozi Alo, a woman who was affected after the Ebonyi state government demolished her house over an Airport project at her community in Onuachi Umuezeoka, said she cried over the demolition and forceful eviction because she did not have a place to sleep. Alo said her case is more terrible because her house was …

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Nigerian top official allegedly defiles, impregnates 13-year-old girl

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Mr. Ahmed Nawawi, Director of Finance, Sokoto State Urban and Regional Planning Board, have been caught in the act of allegedly defiling and impregnating a 13-year-old Maryam Mohammed. Nawawi is alleged to have committed the crime with Mr. Ibrahim Isah and Habibu Abdullahi who work under him as a driver and aide serving as accomplices. …

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How Women Are Making Million Trafficking Girl Child In Abuja

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The story of how women are making millions out of trafficking girl child in Abuja weakens the mind when exposed to the wicked act of the actors behind the act. Trafficked from different parts of Nigeria to Abuja; the capital city of Nigeria, the “madams” who are behind the act smile at the bank while trafficked girl child …

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Scam alert: Kebbi Lawmaker Constructs A Single Borehole For N20 Million As Constituency Project

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Mr. Ademu Aliero, a Nigerian lawmaker from Kebbi state has been caught in the act that seems he might have shortchanged his people. The lawmaker has facilitated the construction of a single borehole for N20 million as a constituency project. Under the deal, Aliero nominated the sum of N20 million for two boreholes as a …

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Nigerian Community Where Twins Are Branded Evil, Killed

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One of the acclaimed achievements of Mary Slessor, the pre-colonial Scottish missionary to Nigeria, was that she stopped the killing of twins. However, in the Basa Komo community in Kwali Area Council FCT of Abuja-Nigeria capital city,  among the Gbajingala clan, it is totally unacceptable and an abomination to give birth to a twin, and …

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Abuja Mining Sites Where Women, Children, Break Rocks For Survival

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Sixteen-year-old Paulina and her mother Ladi Ahmed, are living on breaking rocks and selling them. At Ushaffa village in Bwari Area Council in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, numerous women break rocks and make money from it; literally a very hard way of earning between N5,000 to N10,000 a day, if they sell rock …

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How Corruption Took Over Nigeria School Feeding Program

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Some Nigerians have expressed dissatisfaction over Nigeria’s school feeding program describing it as a scam. Mr. Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria Vice President launched the program at Abuja, the country’s capital. At the launch, the Nigerian government said the scheme is part of the N500 billion Social Investment Program to address poverty, improve the health and education …

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