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Special Report How Farmers Lost Farmlands to Herders Crisis

Special Report : How Farmers Lost Farmlands to Herders Crisis

As the crisis among Herders and Farmers increasingly becomes unabated, farmers are losing lives, which has forced many of them to abandon their farmlands, losing crops and revenues. MAWA FOUNDATION in this Special Report examined the impact of Herder’s crisis on the farmers and its implication on food security. In this Special Report, MAWA interviewed …

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Bauchi children learn sitting on wooden planks despite N10 million FG allocation

Children in the Gizaki community at Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Northeast Nigeria have continued to learn sitting on the wooden planks as the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) is yet to supply desks to the primary school despite N10 million that has been allocated to school furniture. This is even as the …

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How AEDC Officials Illegally Collect Money From Customers To Fix Transformer

In what appears to be the norm which has become an internalized corruption in the way electricity companies carry out their activities in Nigeria, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) officials are collecting monies from consumers to help them fix their electricity. AEDC officials at the Dutse Alhaji branch are the latest offender, the officials had …

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COVID – 19 impact: Parents Pull Kids Out of School

Parents suffering the COVID-19 impact are finding it very difficult to cope with the economic challenges brought by the pandemic, hence pulled their children out of school. Sure Start school has said parents of their pupils who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have pulled out their kids from the school because they could not …

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Despite N863.7 billion Akwa-Ibom community risks wooden bridge

Residents of Mbiakong Uruan community in Uruan Local Government Area of Akwa-Ibom State risk their lives on a wooden bridge that is near collapse despite the sum of N863.7 billion spent by the state government in three years as capital expenditure. Akwa-Ibom Online that exposed the dilapidated nature of the bridge, says community residents who …

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Is conflict Entrepreneur fuelling insecurity in Nigeria?

Documents from the budget office show the Nigerian military in seven years received the sum of N4.5 trillion. The funds were received from 2012 to 2019. Despite the huge amount that has been expended on the country’s military, insecurity has continued to be predominant with the northeast and northwest been the most hit. This is even as …

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Four years after, Bayelsa community hospital donated by EU abandoned

A community health centre donated by the European Union (EU) to Onopa community in Bayelsa state in 2017 has been abandoned. This is even as the community residents go through hell in accessing healthcare as that is the only hospital in the area. Often, the community residents rely on patent medicine dealers to access medication, …

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Despite billion spent, Edo community Hospital in a terrible condition

A community Primary Health Care in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State state is in terrible condition despite billions of Naira expended by the state government on heath sector. For in stance, the Edo state government in the year 2020 approved the sum of N1 billion for Primary Health Care Reform and N1 …

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Jigawa community hospital collapses two years after commissioning

Over 300,000 residents of the Jigawa community have been denied access to health care as Senator Sambo Mohammed’s multi-million Primary Healthcare Centre constituency project that serves as their only means of healthcare collapses two years after it was completed and commissioned. Mr. Sambo Mohammed, a federal lawmaker from Jigawa state in the Senate, in 2019 …

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Despite N238.346 billion education expenditure, no school in Ogun community

Oloke Ali community in the Ajebandele area of Ogun State has no government public school despite the sum of N238.346 billion the state government had expended on education in three years. Because there is no government school in the area, the community has only one terrible dilapidated private school that serves as the only source …

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