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MAWA establishes community climate change advocacy network

MAWA establishes community climate change advocacy network

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The Media Advocacy West Africa (MAWA Foundation) has established Community Climate Change Advocacy Network across the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory FCT-Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. The Community Climate Change Advocacy Network which comprises Area Council environmental officials, community change agents, and journalists from each of the six Area Councils, was created as …

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N119.4 million Agric Min Kuje road fails months after completion

N119.4 million Agric Min Kuje road fails months after completion

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The Nigeria Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in what appears corruption that has helped undermine Nigeria’s development has constructed a substandard road at the cost of N119.4 million. The project was constructing a 1.5-kilometre asphaltic road at Pasali 2 community Gaube farmland extension in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory-Abuja. The …

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Denied Farming on Their Ancestral Land The Anguish of Abuja Indigenous People

Denied Farming on Their Ancestral Land: The Anguish of Abuja Indigenous People

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For over four decades, dozens of Abuja indigenous people have been in conflicts with the Federal Government and Abuja Development Authorities over land ownership, access, and control. In the conflicts, indigenous ancestral lands have been forcefully taken over by the government and its officials, denying indigenous farmers access to land, forcing them into poverty and …

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Water Resources Ministry abandons N47 million road construction

Water Resources Ministry abandons N47 million road construction

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The Water Resource Ministry in what appears a common practice in Nigeria that has helped undermine the country’s growth and development has abandoned N47.89 million 3 Kilometre road even after money has been paid to the contractor. Under the deal, the Water Resources Ministry in collaboration with the Lower Benue River Basin Development Authority is …

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Water Resources N51 million road wears off a month after completion

Water Resources N51 million road wears off a month after completion

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A road awarded and supervised by Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Water Resources has begun wearing off less than one month after it was completed, as observed during project tracking. Under the deal, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Water Resources awarded the construction of a 1.3km Road and drainage in the Angwan Soso community of Gwagwalada Area …

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MAWA-Foundation Announces Appointment of a New Board Member

MAWA-Foundation Announces Appointment of a New Board Member

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January 6, 2023 MAWA-Foundation Announces Appointment of a New Board Member The Media Advocacy West Africa (MAWA-Foundation) on January 6, 2023, appointed Mr. Charles Kojo Vandyck to its Board of Trustees Members. Charles Kojo Vandyck is a social justice activist and thought leader with expertise in strengthening civil society resilience, sustainability, and leadership. Charles serves …

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National Institute of Construction Technology and Management (NICTM)

How NICTM awarded N23.58 million contract to a fake company

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Media Advocacy West Africa (MAWA-Foundation) has uncovered how the National Institute of Construction Technology and Management (NICTM) awarded N23.58 million contract for the supply of furniture to schools in Burutu Federal Constituency of Delta state to Spatruck Integrated Company Limited, a fake company that never existed. Worse still, NICTM in pretense to legitimize this kind …

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Despite receiving N90 billion ECA funds in one year, Bayelsa ranks highest in poverty

Despite receiving N90 billion ECA funds in one year, Bayelsa ranks highest in poverty

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Bayelsa state with 2.5 million populations and eight Local Government Areas ranks second poorest state in Nigeria despite receiving N90 billion in Excess Crude Account (ECA) revenue from the federal government in 2022 and that excludes other revenues totaling millions of Naira. ECA is money from oil revenue in excess of the budget benchmark of …

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The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja

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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MAWA Foundation wins MEEDAN Check Global Independent Media Response Fund

MAWA Foundation wins MEEDAN Independent Media Response Fund

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The Media Advocacy West Africa (MAWA-Foundation) is happy to win Meedan Check Global Independent Media Response Fund. It is a new climate misinformation fund, an initiative designed to respond to the hyperlocal needs of communities and media practitioners in North-Africa Western-Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific region. MAWA-Foundation made it …

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