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The Development Communications Network (DevComs) in collaboration with The Challenge Initiative (TCI), this week, hosted a group of media practitioners and journalists to a 3-day workshop on media advocacy for family planning in Kano state.     The workshop was aimed at highlighting the media’s role in enhancing advocacy for…

The Challenge Initiative (TCI), in collaboration with the Kano state government, over the weekend, held a workshop which reviewed the progress and challenges being faced by the Social and Behavioral Change Communication (SBCC) committee for Child Birth Spacing (CBS) in Kano state in the last three months, as well as…

The Resource Center for Human Rights & Civic Education (CHRICED)  Saturday held a public presentation of its baseline study on the efficiency and effectiveness of maternal health interventions in Kano state, titled: “Towering Hopes and Aborted Dreams: Assessing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Government Spending on Maternal, Newborn and Child…

For the first time, the Kano State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), conducted series of weeklong activities in commemoration of the 2020 International Day of Education     On Friday, January 24, 2020, the global community commemorated the 2020 International Day…

About one million people in six Local Government Areas (LGA) of Jigawa and Kano states will benefit from improved access to safe water and sanitation facilities following the completion of several water and sanitation facilities in the six LGAs, says United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).     Built with support…

As the world marks the 2020 International Day of Education on Friday, iChange Foundation, a nonprofit committed to social transformation in Africa by addressing core social deficiencies affecting children and adolescents, has said more commitment and not celebration is needed to tackle the ticking time-bomb that educationally deprived young people…

The Kano High-Level Women Advocates (HiLWA), in collaboration with the Kano State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), with support from Global Partnership for Education /Nigeria Partnership for Education Project (GPE/NIPEP) and Girls Education Project 3 (GEP3), this week conducted an advocacy and sensitization training for 1500 members of mothers associations…

The Executive Governor of Kano State His Excellency Abdulllahi Umar Ganduje has said the Kano state government now has zero tolerance for the phenomenon of out-of-school children, hence the introduction of the free and compulsory education policy, from primary to secondary level all over the state. “Education will continue to…

As the World Health Organisation (WHO) prepares to declare Nigeria a polio-free country, the Kano state government has stated its commitment towards sustaining the gains made by various polio and Routine Immunisation (RI) interventions currently being funded by donor partners across the state,  Dr Aminu Tsanyawa, the state commissioner of…

The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED), in partnership with Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), on Monday in Kano hosted a one-day stakeholders’ consultative forum on how social norms impact anti-corruption campaign in Nigeria. The event which drew stakeholders from across the northwest region…