Introduction According to an agreement between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries, up to 200 students/scholars from all over the world will be spons...

  Women's Rights violations is usually a debate due to religious, ethnic and cultural reasons. Farida was pregnant and a mother of two living in Nyanya, a satellite town outside of the Nigerian capital Abuja. She commuted daily to Abuja f...

Thank you Action says Chika Faith, 14, from Ovuoba community in Ebonyi state.   I finished my primary education in 2013 but couldn’t proceed to secondary school because there is none in my community and my parents were not comfortable that I go ...

Ikota basic health centre serves about 1200 people of the community. However, during  the past 1 year, the provisions of medical supplies to the health centre have been quite slow from the ministry of health through the health unit of the local gove...

Rosaline Okemini, 35, is a widow and a mother of 8 children (5 boys and 3 girls).She is an indigene of Okpuitumo community in Ebonyi.   She explained “In 2008, ActionAid provided a milling machine for my community, Okpuitumo but for about 7 year...

Yusuf Muhammed, 57, a farmer and a native of Aboro community in Sanga LGA of Southern Kaduna narrated his ordeal before the intervention of Action Aid. “The death of my two children Gambo Yusuf (17years) andYahuza Yusuf (15 years) as a resul...

The apprehension of starting a new job got to me, like it would any other person, as I sat on the flight to Abuja. I was headed to the ActionAid’s head office for my induction, and had all the typical concerns: Would I fit in? What if I didn’t do...

Abdi is 12 years old and lives with his uncle in northern Nigeria. He has epilepsy and often has to miss school because he suffers from seizures. Abdi has difficulty talking but his uncle Abdullah understands him very well. Abdi’s uncle says ‘Ab...

12 year-old Rakiya Yusuf has a dream of becoming a nurse someday. She is very passionate about her dream and would stop at nothing to achieve it. She saw some nurses come into her community when she was a child. She admired them and said to herself "...