Who is the Community Service Award for?
It’s for that one individual who keeps showing up, who refuses to look away until life within communities gets better. People like this deserve better than a “well done”.
Know someone doing amazing work in your community?
Nominate them today at https://t.co/F81AQhCyQF
Nominations close June 14 so don’t wait till the last minute.
Let’s give them the recognition they deserve.
#ACA2026 #ActiveCitizensAwards
🗣️“When we say check your state budget, this is exactly what we are talking about.”
In 2020, we visited Government Day Secondary School, Diko, Gurara LGA, Niger State, and found the school in a completely dysfunctional and dilapidated state. Meanwhile, this is the only government secondary school serving about 14 different communities, yet students are forced to learn in terrible conditions.
Classrooms have no doors or windows, roofs are collapsing, ceilings ripped off, and many students sit on bare floors during lessons. Even more concerning, the schools lack perimeter fencing, exposing students and staff to serious security threats at a time insecurity remains a major national concern.
In 2025, the school appeared in the Niger State Budget with N457.6m allocated for renovation. According to her 2025 fourth quarter Budget Implementation Report, N400m i.e. 87.4% of the funds has already been disbursed.
But the shocking reality is that there is absolutely no evidence of project execution on ground. No contractor. No ongoing work. No rehabilitation. Nothing.
We visited both the senior secondary school and the relocated junior secondary section over 3km away, and the conditions remain the same, abandoned, unsafe, and neglected.
🧐 How can N400m be reportedly spent while children continue learning in collapsing classrooms without furniture or security?
🧐 Who received the funds?
🧐 Who certified the project performance?
🧐 Where exactly was the money spent?
Sadly, this is gradually becoming a disturbing trend across several states. Despite increasing allocations and rising public revenues, citizens continue to see little or no corresponding development in critical sectors like education, healthcare, and infrastructure.
We call on the @officialEFCC and @icpcnigeria to urgently investigate this matter and ensure accountability for public funds meant for education development.
Nigeria should not continue budgeting for progress while communities remain trapped in neglect. We must do better.
Cc: @HonBago@GovNigerNG@NigerStateNG
#publicfundsmustworkforthegoodofthepeople
Today, we officially launch the new Nigeria Health Watch website.💃🏽🕺🏽
With a cleaner look, smoother navigation, and easier access to stories, data, and advocacy content, the new platform is designed to make exploring health conversations in Nigeria easier and more engaging.
We can’t wait for you to explore it. 🚀
SAD!!!
Attn, Gov @m_akpakomiza
This is Okpokhumi Grammar School,Okpokhumi Emai, Owan East LGA, Edo State, the ONLY government secondary school serving three communities in Owan East LGA, Edo State. What you're seeing in these photos is not an abandoned building. Children are actively trying to learn inside it.
Every single day. This is the painful reality that 1,768 students wake up to every morning while you sit comfortably in Government House Benin City.
Roofs blown off. Walls crumbling and broken. No ceiling whatsoever. Floors cracked, dirty and completely destroyed. And when the rains come pouring down?
These classrooms flood completely, sending children home with wet books and broken spirits. Students from Okpokhumi Emai, Ojavun New, and Ojavun Old are sitting inside what can only be described as a glorified ruin desperately trying to build their futures in a place that successive governments have deliberately allowed to collapse around them for decades.
Your government has budgeted BILLIONS of naira for education in Edo State. Billions. Yet somehow, this school, the only one these three communities have ever had,has been criminally abandoned and left to rot. And what is your administration busy doing instead? Channeling enormous government energy, time, and resources into the 2027 Tinubu presidential reelection campaign.
Governor Okpekholo, the innocent children of Okpokhumi cannot eat political loyalty. They cannot read textbooks under a campaign banner. They cannot pass their WAEC examinations sitting on broken benches under a roof that the next rainfall will destroy completely. These families are not asking for a world-class facility. They are simply asking for walls that stand firm.
A roof that holds when it rains. A floor that doesn't turn into a river during the rainy season. The absolute bare minimum that every Nigerian child constitutionally deserves and that your government continues to deny them.
And the elected representatives who should be screaming on their behalf? Sen. Adams Aliu Oshiomhole. Hon. Julius Ihonvbere at the National Assembly. Hon. Timothy Okaka at the Edo State House of Assembly all elected by these same communities, all collecting their jumbo salaries and allowances have completely looked away as if these children simply do not exist. The silence and gross negligence from every single one of them is not just disappointing, it is a profound betrayal of the people who trusted them with their votes.
When a government funds political rallies, sponsors 2027 reelection campaigns, renovates government houses, and bankrolls endless Abuja trips while 1,768 children study daily under a collapsing, leaking roof that is not an administrative oversight. That is a deliberate, calculated, and deeply callous political choice that history will never forgive.
These children have names. They have dreams. They have futures worth fighting for. Fix Okpokhumi Grammar School immediately. No more excuses. No more silence.
Share this everywhere. Let all of Nigeria see exactly what happens when votes are harvested and communities are ruthlessly abandoned.
#FixOkpokhumiSchool @NigEducation@JackObinyan
In April, our Kwara state officer, Yemisi Fagboro was at the stakeholder review meeting on Kwara state Teachers' Skills Gap by Eido Foundation.
We discussed how to strengthen accountability in the education sector.
