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Nsukka Women Farmers Worse Hit by Climate Change

Nsukka Women Farmers Worse Hit by Climate Change

Women farmers who cultivate Pepper at Edemu Ani community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Southeast Nigeria, appear to be the worst hit by shortage of rainfall as a result of climate change. The women who cannot drill boreholes for irrigation farming and are largely dependent on tanker drivers to water their farms …

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Enugu community children learn under miserable pitiable condition

Enugu community children learn under miserable pitiable condition

Children of the Isigwe Ugbawka, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, are learning under pitiable miserable conditions. In pictures shared by Tracka, a public accountability organization, the children were seen with their teacher receiving lessons while sitting on the floor in a classroom that was nearly collapsing on their heads. From Tracka’s …

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Dilapidated Enugu school children learn sitting on floor, Bagco Bags

Dilapidated Enugu school children learn sitting on floor, Bagco Bags

Children in the Ugbakwa community at Nkanu East Local Government of Enugu State are learning sitting on a bare floor, Bagco Bags, and stones as their school becomes dilapidated. The Enugu Ugbakwa Community Primary School is so dilapidated that the kids sit on Bagco Bags, others on stones and bare a floor to learn in …

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Deplorable Enugu community hospital after govt N22.39 billion health allocation

Residents of Obeleagu Umanna in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State lack access to health care delivery as a government hospital in their area has since become deplorable. The Obeleagu Umanna community hospital has continued to be this deplorable even as the Enugu State government approved N22.39 billion for direct healthcare intervention in three …

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Constituency Project Corruption: Enugu lawmaker road washes away two months after completion

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 …

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Enugu Awkunanaw Street, dilapidated, death trap

Awkunanaw Street in Enugu, the Enugu state capital has become a death trap despite the N43 billion state capital allocations in the year 2019 and other allocations that have been made from 2020 to 2021. Residents of Awkunanaw Street located by the Etudo area are lamenting how they go through predicament using the road to …

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N22.3 million Enugu Community Bridge fixed by FERMA tears off one month after repair

A bridge fixed by the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), at the price of N22.3 million in a community at Enugu State tears off one month after its repair. The Federal Government had last year allocated the sum of N22, 339,550 to FERMA, an agency saddled with the mandate for monitoring and maintaining all Federal …

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Enugu Community Where Women Are Made Shrine Property Forcefully Married To Old Men

Alo Uno community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu state has continued to practice a culture that allows women to be made properties belonging to community shrine while they are forcefully married out to old men who cannot afford a wife. MAWA Foundation, who visited the community leaned that young ladies were forcefully married …

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