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The 3-day training for the youth activists from across northern Nigeria on democracy and civic engagement succeeded in empowering the young minds with the necessary skills for effective engagement with their elected representatives

Samira Haruna Sanusi, founder of Samira Sanusi Sickle Cell Foundation, nearly lost her life to sickle cell anemia and having narrowly survived it, she has set up a nonprofit creating awareness on the disease across Nigeria as well as helping less fortunate patients get medical aid. She tells African Newspage…

Tony Ssembatya  Makayu is a girls’ education and women activist currently working for the Access to Justice department at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Makayu, who sits on the board of the International Association of Community Development, IACD, is the founder of Kirabo…

Mustafa Shehu, President of the Federation of African Engineering Organisations, FAEO, the umbrella body of professional engineers in Africa speaks  about his efforts to strengthen the organization including partnering with the African Union 

Fatima Askira is the executive director of Borno Women Development Initiative (BOWDI), a Maiduguri, Nigeria-based NGO working with women victims of the Boko Haram insurgency in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps and host communities in Borno state. In a chat with African Newspage, she speaks about their efforts of alleviating…

The UK Department for International Development’s Mobilising for Development project is mobilising policymakers and citizens of communities in northern Nigeria, including girls and People With Disabilities, to acquire the necessary skills to be able to work with one another towards bettering their communities

The Voices for Change, V4C, held a state-level post-launch discussion roundtable for their widely read Landmark Research Report: “How to be a Man in Nigeria: Perceptions and Realities” last Thursday in Kano. The idea for the discussion roundtable was to find out how much the report has influenced the way…

  Ten Nigerians will participate in the 2016 Sustainaware, the African regional partnership conference taking place between 30th and 31st May, 2016 in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, courtesy of Connected Development, CODE, a youth-based non-governmental organization working to improve access to information and empower local communities in Africa. CODE‘s…

They were religious extremists, who have fought each other trying to protect their co-religionists. One, Imam Muhammad Ashafa, had lost his spiritual mentor and two cousins courtesy of his worst enemy-turned-best friend, Wuye’s group. The other, Pastor James Wuye, had lost his right arm in the hands of his now…

There are over 30 million out-of-school children, OOSC, across Sub Saharan Africa and one-third of that figure, over 10 million, is in Nigeria, according to UNESCO