Community residents in Imo State are groaning as the state government has since abandoned Mgbidi/Ozara road in Oru West Local Government Area of the State. The locals in different accounts narrated how the contractor that was handling the road has since abandoned it leaving the community in a more suffering situation. On a visit to …
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Abuja residents are now calling on the government and other development partners to roll out interventions that will have to address poverty and inequality at their centre of implementation while pointing out that the poverty and inequity they’re facing are becoming unbearable. Some the of residents who spoke to MAWA-Foundation at Mbumoko, an informal settlement …
Abuja residents are lamenting over unbearable urban poor burden, which they say exposes them to hazardous living conditions as a result of poor sanitation, lack of employment, and personal security. A situation the residents say is an unbearable urban poor crisis that is creating huge inequality and poverty that is pushing many into crime. A …
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Residents of Akpanya, a community with the largest population in Igalamela Local Government Area of Kogi State are groaning over the deplorable nature of their road that is making lives difficult and affecting economic activities. The road that connects the community to Enugu State has been abandoned by the government for decades, making it become hugely …
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In what appears a common example in Nigeria where contractors and government officials collude to construct a substandard road, leaving monies meant for the project unaccounted for, a road constructed in Enugu community has been washed away by rain two months after it was completed. The road that is Mr. Cornelius Nnaji, Enugu lawmaker constituency …
A road facilitated by Mr. Mohammed Ari, a federal lawmaker from Nasarawa State as his constituency project has been washed away by rain a few weeks after its completion. The road that was constructed in the Toto community, Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa state was washed away by heavy rainfall. Nasarawa Mirror who brought …
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Over 3,000 inhabitants of Shongo Sarkin Yakki community in Gombe State have no water to drink as Water Resources Ministry has since abandoned N50 million water project in the area. This is even as the community inhabitants that are located in the Gombe Local Government Area of the state have been without water for over …
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The Nigerian Ministry of Transportation in what appears an act of corruption that has helped undermined development and growth in the country has abandoned N190 million freight project in Ogun State. In the deal, the Nigerian government last year set aside the sum of N190 million for the construction of a national freight office in …
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Onopa community in Bayelsa State is in unimaginable squalor after the state government in one year alone got N152.54 billion allocation from the Federal Government and N12.18 billion Internally Generated Revenue. Onopa community has a huge reflection of poverty with inhabitants living in pitiable squalor is 3 kilometres away from Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital. …
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The Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) has partnered with Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption (LTRC) — an initiative of the Brookings Institution and R4D — to investigate corruption allegations involving the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a federal government agency founded in 2000 to facilitate socio-economic development of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. Our work uncovers ways by …
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