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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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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The poor farmers that spoke to MAWA-Foundation at the FO1 area of Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of FCT, in different narratives, gave accounts of how their lands located around the Military Pension Board along Daughters of Charity Hospital were taking over without any form of compensation. They gave accounts of how they lost ownership …
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Parents in the Paikon Kore community at Gwagwalada Area Council of Federal Capital Territory Abuja, the Nigerian capital city, are groaning over the dilapidated condition of a school in their area, pointing out it can longer deliver quality education to their children. The dilapidated Junior Secondary School Paikon Kore that has since become this dilapidated …
Gwarangah community residents in Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State lack access to healthcare delivery as the government could not deploy health workers in the community health centre 11 years after its completion. In a visit to the community, residents in different accounts narrated how the hospital that was constructed and equipped has been …
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A huge number of FCT residents now live in the suburbs and commute to the city centre, a situation many of them say they are forced into because they cannot afford land in the city centre because of its expensive nature. The Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) has since hiked the price charged on land …
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Abuja residents are now calling on the government and other development partners to roll out interventions that will have to address poverty and inequality at their centre of implementation while pointing out that the poverty and inequity they’re facing are becoming unbearable. Some the of residents who spoke to MAWA-Foundation at Mbumoko, an informal settlement …
Residents of Obeleagu Umanna in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State lack access to health care delivery as a government hospital in their area has since become deplorable. The Obeleagu Umanna community hospital has continued to be this deplorable even as the Enugu State government approved N22.39 billion for direct healthcare intervention in three …
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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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Mechanics and electricians in the Masaka area of Nasarawa state have disclosed that the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed businesses belonging to over 83 of its members and forced them to their villages. Mr. Clement Izah, the vice-chairman Motor Mechanics Association, while speaking to the MAWA Foundation team who visited Masaka to gauge the impact of COVID-19 …
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