Special Reports/ Interviews

Shocking: Nigeria agency, NALDA pays N18.43 million for a single borehole

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

A Nigerian agency, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) in a clear example of corruption has spent N18.43 million to construct a single borehole in Ekiti State. In what appears to be a shocking example of corruption that has played a major role in stunting Nigeria’s development NALDA spent N73,735,368.00 to construct four boreholes …

Shocking: Nigeria agency, NALDA pays N18.43 million for a single borehole Read More »

Shocking: Water Resources Ministry pays N28.2 million for a single borehole

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

Nigeria’s Ministry of Water Resources has spent N28.2 million to construct a single borehole in Gombe State in what appears a shocking example of contract inflation that has helped undermine the country’s ability to achieve development. Drilling a single borehole in Gombe State averages below N2.5 million. A hydrology firm told MAWA Foundation that amount …

Shocking: Water Resources Ministry pays N28.2 million for a single borehole Read More »

Extra: Nigeria’s Agric Ministry pays resource person N18.3 million for a single training

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

The Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture has paid the sum of N18.3 million to a resource person for a single training. Under the deal, the Agric ministry, using the Federal College of Horticulture, Dadin-Kowa in Gombe State, paid the sum of N18,329,397.51 million to Ice Target Global Limited as a resource person to carry out training …

Extra: Nigeria’s Agric Ministry pays resource person N18.3 million for a single training Read More »

Multi-million-naira Edo community road washes away two months after completion

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

A multi-million Ohanmi community road in Edo state has been washed away by rain two months after it was completed by the contractor, Messrs Hunslow International Limited, and supervised by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The road that is located at the Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State links many …

Multi-million-naira Edo community road washes away two months after completion Read More »

Media framing of Fulani as bandits, kidnappers: myth or reality? 

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

Research work by MAWA Foundation The fundamental function media play in a society is to make available to the people information, and expose them to the knowledge of issues that happen around them, and that shapes the way they think or act concerning their government, the society, business environment, culture, norms and other issues affecting …

Media framing of Fulani as bandits, kidnappers: myth or reality?  Read More »

Community in Abuja inhabitants drink from a dirty pond

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

Residents of Dota -Kaida Tsoho community in Dobi ward at Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja the Nigerian capital city rely solely on the dirty ponds as their only source of drinking water. This is even as the residents are recounting how they have written several letters to the government (Area Council Authority) begging that they …

Community in Abuja inhabitants drink from a dirty pond Read More »

Substandard construction: Rainstorm destroys bridges in Bauchi

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

MAWA FOUNDATION has learned how rainstorms destroyed two bridges in Bauchi State as a result of substandard construction. Local sources told MAWA via telephone conversations that the bridge connecting roads leading to Jos and Kano was destroyed on Thursday night after heavy rainfall. Mr. Ibrahim Isa, one of the locals, told MAWA that the bridge …

Substandard construction: Rainstorm destroys bridges in Bauchi Read More »

Katsina lawmaker gets N80 million, distributes less than 100 fertilizer bags

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

Mr. Bello Mandiya, a lawmaker from Katsina State has distributed less than 100 bags of fertilizers as a constituency project after getting N80 million allocation from the Federal Government. The lawmaker, who is representing the people of Katsina South at the Senate, told party loyalist in his constituent that got the fertilizer that he will …

Katsina lawmaker gets N80 million, distributes less than 100 fertilizer bags Read More »

Insecurity: How Abuja residents pay local vigilante to secure them

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

Residents of Dutse Alhaji in Bwari Area Council, Abuja, the Nigerian capital city have resorted to the use of local vigilantes to secure their environment as insecurity worsens. The residents are been robbed every night without the police making real efforts to secure the people and stop the incessant robbery. Some of the residents who …

Insecurity: How Abuja residents pay local vigilante to secure them Read More »

Special Report: IPPIS worse scam ever, Nigeria Workers recount

Leave a Comment / Special Reports/ Interviews / By

Nigerian workers continue to recount how Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPISP) created by the Nigerian Government to address fraud in the country’s civil service management, has since turned out to be the worse form of scam in the country’s history. MAWA FOUNDATION in this Special Report spoke to civil servants, who described the …

Special Report: IPPIS worse scam ever, Nigeria Workers recount Read More »