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Scam alert: Nigerian agency builds a mini civic centre for N100 million

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A Nigerian agency, Nigeria Stored Product Research Institute in an act that seems like corruption has constructed a mini civic centre at the sum of N100 million. Tracka, a public accountability organization that visited the project site said the agency has since constructed and delivered the project at Ahia Eke Oloko village in Ikwuano Local …

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Scam alert: UBEC constructs two classrooms block for N18 million

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The Gombe lawmaker and UBEC in an act that appears to be a corrupt practice have built a two classrooms block at the price of N18 million. Mr. Karu Elisha, a federal lawmaker at the House of Representatives carried out the project as part of his constituency project at Jongori Baule Tula Primary School at …

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Special Report: How Struggle For COVID-19 Survival Leading To Child Prostitution In Nasarawa Communities

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The struggle for COVID-19 survival is increasingly leading to child prostitution in New Karu, Ado, Masaka, and Aso communities of Nasarawa state. At New Karu, Grace Iyadun, a 14 years old girl while speaking to the Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation), said she was forced into prostitution to raise money and feed her family, …

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How Katsina state government distributed COVID-19 palliatives to only party members

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The Katsina State Government has been caught in the act of distributing COVID-19 palliatives to only the party loyal members, MAWA Foundation has uncovered. That palliative that is fourth  round in the state were distributed among party loyalists. Tracka, a public accountability organisation tracking the COVID-19 palliatives and funds, has since uncovered the ill practice …

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Three dead in Ebonyi Varsity as authority forces GST exams inside one hall

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Three persons have died in Ebonyi State university as the school authority forced students from 10 faculties to write GST examination in a single hall. Witnesses, who are students that sat for the exam, gave same accounts of how they were packed inside a hall that has no ventilation. They, however, said as a result …

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Despite billions expended on education, Kano state students learn sitting on floor

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Students of the Special Education School in Tudun Maliki community of Kano State are learning sitting on the floor in a classroom that is near collapse and completely dilapidated. This is even as the Kano state government in the last decades had spent billions of naira in education, an amount that is yet to reflect …

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Enugu Community Where Women Are Made Shrine Property Forcefully Married To Old Men

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Alo Uno community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu state has continued to practice a culture that allows women to be made properties belonging to community shrine while they are forcefully married out to old men who cannot afford a wife. MAWA Foundation, who visited the community leaned that young ladies were forcefully married …

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School classrooms in Kano locked up, not in use five years after completion

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Completed school classrooms in Kano have been put under lock and not put to use five years after they were constructed. The three-block of classrooms that are three in number are situated at the Minjibir model school in the Mjb Local Government Area of Kano state and were facilitated by Mr. Bashir Baballe, a lawmaker …

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N1.12 billion Ukanafun Akwa Ibom hospital remains abandoned

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The N1.12 billion Ukanafun Akwa Ibom hospital has remained abandoned despite the sum of N800 million capital already released for the project. The Akwa-Ibom state government in 2008, released the sum of N800 million for the construction of a 50-bed cottage hospital in the Ukanafun area. Despite the fund release, the hospital construction remains abandoned …

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COVID-19: Nigeria Civil Defence says it spent N48 Million on hand sanitizer

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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) say it has spent the sum of N48 million for the purchase of hand sanitizer. An action the NSCDC said was to prevent and contain the spread of coronavirus among its personnel and Nigeria. The NSCDC, who categorized the hand sanitizer under the COVID-19 emergency procurement, says it is …

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