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Exposed: How Edo state govt diverting farmers loan using Sterling Bank

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MAWA Foundation has uncovered how the Edo State Government is diverting Agric Loans given to farmers using Sterling Bank. Under the deal, the Edo State government instructed Sterling Bank to restrict bank account of the farmers who benefited from the Agric Loan while the government is withdrawing the money without the farmers’ knowledge and approval. …

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Abuja community hospital patients are dying over health workers negligence

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Residents of Dukpa, a community of over 2000 inhabitants in Gwagwalada Area Council Abuja the Nigerian capital city have continued to recount how the negligence of health workers in Primary Healthcare in their area is leading to the death of patients. A community champion in Dukpa who spoke to MAWA FOUNDATION and does not want …

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Community in Abuja inhabitants drink from a dirty pond

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Residents of Dota -Kaida Tsoho community in Dobi ward at Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja the Nigerian capital city rely solely on the dirty ponds as their only source of drinking water. This is even as the residents are recounting how they have written several letters to the government (Area Council Authority) begging that they …

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Substandard construction: Rainstorm destroys bridges in Bauchi

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MAWA FOUNDATION has learned how rainstorms destroyed two bridges in Bauchi State as a result of substandard construction. Local sources told MAWA via telephone conversations that the bridge connecting roads leading to Jos and Kano was destroyed on Thursday night after heavy rainfall. Mr. Ibrahim Isa, one of the locals, told MAWA that the bridge …

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Only four percent of northern girls completed secondary school: Report

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Only four percent of northern girls complete secondary school, says a survey by the Centre for Girl Child Education (CGE). The centre’s board member Binta Muhammad disclosed this on Thursday in Sokoto. Ms. Muhammad stated that CGE was established in 2007 with 64 girls in rural communities in Kaduna after a baseline survey was conducted. …

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Katsina lawmaker gets N80 million, distributes less than 100 fertilizer bags

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Mr. Bello Mandiya, a lawmaker from Katsina State has distributed less than 100 bags of fertilizers as a constituency project after getting N80 million allocation from the Federal Government. The lawmaker, who is representing the people of Katsina South at the Senate, told party loyalist in his constituent that got the fertilizer that he will …

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Special Report: IPPIS worse scam ever, Nigeria Workers recount

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Nigerian workers continue to recount how Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPISP) created by the Nigerian Government to address fraud in the country’s civil service management, has since turned out to be the worse form of scam in the country’s history. MAWA FOUNDATION in this Special Report spoke to civil servants, who described the …

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Abuja residents groan as price of cooking gas soars

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Abuja residents are now cut in the crossfire of battling the soaring price of food items and cooking gas as inflation in the country continues to go higher. MAWA FOUNDATION visited five cities in Abuja, Kubwa, Bwari, Dutse Alhaji, Karu, and Lugbe to find out the price of cooking gas and interview its users. At …

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Special Report How Farmers Lost Farmlands to Herders Crisis

Special Report : How Farmers Lost Farmlands to Herders Crisis

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As the crisis among Herders and Farmers increasingly becomes unabated, farmers are losing lives, which has forced many of them to abandon their farmlands, losing crops and revenues. MAWA FOUNDATION in this Special Report examined the impact of Herder’s crisis on the farmers and its implication on food security. In this Special Report, MAWA interviewed …

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Bauchi children learn sitting on wooden planks despite N10 million FG allocation

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Children in the Gizaki community at Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Northeast Nigeria have continued to learn sitting on the wooden planks as the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) is yet to supply desks to the primary school despite N10 million that has been allocated to school furniture. This is even as the …

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