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The I-Care Women and Youth Initiative (ICWYI) came into being in 2007 as a pet project which has grown into a fully incorporated non-partisan and non-religious NGO with a Board of Trustees and a Management Team, supporting women, children as well as vulnerable groups in the areas of health, education,…

Ijeoma Obiajunwa-Ajiamah, a 2016 YALI fellow, is the CEO at Markengee Touchinglives International, a nonprofit working around awareness creation and advocacy for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria and across Africa

The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) Saturday hosted an experience sharing event for principals of secondary schools in Kano, Nigeria, in respect of how they were promoting entrepreneurship among girls in their schools   The event was part of dRPC’s Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education…

In his bid to ensure his subjects particularly women and girls have access to quality healthcare services, the Emir of Kano, HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II (in 2016) established the Kano Emirate Council Committee on Health (KECCoH).     The idea of KECCoH first came about in 2014, in the aftermath…

To mark the 2017 International Day of the Girl Child celebrated every year on October 11, a non-profit called Project Forward Everyone on Wednesday hosted a workshop on menstrual health hygiene and self-esteem for adolescent girls from public secondary schools in Ibadan, Nigeria. The International Day of the Girl Child…

“The success of the new policy [APP] will be driven by the levels of engagement of market place participants, farmers, states, investors, financial institutions, and communities. Other stakeholders from research laboratories to the Nigeria Customs Service to donors will also play vital roles.’’ – Chief Audu Ogbeh, Honourable Minister of…

African Newspage will Thursday host an awareness roundtable discussion for community youth activists and students from campuses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Kano, Nigeria     African Newspage, a digital newspaper focused on exclusively reporting sustainable development issues in Nigeria and across Africa, is organizing the one-day roundtable…

“Very soon, we are not going to give quota for fish importation. We want everybody to set up their fish farms, employ our people and create jobs for our people. When we came last two years, Nigeria was producing about 700,000 tonnes of fish but this has increased to about…

Olufunso Owasanoye is the executive director of Human Development Initiatives (HDI), a Lagos-based nonprofit working to enhance the effectiveness and accessibility of basic education at the grassroots in Nigeria   The Human Development Initiatives (HDI) is implementing a project aimed at enhancing effectiveness and accessibility of basic education at the…