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Report: Over 70% of girls feel unsafe while going to school in Jigawa

A report by the Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), a programme funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK, states that more than 70 percent

Child Rights Act now adopted in 34 states, says minister

Pauline Tallen, minister of women affairs, says the Child Rights Act has been adopted by 34 out of the 36 states in Nigeria. Tallen announced this on Thursday while addressing

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FRESH START: How women abandoned, divorced due to fistula are bouncing back

It was about 11am in Sokoto. It had just stopped raining and the skies were still somewhat cloudy. A middle-aged woman dressed in a white, long hijab, walked swiftly into

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How UNICEF ‘saved 13-year-old from early marriage’ in Niger

Basira Umaru, a 13-year-old girl, says the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) saved her from being married out in her early teens. The primary six pupil narrated her experience during

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