MAWA Foundation

Land Value Tax in FCT Community Viewpoint

Land Value Tax in FCT: Community Viewpoint

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 …

Land Value Tax in FCT: Community Viewpoint Read More »

Subsidy Removal Where Are The 2012 Activists

Subsidy Removal: Where Are The 2012 Activists?

As Nigerians now buy a litre of petrol at N900 it becomes fundamental to interrogate the action that led to the 2012 uprising where Nigerians poured out on the streets when the government of Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, former Nigerian president increased the price of petrol from N65 to N141 per litre. The Civil society organizations, …

Subsidy Removal: Where Are The 2012 Activists? Read More »

FCT-Abuja community children learn under deplorable condition

FCT-Abuja community children learn under deplorable condition

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 …

FCT-Abuja community children learn under deplorable condition Read More »

My commitment to accountable governance, reason I founded MonitNG

My commitment to accountable governance, reason I founded MonitNG

Mr. Uadamen Ilevbaoje in an interview with MAWA-Foundation discloses that his passion for transparency and accountability in governance, and building strong civic engagement made him founded MonitNG. Read his views  Can you share the inspiration behind founding MonitNG and the specific problem it aims to address?  My name is Mr. Uadamen Ilevbaoje I am the …

My commitment to accountable governance, reason I founded MonitNG Read More »

The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja

The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja

The poor farmers that spoke to MAWA-Foundation at the FO1 area of Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of FCT, in different narratives, gave accounts of how their lands located around the Military Pension Board along Daughters of Charity Hospital were taking over without any form of compensation. They gave accounts of how they lost ownership …

The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja Read More »

Nigeria's Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency 

Nigeria’s Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency 

The Nigerian state’s non-compliance with disclosure continues to be a challenge confronting its extractive industry transparency. Nowhere does non-compliance happen like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), saddled with the responsibility of managing and harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas. The non-disclosure by the NPPC in the way it carries out activities in the extractive sector …

Nigeria’s Non-Compliance With Disclosure a Challenge to Extractive Transparency  Read More »

We are yet to effectively communicate climate chage

We are yet to effectively communicate climate change

In 2015, the Comity of Nations put in place the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change. The agreement is considered a landmark effort in addressing Climate Change, it is a binding agreement that brings together nations for a collective cause to embark on determining work to fight climate change and adapt …

We are yet to effectively communicate climate change Read More »

Tatagyiya FCT community relies on dirty ponds for drinking water

Tatagyiya FCT community relies on dirty ponds for drinking water

Residents of the Tatagyiya community in the Gwagwa area of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT-Abuja) Nigeria’s capital city rely on dirty ponds for safe drinking water. Monitng, civic public accountability exposed how the Tatagyiya community suffers a huge infrastructural deficit and relies on dirty ponds as a source of drinking water. We appeal …

Tatagyiya FCT community relies on dirty ponds for drinking water Read More »

NMDPRA awards Depot construction to a non-existent company

Retraction: NMDPRA awards Depot construction to a non-existent company

On the 16 day of May, 2024 we published a story “NMDPRA awards Depot construction to a non-existent company”.  Where we misrepresented Noretek Energy Limited as Novertek  Energy Limited. We hereby retract the said story. Our action is based on the explanation from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority ( NMDPRA) regarding the story. …

Retraction: NMDPRA awards Depot construction to a non-existent company Read More »

Sumpe FCT community relies on dirty streams for drinking water

Sumpe FCT community relies on dirty streams for drinking water

An estimated 1000 population of the Sumpe community in  Bwari Area Council of Federal Capital Territory (FCT-Abuja) Nigeria’s capital city relies on dirty streams for safe drinking water.  Monitng, civic public accountability exposed how the Sumpe community suffers a huge infrastructural deficit and relies on dirty streams as a source of drinking water.  We appeal …

Sumpe FCT community relies on dirty streams for drinking water Read More »