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

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

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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

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / Audu Liberty Oseni

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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“Forgotten Classrooms: The Story of Adeka’s Children”

1 Comment / Education / Audu Liberty Oseni

In the heart of Agatu Local Government Area in Benue State, lies a fading structure called Adeka Primary School. Once a place of promise, it now stands with broken walls, missing windows, and a roof so tattered that sunlight and rain take turns teaching the children. Monit NG, a public accountability NGO in Nigeria, has

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Land Value Tax in FCT Community Viewpoint

Land Value Development Financing: FCT-Abuja Community Viewpoint

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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

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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

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Tatagyiya FCT community relies on dirty ponds for drinking water

Leave a Comment / Health / Audu Liberty Oseni

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

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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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