"Smallholder Women Farmers must have access, control and ownership of Land" - @azubike @ActionAidNG @swofon… https://t.co/xK8Z6eJH6k12 hours ago- "When you are burning your farms, you are killing the nutritive value of the soil". Hajia Zainab Isah Arah, Nationa… https://t.co/HX7MwhuHhh14 hours ago
- Meet Mary Afan, the National President of the Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria(SWOFON) re-emphasis… https://t.co/osWcY5Eu2X15 hours ago
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Human Security in Conflicts and Emergency
14-Feb-2018
The herdsmen farmers clash in Udei Community, Benue State has made Shator and his family homeless. He is ill yet must fend for thirteen children.
“We were hearing gun shots so we ran. We all initially went to Daudu camp, but because the spac...
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Human Security in Conflicts and Emergency
14-Feb-2018
The farmers herdsmen clash in Benue has left me displaced. Sarah (left) has never had children. She enjoyed her routine life as an aged widow.“My name is Sarah Ikyaa and I am 75 years old from Kaseyo community in Guma LGA. I...
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Human Security in Conflicts and Emergency
13-Feb-2018
[caption id="attachment_2392" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tersoo, crippled from birth is eager to learn a skill[/caption]
Crippled from birth, Tersoo originally from Tse-Dambwe, Goma LGA, Benue State and the fourth out of six ch...
08-Dec-2017
ActionAid Nigeria is excited to share its tri-annual newsletter!
In the period under review, ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) continued to promote accountability in governance through mobilisation and empowerment of citizens to make demands o...
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Women's Rights
31-Aug-2017
In 2015, women from communities across Nigeria gathered in Lokoja, Kogi State, for ActionAid-supported paralegal training, equipping them to handle and refer cases of abuse against women in their communities. Here we see the change that...
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Food and Agriculture
20-Jul-2017
[caption id="attachment_2189" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A smallholder woman farmer in Kwagal[/caption]
"80 % of the food production from Agriculture, comes from smallholder farmers, who are mostly rural women but they do not have...
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Education
05-Jul-2017
For 13-year old Faith of Dakwa community, the highlight of 2016 is a playground in LEA primary school Tungan Dalatu in the FCT where she attends. The primary 5 pupil and member of the arts club believes the provision of the recreational equipment ...
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Women's Rights
02-Jun-2017
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...
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Education
31-Dec-2016
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 ...
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Health
31-Dec-2016
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...