THESE IMAGES ARE NOT AI GENERATED! THESE IMAGES ARE NOT THROWBACKS. They are the current living realities of Ruwaza community, Kwali Area council, Abuja.
Ruwaza community, a rural settlement with about 4,500 residents, is currently facing a severe lack of access to clean water.
Women and children have to trek long distances to the only available source of water which is an almost dried up hole.
The community’s woman leader, Mrs. Anatu, expressed deep concern over the situation; “Our children have suffered from the lack of water. Even the ground does not bring water well. We have to line up and queue for a long time before we can get water for use at home.”
Another woman in the community shared how her child fell ill because of how unsafe the water is.
This is not an uncommon experience for most residents. They are at risk every time they use this water.
Beyond water challenges, Ruwaza community is also lacking in critical infrastructure. The community has no healthcare facility, no electricity supply, and while the community has a primary school, children who wish to continue to junior or senior secondary education must travel at least 17 km to neighboring communities.
This long distance discourages many families from sending their children, particularly girls, to school.
We implore the offices of @GovWike, Hon. Danladi chiya, Hon. Abdulrahman Ajiya to address the needs of this community.
We engaged residents and representatives of Boyi Sarki community, Dikko district and Chauma Ward, Tafa LGA, Niger state in a townhall meeting where we raised awareness on projects allocated to their community and how they can ensure implementation.
They were also taught on how to engage their representatives and submit community needs.
We stay committed to equipping every citizen with tools and information to demand good governance.
Under the Governance For Women By Women project by Tracka, we engaged the women of Gawu Babagida community to raise awareness about the projects allocated to their commmunity, and ways to hold leaders accountable at the national, state, and local government levels.
We stay committed to equipping every citizen with tools and information to demand good governance.
In Dec 2025, N50.7m was paid to ELED-ILANN TIZIMO LTD for the Construction of Gym Hall and Supply of Gym Equipment at Bida Club in Bida LGA, Niger state.
We tracked and report that this project is ongoing. The gym hall has been constructed, roofed and plastered.
We will keep tracking to ensure quality work is done.
At Tracka, recognizing outstanding commitment is non-negotiable ⭐️
In Q1, our state officers went above and beyond to ensure we have the results we recorded and most especially, our Regional coordinator for North Central, Motoni Moses.
Thank you Motoni @mozystick for your relentless effort and commitment 💙✨
In Oct 2024, N67.1m was paid to RAIS INVESTMENT LTD for the Provision of Solar Streetlight to 4 Location of Umaru Sht Model School, Bida and 4 Usra International School, Bida LGA, Niger state.
We tracked and report that a minimum of 10 solar streetlights have been installed per school, totaling 30 solar street lights across the three locations.
“Is political entry in Nigeria truly open, or does money still quietly decide who gets in?”
That was the question that shaped the room last Thursday as young Nigerians gathered to unpack the real cost of political participation under the Electoral Act 2026.
Last Thursday, EiE Nigeria in partnership with @BudgITng and @thecableng convened the first physical Thursday Talks for the year at Civic Hive, Yaba, bringing together young people across diverse sectors to reflect on what the new electoral framework means in practice. The conversation moved through structure as the new currency, gaps in civic knowledge, and the realities of participation and engagement, returning again and again to one truth that changing the rules does not automatically change access.
What followed was an honest exchange that went beyond theory into the lived realities of political participation. By the end, one message lingered in the room: if young Nigerians are to shape the system, they cannot afford to only observe it.
#ThursdayTalks #YouthInPolitics #GetInvolved
You’ve probably seen some of these headlines before.
We present to you…the second edition of GovSpend Times, bringing together real stories drawn from public spending data. These headlines come from GovSpend analysis that news platforms have used to question, challenge, and demand accountability.
From millions spent on items that raise eyebrows, to billions tied to projects that never quite reach completion, these are the kinds of stories that keep showing up.
This is what the data looks like when it leaves spreadsheets and enters real life. As you go through this, pause, read and connect the dots. Explore the data yourself on https://t.co/51yTmXnCA3.
📚 “We need teachers, we need hope.”
That was the song chanted by pupils of Model Nursery and Primary School, Renewed Hope Resettlement City IDP Camp, Yarkade Keffi, Nasarawa State, when we visited them this week.
These children, displaced from different communities across Nasarawa State, have been learning without a single government-deployed teacher for over a year.
Classrooms were built, yet education is hanging by a thread. The only learning support currently comes from a volunteer parent, Mallama Sadia, who teaches the children out of compassion and sacrifice.
The voices of these children should not be ignored. Their cry, “We need teachers, we need hope,” should move authorities to urgent action.
We call on Engr Abdullahi A. Sule @GovNasarawa, @NasarawaGovt, @nasarawaedu, and all relevant stakeholders to immediately deploy teachers and provide the support needed for these children to learn in dignity.
Displacement should not mean the end of education or hope.
Cc: @ahmedwadadaa, @FaridaAAsule
@darmyball@kenkenlewu https://t.co/ZJQCyk4GGW
₦1,365 is not empowerment, it’s optics.
Why do these gestures only show up near elections? Real empowerment is jobs, skills, and accountability, not handouts.
Are they giving this $1 out of love, or because of the upcoming election?
“Political Candidate Distributes One Dollar to Empower Youth in Mokwa, Niger State” 👀
Let’s call this what it is, not empowerment, but optics.
At roughly ₦1,365, handing out $1 to young people in today’s economy raises more questions than it answers.