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Need for participatory communication: Abuja requires strategic plan, not master plan

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The Federal Capital Territory Administration continues to rely on the restoration of Abuja master plan as a justification to carry out demolition and forced eviction. This government behaviour has resulted in the forced eviction of a greater number of persons from their homes. For instance, between 2003 and 2008, the Abuja authority demolished homes and […]

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Land Value Tax in FCT Community Viewpoint

Land Value Development Financing: FCT-Abuja Community Viewpoint

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The Nigeria Land Value Development Financing Baseline Study supported by the International Union for Land Value Taxation is a document that examines the experience of Nigeria’s Land Value Development Financing using the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) namely, Abaji, Abuja Municipal, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kwali, and Kuje Area Councils as a pilot

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Subsidy Removal: Where Are The 2012 Activists?

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As Nigerians now buy a litre of petrol at N900 it becomes fundamental to interrogate the action that led to the 2012 uprising where Nigerians poured out on the streets when the government of Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, former Nigerian president increased the price of petrol from N65 to N141 per litre. The Civil society organizations,

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The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja

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The poor farmers that spoke to MAWA-Foundation at the FO1 area of Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of FCT, in different narratives, gave accounts of how their lands located around the Military Pension Board along Daughters of Charity Hospital were taking over without any form of compensation. They gave accounts of how they lost ownership

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Nigeria’s Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency

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The Nigerian state’s non-compliance with disclosure continues to be a challenge confronting its extractive industry transparency. Nowhere does non-compliance happen like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), saddled with the responsibility of managing and harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas. The non-disclosure by the NPPC in the way it carries out activities in the extractive sector

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Kano Gas Project: It is the Citizen’s Right to Know Extractive Deal

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Residents of the Rigar Duka community in Kura Local Government Area of Kano state say they do not have concrete information regarding the Gas Pipeline project taking place in their area. This affirms the secrecy in the activities of Nigeria’s extractive deal that makes it seem citizens have no right to information about the extractive

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NNPC refuses disclosure, abandons Jos Oil Pipeline Project

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) saddled with the responsibility of managing and harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas in what appears an attitude to a disregard for accountability that has helped undermine its country’s extractive sector, has refused to disclose contract deals, and has abandoned the Jos oil pipeline project. Under the deal, NNPC awarded

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The Role of Participatory Communication in Community Development

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Policymakers, development agents, and communicators often disregard the involvement of the people in the dialogue and negotiation on issues affecting them. Rather, we often impose ready-made solutions as a replacement for local knowledge and solutions. Policymakers and development practitioners often fail to realize that participatory communication holds the key to an inclusive decision-making process that

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Homegrown solution impacting Nigeria’s energy transition, Climate mitigation

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Homegrown solutions are impacting how energy is produced and used in Nigeria, playing a key role in the country’s energy transition and climate change mitigation. It is contributing to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and improving energy security. Ndiir Solomon, a high school student of Kusaki College in Benue State in Benue State, North-Central

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International Equinox Earth Day Celebration 2024: Earth belongs to everyone

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Annually, there is a global international Equinox Earth Day Celebration to renew our collective commitment to honour the Earth and promote peace for all to live and enjoy the Earth that belongs to us all. As we celebrate the Equinox Earth Day on this 19th day of March 2024, we must hold on to our

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