Gella Local Government located in Mubi South area of Adamawa State has been caught in the act of sharing COVID-19 palliatives to only the government officials, MAWA Foundation has learned. The palliatives that are meant to be shared among the poor that are suffering the COVID-19 impact are kept in a warehouse while only the …
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Officials of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), saddled with the responsibility of National Identification Number (NIN) enrolment and issuance, National e-ID card issuance, identity verification as well as data harmonization and authentication have been caught selling enrolment forms to residents who want to be captured. The officials were caught selling enrolment forms at the …
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A Nigerian agency, Nigeria Stored Product Research Institute in an act that seems like corruption has constructed a mini civic centre at the sum of N100 million. Tracka, a public accountability organization that visited the project site said the agency has since constructed and delivered the project at Ahia Eke Oloko village in Ikwuano Local …
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The struggle for COVID-19 survival is increasingly leading to child prostitution in New Karu, Ado, Masaka, and Aso communities of Nasarawa state. At New Karu, Grace Iyadun, a 14 years old girl while speaking to the Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation), said she was forced into prostitution to raise money and feed her family, …
Students of the Special Education School in Tudun Maliki community of Kano State are learning sitting on the floor in a classroom that is near collapse and completely dilapidated. This is even as the Kano state government in the last decades had spent billions of naira in education, an amount that is yet to reflect …
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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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Abaji area council women in the Abuja community have said the only way family planning can be effective and child spacing achieved is when their husbands are educated about its importance. The women who spoke during a training conducted by the MAWA Foundation to empower rural voices said many of the women cannot keep to …
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Residents of Ilobu and commuters along the Osogbo – Ogbomoso road in Orolu Local Government Area of Osun state are groaning, as the N538 million Ojutu bridge has been abandoned. The construction of the bridge was awarded to Preconsmith Construction Limited in March 2017. Tall as the initiative was, residents told the Urban Alert team …
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak brought lots of economic hardship and predicament with many losing jobs and business, it brought a boost in mobile money and its acceptance in communities across Nigeria especially in Nasarawa state and Abuja communities. Mobile money operators at the Ado area of Nasarawa state have said they are making good …
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The Kogi state government in its 2020 budget allocated the sum of N300 million for a water project in Idah, Ajaka, and other communities, a project called “Eastern Water Project Scheme”. Other communities the government said the water project will be carried out are Ejule, Odu-Okpakili, Ankpa, Agaliga, Imane, Abejukolo, Anyigba, and Oguma. Checks by …