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Bauchi hospital health workers contribute money, buy drugs to treat patients

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Despite huge resources expended on health by the Bauchi state government, Bagaranti community hospital is in unimaginable deplorable condition, forcing health workers to contribute monies to buy drugs and treat patients on admission. The community hospital that is located at the Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi state has no bed, a condition that makes …

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How rural community youth are boosting Agriculture using ICT-technology

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Most youth, particularly the educated ones, do not see farming as a reasonable thing to do and those who are farmers are being adjudged as poor persons with limited chances of being successful in society. However,  Audio conferencing is aiding Agricultural extension in northern Ghana and is making youth in this village embrace farming. Savannah Young …

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Rural residents addressing healthcare using mobile clinic

Rural residents addressing healthcare using mobile clinic

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As health sector worsens and access to healthcare delivery becomes more difficult in Nigerian rural communities, mobile clinic initiative appears to be providing healthcare alternatives in the rural settlements. Caritas Nigeria has deployed mobile clinics through its E-Ranger bikes to carry out meningitis vaccination across rural communities in Nigeria. Also, in Bulanyaki communit­y, Sokoto State …

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We are the worse hit: COVID-19 made us poorer – Rural Farmers narrate

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Abuja residents have continued to recount how the Coronavirus outbreak destroyed their business and made them poorer. Mrs. Uche Rita, resident of Zone 6 in Dutse Alhaji Area of Buhari Area Council Abuja, the Nigerian capital city who spoke to Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA Foundation) in her residence narrated how coronavirus has destroyed …

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How Mobile Toilets addressing sanitation, open defecation, creating jobs

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The invention of a mobile toilet in Nigeria by DMT Mobile Toilet Company with the conceived idea by Isaac Durojaiye a.k.a Otunba Gadaffi (SAN) has taken another dimension that the inventor never envisaged. At present, DMT Mobile Toilet has invested over N75 million. From 2002 to now DMT Mobile Toilets company has manufactured more than …

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Govt Science School Akpanya students learn under terrible condition

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Students of Government Science Secondary School Akpanya in Igalamela Local Government Area of Kogi state learn under terrible conditions despite multi-million education allocation by the state government. A visit to the school by MAWA Foundation shows the students learn under destroyed floors and leaking roofs. Apart from the leaking roofs and destroyed floors, the school …

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Shocking: ICRC, Nigerian agency pays firm N21.44 million to review agreement document

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A Nigerian agency, the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission in what appears an example of contract inflation has paid a firm the sum of N21.44 million to review agreement document. This is even as a senior official of the agency, told MAWA Foundation that he is not aware of any procurement processes followed before the contract …

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Nigerian Agency, BPP pays N17.9 million for a single website

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A Nigerian agency, Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) in a shocking example of contract inflation that has helped undermined the country’s development and rising cost of governance has built a single website at the sum of N17.9 million. The agency saddled with the responsibilities to provide legal and institutional framework and professional capacity for public …

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Ekiti Lawmaker multi-million naira community hospital constituency project abandoned

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A multi-million Naira community hospital built by the Office of Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Nigeria (OSSAP-SDGs) as a constituency project facilitated by Biodun Olujimi has been abandoned. Biodun Olujimi, using the OSAP-MDGs nominated the construction of a community hospital as her constituency project. The hospital that is a …

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