Climate Change and Environment

Climate change reduces Banana production,

Climate change reduces Banana production, affects child education in FCT community

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Small-scale farmers at the Bmuko Community in Bwari Area Council of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have continued to lament how climate change is affecting Banana production and impacting their children’s education. Mr. Liberty Oseni, the Coordinator of MAWA Foundation, under the organization’s “Community Voice Project” led a team of journalists and researchers to the …

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Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

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Although there has been a huge conversation and investments made in climate change at the global, national, and local levels, rural women in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the Nigerian capital, do not believe climate change is real and consider it as fake. For many of them, climate change discussion is nothing but connivance with the …

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

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

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Residents of the Bmuko community in Bwari Area Council of  Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are accusing a Chinese company of contributing hugely to climate change that is destroying the environment, affecting their livelihoods, and exposing them to dangerous public health. Mmuko is about a kilometre away from the Tipper Garage, opposite Dutse Mkaranta along …

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No justice for Kogi community five years after exposing devastating environmental impact of mining

No justice for Kogi community five years after exposing devastating environmental impact of mining

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The Nigerian government is yet to bring to justice perpetrators of terrible devastating environmental impact on Okobo community as a result of mining activities,  years after it was exposed TheCable Newspaper. Shortly after the devastating environmental impact on the Okobo community in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State was exposed, Mr. Kayode Fayemi, the …

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How inequality affects women in mining sector economic empowerment

How inequality affects women in mining sector economic empowerment

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One of the areas inequality affects women and makes them economically disadvantaged is the mining sector. And, this appears to be a long-time practice that is not likely to go away until huge investments in advocacy and engagements are made. In this report by Mr. Liberty Oseni, the Coordinator of MAWA -Foundation focusing on how …

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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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