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 …
The N50 million Kebbi State irrigation project has been abandoned, MAWA Foundation has learned. The sum of N50 million was allocated to the project in the 2020 budget as a Zonal Intervention Project, popularly known as a constituency project. The project nominated by Mr. Yahaya Abdullahi, a Senator from Kebbi State was for the rehabilitation …
The Port Harcourt Aba express road has remained abandoned 12 years after it was awarded under the administration of Mr. Musa Ya’adua the late Nigerian President. The road links Port Harcourt-Aba express road to Obehie-Azumini-Ukanafun in Abia and the Akwa Ibom States respectively. The road awarded as post amnesty project in 2009 under the late …
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Travelers during the Christmas Yuletide were groaning in Lokoja, the Kogi State city centre as the road is in terrible condition with many struggling to pass through while cars that broke down were seen parked by the roadside. The Lokoja Ganaja area is completely in a dilapidated condition leaving travelers going to eastern and south-south …
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Mr. Seyi Makinde, the Oyo State Governor has been caught in the act of sharing COVID-19 palliatives to party loyalists and civil servants. MAWA Foundation learned that the food items donated by CACOVID to be shared as COVID-19 palliatives were not distributed and were kept in the state secretariat. Civil servants, party loyalists were seen …
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