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Food processing empowers Nigeria’s rural woman

Food processing empowers Nigeria’s rural women

Rural women in Nigeria are tackling poverty through the processing of Garri, a creamy-white or yellow granular flour made from fermented, gelatinized fresh cassava tubers. A popular staple food that is eaten in many homes in Nigerian and West Africa. The rural women are making money through the processing of Garir, with some of them …

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Enugu community children learn under miserable pitiable condition

Enugu community children learn under miserable pitiable condition

Children of the Isigwe Ugbawka, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, are learning under pitiable miserable conditions. In pictures shared by Tracka, a public accountability organization, the children were seen with their teacher receiving lessons while sitting on the floor in a classroom that was nearly collapsing on their heads. From Tracka’s …

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Dutse Alhaji's first gate becomes terribly deplorable

Dutse Alhaji’s first gate becomes terribly deplorable

Dutse Alhaji’s first gate located directly opposite Zenith Bank on the right-hand side when driving from Abuja – city centre to Bwari Area Council of FCT has become terribly deplorable. The terrible portion of the road that is less than two kilometres from First Gate to the popular Koro Mosque has become a predicament for …

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Nigeria public healthcare crisis heightens: Only 5% PHC functional

Nigeria public healthcare crisis heightens: many PHCs not functional

The revelation by the Sun Media Development Foundation that Nigeria a country with over a population of 200 million people is facing a heightened public healthcare crisis, with many of its Primary Health Care (PHC) not functional should be a concern to every sane mind. Many would have thought that the outbreak of Covid-19 presented …

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Fuel Subsidy Energy Security Nigeria can’t do without

Fuel Subsidy: Energy Security Nigeria can’t do without

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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Tinubu, a Neo-liberalist can’t reduce poverty

Tinubu, a Neo-liberalist can’t reduce poverty

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 …

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Poor infrastructure in FCT worsen urban poor burden

Poor infrastructure in FCT worsens urban poor burden

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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Land Value Tax in FCT Community Viewpoint

Land Value Tax in FCT: Community Viewpoint

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 …

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Ogun indigenous people languish over electricity project

Ogun indigenous people languish over electricity project

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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