Dutse Alhaji’s first gate located directly opposite Zenith Bank on the right-hand side when driving from Abuja – city centre to Bwari Area Council of FCT has become terribly deplorable. The terrible portion of the road that is less than two kilometres from First Gate to the popular Koro Mosque has become a predicament for …
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Women farmers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Nigerian capital city are recounting how climate change impact is hitting them and widening economic inequality in the communities they live. The small holders’ women farmers who spoke to MAWA-Foundation at Jiwa community, in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Kuje and Abaji recounted how shortage in …
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Residents in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Nigerian capital city have continued to lament how poor infrastructure is worsening their living conditions and making their lives miserable. At Dutse Alhaji, Dutse Bokuma, Sokale, and Dawaki communities located at Bwari Area Council of FCT, residents in different accounts narrated a similar experience of how deplorable …
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The Nigeria Land Value Taxation Baseline Study supported by the International Union for Land Value Taxation is a document that examines the experience of Nigeria’s Land Value Taxation using the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) namely, Abaji, Abuja Municipal, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kwali, and Kuje Area Councils as a pilot study. In …
Pregnant women and children are dying in Shanagu Ikwa community in Gwagwalada Area Council of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over poorly equipped hospital. Residents say they are worried because an estimated 2,500 population from the community depend on the hospital for healthcare delivery. Mr. Usman Mohammed, a community champion who raised the alarm over …
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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 …
Deshi Paikon Kore Community Children of Gwagwalada Area Council in Nigeria Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are learning under a despicable condition that is not fit for kids’ education. A visit to the LEA Primary School Deshi Paikon Kore shows the deplorable condition of the classrooms with kids seen learning on a bare floor. Monitng a …
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Farmers at the Jiwa community in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria’s capital city have continued to recount how they are losing their beans farm to a change in weather, a condition they said was brought upon them by the climate change. The farmers who spoke to MAWA-Foundation at a …
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Farmers at the Chibiri community in Kuje Area Council of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have continued to recount how they are losing their harvest which is the means of their livelihood to hotness in weather conditions that they say are being propelled by climate change. Driving into the community from Gwagwalada Area Council which is …
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Farmers at the Kwaita community in Kwali Area Council of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria’s capital city have continued to recount how they lost over 65% of their yam harvest to excessive heat caused by hot weather as a result of climate change. In the community that is predominantly farmers located a few kilometres from …