Women farmers are worst hit as a result of fuel subsidy removal by the Nigerian government under the supervision of Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian president. According to them, the action exposes women farmers to poverty and threatens food security. An official of the Small-scale Women Farmers Organization in Nigeria (SWOFON), who spoke to the …
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The Media Advocacy West Africa – MAWA Foundation rejects fuel subsidy removal because fuel subsidy is energy security that we cannot do without. Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian president on assumption of office on the 29th day of May 2023, announced a total removal of fuel subsidy; an action that has led to fuel selling …
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Documents from the Federal Ministry of Finance have shown that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has spent the sum of N2.78 billion on farmers’ registration as part of its COVID-19 intervention programme. In the document made available by the Ministry of Finance in response to the Freedom of Information (FOI) request, part of …
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Mr. Suileman Abubakar has narrated how People With Disabilities (PWDs) are discriminated against and not allowed to enter public offices at the Abaji Area Council of Abuja, in the capital city of Nigeria. Abubakar who spoke in pain during MAWA Foundation community capacity training on the demand for raising voices for accountability in the Abaji …
The British media and their development communication experts care less about exposing the role their leaders in collaboration with their institutions play in assisting the transfer of huge illicit funds from Nigeria and other African states to the UK. This is even as they are happy to glamorize and show the world how African leaders …
The Media Advocacy West Africa (MAWA Foundation) has established a Community Climate Advocacy Network across the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory FCT-Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. The Community Climate Advocacy Network which comprises Area Council environmental officials, community change agents, and journalists from each of the six Area Councils, was created as part …
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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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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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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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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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