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Immunization is one of the most successful and cost-effective global health policies. It averts 2 million to 3 million deaths annually. An additional 1.5 million deaths could be avoided if global use of current vaccines expanded. But this potential impact only accounts for the diseases that have accessible and effective…

The year 2015 appears to have been a particularly bad year for female undergraduates in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The mass media, traditional, new and social, have been replete with sad tales of sexual harassment in many schools. By Adam Alqali

Twelve-year-old worker Titi has not heard from her mother and has no way of knowing if her salary reaches home.

Ebola survivors enduring social stigma and painful side-effects say Sierra Leone’s government has failed to deliver on promises of free healthcare and support

Dar es Salaam, April 28, 2016 (Xinhua/NAN) Tanzania authorities on Thursday said ongoing heavy rains and floods have killed five people and left over 13,000 others homeless in Tanzania’s eastern region of Morogoro.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) says it is spending 100 million dollars (about 20 billion naira) on the prevention of corruption, drugs and terrorism in Nigeria.

Discussions at the conversation café hosted by the Community-Based Organization, Inclusive Community Education and Development Association, ICEADA, re-echoed the feeling of marginalization by women in northern Nigeria, when it comes to decision making

Abiodun Baiyewu-Teru, Nigeria country director of Global Rights, the international human rights NGO speaks on its activities in Nigeria across the thematic areas of access to justice, natural resource governance; security as well as women’s rights

Aishatu Debola Aminu is the Country Director of New Faces, New Voices-Nigeria, a Pan-African organisation of professional women in business and finance, founded by Mrs Graca Machel, widow of the late South African anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela

As much as it is believed that education is the remedy to poverty among girls, empowerment education and skills are equally believed to be critical in helping girls break the cycle of poverty and deprivation as well as have access to resources and opportunities