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 …
Abuja residents groan as price of cooking gas soars Read More »
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 …
Special Report : How Farmers Lost Farmlands to Herders Crisis Read More »
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 …
Bauchi children learn sitting on wooden planks despite N10 million FG allocation Read More »
Parents suffering the COVID-19 impact are finding it very difficult to cope with the economic challenges brought by the pandemic, hence pulled their children out of school. Sure Start school has said parents of their pupils who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have pulled out their kids from the school because they could not …
COVID – 19 impact: Parents Pull Kids Out of School Read More »
Residents of Mbiakong Uruan community in Uruan Local Government Area of Akwa-Ibom State risk their lives on a wooden bridge that is near collapse despite the sum of N863.7 billion spent by the state government in three years as capital expenditure. Akwa-Ibom Online that exposed the dilapidated nature of the bridge, says community residents who …
Despite N863.7 billion Akwa-Ibom community risks wooden bridge Read More »
Mr. Orji Uzo Kalu, the Abia State Senator and a former Governor, and, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) have renovated two primary school blocks for N20 million as a constituency project. Mr. Kanu last year, using the National Directorate of Employment, nominated the rehabilitation of two primary school blocks in Ohafia Local Government Area …
Abia Senator, NDE renovate two classroom blocks for N20 million Read More »
Residents of Kpoto community in Kuje Area Council of Abuja the Nigerian capital city continue to drink contaminated water from a dirty pond, despite the sum of N62.4 billion expended by the Abuja authority on capital projects in the year 2020. This is even as the community residents say many of them have developed various …
Abuja community drink from a dirty pond as only source of water Read More »
As we continue to recount the impact of COVID-19 on business and income, many do not pay attention to how the pandemic negatively impacted the wedding industry, with support from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) MAWA FOUNDATION examined the impact of COVID-19 on the wedding industry. The wedding industry is one area …
Special Report: Wedding Industry worse hit by COVID-19 Read More »
Oloke Ali community in the Ajebandele area of Ogun State has no government public school despite the sum of N238.346 billion the state government had expended on education in three years. Because there is no government school in the area, the community has only one terrible dilapidated private school that serves as the only source …
Despite N238.346 billion education expenditure, no school in Ogun community Read More »
The Otuocha-Ibaji-Idah Road in Kogi state has remained abandoned 12 years after it was awarded for the sum of N7.2 billion. The road that connects Ibaji and Idah Local Government Areas of Kogi state was awarded to Nigercat Nigeria Limited at the sum of N7.2 billion in 2009 with contract number C/6024. After the contract …
12 years after, N7.2 billion Otuocha-Ibaji-Idah Road remains abandoned Read More »