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On daily basis, we continue to hear of Boko Haram, what easily come to our mind are bombings, deaths, and destruction.  Beyond that, the insurgency has brought with it Nigeria’s worst humanitarian disaster since the Biafran civil war of the 1960s – the displacement of over 2 million Nigerians, according…

Members of the Girls’ Platform in Sumaila local government area of Kano state have among others, demanded that their LGA chairman provides more girls secondary schools and female public toilets in their communities. The girls made the demands in Sumaila town Wednesday during a program organized by the DFID-funded Mobilising…

GEMS3’s Business Licencing Registration (BLR) intervention is supporting the advancement of Kaduna state’s business and investment environment by bringing about improvements to regulatory frameworks geared at reducing the cost and time for dealing with regulations by businesses The Growth and Employment in States (GEMS3) programme, which is supporting efforts for…

A Nigerian, Christina Ude, founder of Reading Hamlets and advocate for the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, will be conferred with the 2016 Global Inspirational Women Leadership Award and the United States Congressional Commendation Award. Reading Hamlets is a women-led non-profit organization dedicated to ending the cycle of poverty by providing books to children, supporting literacy campaigns and reading clubs, building libraries, as well as empowering…

A Nigerian, Dr Aminu Magashi Garba, has been elected as one of two next civil society representatives to the Global Financing Facility (GFF) Investors’ Group. The announcement came at end of the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health, PMNCH, NGO constituency’s board meeting held Thursday 27th October 2016 in…

Recently, the Nigeria chapter of the International Association for Community Development, IACD, the UN-accredited global network for professional community development practitioners, held its annual conference

By Adam Alqali In commemoration of the 2016 International Day of the Girl-child, Girl Rising Nigeria, in partnership with Intel,  Tuesday last week hosted a special program in the city of Kano to celebrate the power of girls’ thoughts and dreams in changing the world, through the Star Power Contest.…

 As a development journalist, I now don’t harbor the slightest of doubts as to the ability of science journalism to meaningfully contribute to the advancement of Africa’s Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) agenda, a crucial prerequisite for the continent’s sustainable development.   At 3:47 PM (Nigerian time) on Monday, September…

  The healthy wellbeing of a people is doubtlessly a basic human right, guaranteed by the constitutions of their countries, and the healthy wellbeing of a people is hinged on the amounts of funds committed to public health by their national governments through their annual budgets   The healthy wellbeing…

Muhammad Kabir The emotional reunification with their families on Sunday of 21 of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, highlights the need for intensive support for women and girls who have been held by the group. “The release is great news…