The Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) is happy to receive the Henry Nxumalo Foundation grant. In the new grant, the African Investigative Journalism Conference, the Gates Foundation, and the Henry Nxumalo Foundation support MAWA-Foundation to undertake a reporting project that will uncover corruption in Nigeria’s health sector.
A critical examination of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), an agency established to facilitate development of the Niger Delta, shows a huge misappropriation of funds. The act is embedded and manifests prominently in contract awards, which has shown how the Commission breaches procurement laws, awards contracts to fake, unqualified companies, for community development. A …
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The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in what appears an example of contract inflation practice in Nigeria has spent the sum of N18.213 million to construct a single borehole at Goru community in Kebbi State. In what appears contract inflation and racketeering, the Works and Housing Ministry in an FOI response signed by …
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The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in what appears a shocking example of contract inflation that has helped undermine development in Nigeria has paid the sum of N82, 264,576.1, for the construction of a single security gate. The fence that was constructed at the Federal Polytechnic Adikpo in Benue State was awarded to M/S …
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The National Centre for Women Development, an agency under the Ministry of Women Affairs has spent the sum of N1 Billion as COVID-19 intervention programmes, documents from the Federal Ministry of Finance have shown. In the documents that were released by the Federal Ministry of Finance in a response to a Freedom of Information request, …
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The Sokoto Rima River Basin Development Authority says it has expended the sum of N57.55 million on hand pump borehole under the Zonal Intervention Project (ZIP) In a Freedom of Information (FOI) response to Tracka, Rima Basin claimed to have expended the sum of N57, 557,843.32 for the construction of hand pump boreholes in Zamfara …
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In a typical example of contract inflation that has helped undermine development in Nigeria, the Sokoto Rima River Basin Development Authority has constructed a single borehole for N159 .122 million. Under the deal, the Rima Basin implemented the project under the 2018 Zonal Intervention Project (ZIP) and awarded the contract to Hedeco Nigeria Limited, registered …
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As rural communities in West Africa continue to struggle with power challenges, rural villages in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal have embraced solar energy as an alternative to electricity supply. At the moment, over 80 rural communities in Senegal use solar energy, while in Mali 150 communities now use solar power. Going by the revelation …
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As investors in education build new schools across communities in Nigeria and the government brags about the increase in enrollment, little or no attention is been made to probe into the teachers’ welfare and how they feel over poor wages. In this Special Report, MAWA Foundation spoke to teachers in different schools to find out …
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Mr. Francis Waive, the Delta State lawmaker, Ministry of Water Resources, and Niger Delta RBDA have returned to the site a month after the MAWA Foundation story exposed how the Agbarho Grammer School project was abandoned after N59.63 million was paid to a contractor. MAWA Foundation had in September, in a report, supported by the …
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