Communication Lab

Welcome to Communication Lab, the Centre for Development Communication’s hub for rigorous analysis, research, and reflection on development communication. Here, we explore what communication should be—beyond publicity and PR—drawing on field experience, research, and theory to provide insights, resources, and guidance for practitioners, scholars, and policymakers. This is where ideas meet practice, shaping the future of participatory and transformative communication

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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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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Investigation: How Abuja Madams Make Huge Income Trafficking Girls From Village For Prostitution

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Miss Christiana Okojie has narrated how she was deceived by her aunt on the promise of given her job and was made to leave the Auchi area of Edo state for Abuja the Nigerian capital city not knowing she was coming to engage in sex worker and pay her Madam N14, 000 every week. Okonje

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MAWA Foundation Builds Local Capacity In Public Accountability

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The Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA Foundation), as part of its core mandate in empowering local communities to demand accountability from their leaders, trained community residents. The various pieces of training were conducted in three communities in Abuja, Mpape, Yangoji, and Kanzo. The pieces of training were meant to build the capacity of community-based

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