Nigeria’s Ministry of Water Resources in what appears predominant practices that have helped undermine the country’s development has abandoned N336.6 million dam project in Katsina State. Under the deal, Water Resources Ministry in the 2022 budget, allocated the sum of N336.6 million for the construction of Jare Earth Dam in Bakori Local Government Area of …
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Mr. Osagie Ehanire, Nigeria’s Minister of Health in a shocking example of administrative rascality has commissioned an uncompleted hospital in Edo State. Mr. Osagie who served as a Minister of Health under the administration of Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, the former Nigeria president on the 19th day of December 2022 commissioned an uncompleted Children’s Emergency Unit …
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Politicians and the neo-liberal market fundamentalists engineered by the West have continued to celebrate and hail Mr. Bola Tinubu the Nigerian president for having the courage to remove fuel subsidy. They care less about how this policy is affecting the poor, destroying the economy, breeding poverty, and widening inequality. In this report, MAWA-Foundation visited markets, …
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Women farmers are worst hit as a result of fuel subsidy removal by the Nigerian government under the supervision of Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian president. According to them, the action exposes women farmers to poverty and threatens food security. An official of the Small-scale Women Farmers Organization in Nigeria (SWOFON), who spoke to the …
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The Media Advocacy West Africa – MAWA Foundation rejects fuel subsidy removal because fuel subsidy is energy security that we cannot do without. Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian president on assumption of office on the 29th day of May 2023, announced a total removal of fuel subsidy; an action that has led to fuel selling …
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Documents from the Federal Ministry of Finance have shown that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has spent the sum of N2.78 billion on farmers’ registration as part of its COVID-19 intervention programme. In the document made available by the Ministry of Finance in response to the Freedom of Information (FOI) request, part of …
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Residents of Kanzo community in Kuje Area Council of the Nigerian capital city are dying over none availability of a hospital. They say pregnant women and children are the greatest casualties with maternal and infant mortality on the rise. A visit to the community shows it has no hospital despite having existed for decades. The …
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Mr. Suileman Abubakar has narrated how People With Disabilities (PWDs) are discriminated against and not allowed to enter public offices at the Abaji Area Council of Abuja, in the capital city of Nigeria. Abubakar who spoke in pain during MAWA Foundation community capacity training on the demand for raising voices for accountability in the Abaji …