In the last three months, I have written three articles showing clearly how FUEL SUBSIDY removal was the greatest error. Information that the Tinubu government paid N169.4 billion as a subsidy in August this year to keep the pump price at N620 per litre, exonerates my stand on subsidy removal. Tinubu and his team knows …
The Media Advocacy West Africa – MAWA Foundation calls on Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President to review his policy on fuel subsidy removal. This is because, the fact before us and other countries’ experience has shown fuel subsidy is energy security that countries cannot do without, because of the vital role it plays in …
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Those who think and believe that Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian president will improve his country’s economy by creating jobs and reducing poverty, will remain in the eternal wish, as that will not happen under him. Mr. Tinubu makes no pretense about his alignment with the neo-liberal model of development. His policies support a naked …
Recent political events in West Africa – Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Faso and Niger, all Francophone countries – must be welcomed as a new phase in African resistance to Western colonialism shrouded as “helping uncivilized natives”, “the white man’s mission”, “the civilizing mission” “religious proselytization” and “godly mission”. These are nothing but organized, systematic, and …
Residents in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Nigerian capital city have continued to lament how poor infrastructure is worsening their living conditions and making their lives miserable. At Dutse Alhaji, Dutse Bokuma, Sokale, and Dawaki communities located at Bwari Area Council of FCT, residents in different accounts narrated a similar experience of how deplorable …
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The Nigeria Land Value Taxation Baseline Study supported by the International Union for Land Value Taxation is a document that examines the experience of Nigeria’s Land Value Taxation 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 study. In …
August 27, 2023 The Media Advocacy West Africa (MAWA-Foundation) on August 27, 2023, appointed Alanna Hartzok to its Board of Trustees Members. Alanna Hartzok is an educator, activist, and lecturer in the areas of economic justice, land rights, and land-value tax reform. She is vast in knowledge and has given presentations in approximately 40 countries …
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Indigenous people in six communities of Ogun state say they are languishing over an electricity project by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, (TCN) that has pushed them into poverty without compensation. The indigenous people at Otooto, Asipa, Oke Ata, Tonowo, Shoyoye, and Shogbamu communities in Owode Local Government Area of Ogun state, say they lost …
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Three years after, the indigenous people of the Onuachi Umuezeoka community in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi state are still languishing over the forceful takeover of their lands and demolition of their homes by the state over the construction of an airport by the state government. About 25 indigenous people who spoke to …
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Nigeria’s Ministry of Water Resources in what appears predominant practices that have helped undermine the country’s development has abandoned N336.6 million dam project in Katsina State. Under the deal, Water Resources Ministry in the 2022 budget, allocated the sum of N336.6 million for the construction of Jare Earth Dam in Bakori Local Government Area of …
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