Special Reports/ Interviews

Community in Abuja inhabitants drink from a dirty pond

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 …

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Substandard construction: Rainstorm destroys bridges in Bauchi

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 …

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

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 …

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Insecurity: How Abuja residents pay local vigilante to secure them

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 …

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Special Report: IPPIS worse scam ever, Nigeria Workers recount

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 …

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Abuja residents groan as price of cooking gas soars

Abuja residents are now cut in the crossfire of battling the soaring price of food items and cooking gas as inflation in the country continues to go higher. MAWA FOUNDATION visited five cities in Abuja, Kubwa, Bwari, Dutse Alhaji, Karu, and Lugbe to find out the price of cooking gas and interview its users. At …

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Special Report How Farmers Lost Farmlands to Herders Crisis

Special Report : How Farmers Lost Farmlands to Herders Crisis

As the crisis among Herders and Farmers increasingly becomes unabated, farmers are losing lives, which has forced many of them to abandon their farmlands, losing crops and revenues. MAWA FOUNDATION in this Special Report examined the impact of Herder’s crisis on the farmers and its implication on food security. In this Special Report, MAWA interviewed …

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Nigerian Minister defends lawmaker in a video over a poorly constructed project

Mr. Clem Agba, the Nigeria Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, has defended Mr. Peter Akpatason, a lawmaker from Edo State over a trending video showing poorly constructed road and drainage by the lawmaker as his constituency project. Defending the lawmaker over a poorly constructed road and drainage that has generated a huge …

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Abuja community resort to local vigilante as insecurity worsens

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 any effort to secure the place and stop the incessant robbery. Some of the residents who …

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Abuja community drink from a dirty pond as only source of water

Residents of Kpoto community in Kuje Area Council of Abuja the Nigerian capital city continue to drink contaminated water from a dirty pond, despite the sum of N62.4 billion expended by the Abuja authority on capital projects in the year 2020. This is even as the community residents say many of them have developed various …

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