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  Girl Rising ENGAGE, a global campaign for girl-child education utilizing the power of storytelling to promote girl-child education, has trained community influencers including school teachers and university students in Kano, northwestern Nigeria, on how to mobilize and influence members of their communities to send their daughters to school. “We…

More than 5 million newborns in Nigeria are deprived of essential nutrients and antibodies that protect them from disease and death as they are not being exclusively breastfed said UNICEF today, as it marks World Breastfeeding Week.

New Faces New Voices, NFNV, is a pan-African NGO set up by Graca Machel, the widow of the late Nelson Mandela, to support women across the continent to be able to access finance as well as create enabling environment for them to do business. And the UN Women delegation, led…

UNICEF has said it will continue to provide assistance to millions of conflict-affected children in northeast Nigeria, despite yesterday’s attack on a humanitarian convoy.

Since its inception in 2014, the Samira Sanusi Sickle Cell Foundation, SSSCF, has helped hundreds of sufferers of SCD with access to information and basic medication as well as created awareness around the causes, symptoms, complications, and management of the scourge among the general public

 Until May 2015, courtesy of an artisanal mining disaster that claimed the lives of scores of children and badly affected the health of hundreds of others, very little if anything, was known about obscure Shikira, a highly remote and inaccessible rural mining community in Rafi local government area of Niger…

Frank Habineza is the president of African Greens Federation, the coalition of green parties and political movements across Africa ensuring green principles and values are respected on the continent. Habineza, who is also a member of the executive committee of the Global Greens Coordination, is the founding president of the…

Today, (July 24, 2016) Nigeria marks two years without a case of polio, an important milestone for the polio eradication initiative and a major step towards polio-free certification for the country come 2017.

In a bid to stimulate public discussion around the rational and principles of the Not Too Young To Run Bill, currently under review in Nigeria’s National Assembly, as well as popularize the bill and mobilise citizens support for it, the Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD, in collaboration with…

The Follow the Money Campaign Team has said it is “extremely excited” that the Nigerian government has “finally bowed to public pressure” and began the cleanup of Shikira, the small rural mining community affected by lead poisoning in Rafi local government area of Niger state, north central Nigeria.