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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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COVID -19: Social distance practice in Abuja makes no sense, 11 persons live in a single room – Urban slum residents

Residents of the Mpape community located at Bwari Area Council, five kilometres away from Abuja city centre have begun questioning social distancing considering that in some instances, 11 persons live in a single room. At the Ajegunle area of the informal settlement, Miss Blessed Okhar, a resident told MAWA FOUNDATION that in many of the …

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Abuja community residents go through hell accessing hospital

Residents of Dutse Alhaji in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, the Nigeria capital city, go through hell trying to access the only government hospital in their area. This is even as Mr. Musa Dikko, the Bwari Area Council chairman had since 2018 presented N4.7 billion budget to the council Assembly, and subsequent allocations made since …

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Dutse Alhaji, Abuja community where poor hygiene is killing children

A woman has continued to lament how her 10-year-old daughter died of cholera as a result of a dirty environment; MAWA FOUNDATION has leaned. Mrs. Ada Oyibo who lives in Zone one area of Dutse Alhaji, Bwari Area Council of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city narrated how her daughter contracted cholera and died because of the …

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Inequality a challenge to our economic liberation – Abaji women

Inequality a challenge to our economic liberation – Abaji women

Women in Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT-Abuja) have continued to lament how inequality placed on them by society is pushing them to poverty and contributing to what they described as a man-made predicament that is being sustained by culture. The women say a solution to what they term ‘unbearable inequality’ is …

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Chinese activities pushing climate change, exposing us to danger – FCT community

Chinese Mining Company Took Our Land, Destroying Environment – FCT Indigenous Community

Residents of the Bmuko community in Bwari Area Council of Abuja have continued to recount how Venus, a Chinese mining company, has taken over their land and driven them off their means of livelihood. Workers on the site who spoke to Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) narrated how their lands have been taken over …

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Scam alert: Kebbi Lawmaker Constructs A Single Borehole For N20 Million As Constituency Project

Mr. Ademu Aliero, a Nigerian lawmaker from Kebbi state has been caught in the act that seems he might have shortchanged his people. The lawmaker has facilitated the construction of a single borehole for N20 million as a constituency project. Under the deal, Aliero nominated the sum of N20 million for two boreholes as a …

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Nigerian Community Where Twins Are Branded Evil, Killed

One of the acclaimed achievements of Mary Slessor, the pre-colonial Scottish missionary to Nigeria, was that she stopped the killing of twins. However, in the Basa Komo community in Kwali Area Council FCT of Abuja-Nigeria capital city,  among the Gbajingala clan, it is totally unacceptable and an abomination to give birth to a twin, and …

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