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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

Make no mistake, Tinubu neo-liberal agenda will destroy Nigeria’s economy

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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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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Ebonyi Indigenous people languish over Airport construction

Ebonyi Indigenous people languish over Airport construction

The indigenous people of Onuachi Umuezeoka community in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi state are still languishing over the forceful takeover of their lands and demolition of their homes by the state for the construction of an airport. About 25 indigenous people who spoke to MAWA-Foundation at Onuachi Umuezeoka community in different narratives, …

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Water Resource Ministry abandons N336 million dam project

Water Resource Ministry abandons N336 million dam project

Nigeria’s Ministry of Water Resources in what appears predominant practices that have helped undermine the country’s development has abandoned N336.6 million dam project in Katsina State. Under the deal, Water Resources Ministry in the 2022 budget, allocated the sum of N336.6 million for the construction of Jare Earth Dam in Bakori Local Government Area of …

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Business crumbles as subsidy removal hits harder on the poor

Business crumbles as subsidy removal hits harder on the poor

Politicians and the neo-liberal market fundamentalists engineered by the West have continued to celebrate and hail Mr. Bola Tinubu the Nigerian president for having the courage to remove fuel subsidy. They care less about how this policy is affecting the poor, destroying the economy, breeding poverty, and widening inequality. In this report, MAWA-Foundation visited markets, …

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Subsidy removal hits women farmers, threatens food security

Subsidy removal hits women farmers, threatens food security

Women farmers are worst hit as a result of fuel subsidy removal by the Nigerian government under the supervision of Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian president. According to them, the action exposes women farmers to poverty and threatens food security. An official of the Small-scale Women Farmers Organization in Nigeria (SWOFON), who spoke to the …

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Fuel Subsidy energy security we can’t do without

Fuel Subsidy: energy security we can’t do without

The Media Advocacy West Africa – MAWA Foundation rejects fuel subsidy removal because fuel subsidy is energy security that we cannot do without. Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian president on assumption of office on the 29th day of May 2023, announced a total removal of fuel subsidy; an action that has led to fuel selling …

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