This report, Matan Quarai, is about the inspirational life stories of a group of women hailing from Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno and Yobe states in Northern Nigeria. These women are called “innovators” because of their novel ‘winwin’ methods of achieving major life goals – motherhood, higher education, career and leadership. (click on the image to read …
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Girls and women in Nigeria are getting a boost from a programme designed to help close the gender gap in school success rates, writes Timi Olagunju, 29, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lagos in Nigeria, who spoke to a trainer with the organisation. According to a 2014 UNESCO report, Nigeria has one of the largest number of …
Young women face an extra barrier to accessing education, writes Badru Walusansa, 25, a Correspondent from Kampala in Uganda, who argues the need to provide knowledge and supplies that will help girls attend school regularly. Girl child education in Uganda has suffered severe conspicuous challenges in the last two decades, including among others early child marriages and …
Nigeria now has the highest number of people living in extreme poverty, according to a new report from the Poverty Clock. Laila Johnson-Salami, 21, a Correspondent from Ibadan in Nigeria, argues that a lack of funding for social welfare and education has contributed to the situation. When Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin came on my show and …
YOUTH WORK WEEK SPECIAL: A sanitary pad distribution initiative to keep girls in school, and a project to groom school prefects into future leaders are some of the examples of the work young people in Nigeria are doing to create a better future for others. Nnabugwu Chukwuebuka, 26, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Uzii in Nigeria, …
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