Nigeria

Two Years of Tinubu's Presidency: A Legacy of Missed Opportunities

Tinubu’s Neoliberal Economic Model Will Not Lift Nigerians Out of Poverty

President Bola Tinubu’s economic agenda is built on a neoliberal foundation, rooted in the belief that free markets alone can drive growth and prosperity. But for a country like Nigeria, marked by mass poverty, weak infrastructure, and deep inequality, this model is not only unsuitable, it is dangerous. Tinubu’s alignment with neoliberalism is clear. His […]

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Indigenous Communication Central for Climate Change Adaptation among Rural Farmers

Indigenous Communication Central for Climate Change Adaptation among Rural Farmers

Interventions by government and development partners targeting rural farmers for climate change adaptation measures must deploy “Indigenous communication approaches” such as community gathering for information sharing, storytelling, elder teaching, and dance etc. Long practices have seen development partners engage communication consultants who consider communication as a one-sided approach where information is disseminated through radio jingles,

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Land Value Tax in FCT Community Viewpoint

Land Value Development Financing: FCT-Abuja Community Viewpoint

The Nigeria Land Value  Development Financing Baseline Study supported by the International Union for Land Value Taxation is a document that examines the experience of Nigeria’s Land Value Development Financing 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

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Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

Although there has been a huge conversation and investments made in climate change at the global, national, and local levels, rural women in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the Nigerian capital, do not believe climate change is real and consider it as fake. For many of them, climate change discussion is nothing but connivance with the

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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

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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

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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

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Empowering Rural Community Through Participatory Communication

Rural residents of Kanzo community in the Kuje Area Council of Abuja, the Nigerian capital city have commenced building their healthcare hospital after they were educated by th Centre for Development  Communiction – CDC (formerly  MAWA Fundation) in a community participatory communication on the importance of healthcare, healthy living, community organizing, and advocacy. The community had

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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.

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