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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Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President on May 29th, 2023 during his inaugural speech scrapped the payment of fuel subsidy. That paved the way for an incessant rise in the price of commodities. A situation that has led to a rise in the cost of education with many schools increasing fees while commuting to school …
In the last three months, I have written three articles showing clearly how FUEL SUBSIDY removal was the greatest error. Information that the Tinubu government paid N169.4 billion as a subsidy in August this year to keep the pump price at N620 per litre, exonerates my stand on subsidy removal. Tinubu and his team knows …
The Media Advocacy West Africa – MAWA Foundation calls on Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President to review his policy on fuel subsidy removal. This is because, the fact before us and other countries’ experience has shown fuel subsidy is energy security that countries cannot do without, because of the vital role it plays in …
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Those who think and believe that Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian president will improve his country’s economy by creating jobs and reducing poverty, will remain in the eternal wish, as that will not happen under him. Mr. Tinubu makes no pretense about his alignment with the neo-liberal model of development. His policies support a naked …
Recent political events in West Africa – Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Faso and Niger, all Francophone countries – must be welcomed as a new phase in African resistance to Western colonialism shrouded as “helping uncivilized natives”, “the white man’s mission”, “the civilizing mission” “religious proselytization” and “godly mission”. These are nothing but organized, systematic, and …
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 change in weather conditions as a result of climate change is hitting Northern Nigerian ginger farmers the hardest resulting in the loss of income and rendering them poor. Farmers in Kaduna, north-west Nigeria in different accounts narrated how the change in weather as a result of climate change has negatively impacted their ginger farms. …
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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 …
Indigenous people in six communities of Ogun state say they are languishing over an electricity project by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, (TCN) that has pushed them into poverty without compensation. The indigenous people at Otooto, Asipa, Oke Ata, Tonowo, Shoyoye, and Shogbamu communities in Owode Local Government Area of Ogun state, say they lost …
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