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Gifted Hands – Meet Toma Who Paints With Her Feet
Cerebral Palsy is a group of permanent movement disorder that appears in early childhood. The effects include stiff muscles, weak muscles, and poor coordination.
The fine touches of paintings they say are more beautiful when the…
Constantly on the move: A peep into the lives of Jos women yam hawkers
Carrying 10 to 20 tubers of yam on their heads, Jos women yam hawkers walk as far as 10 kilometres, mostly under the intense scorching sun and sometimes drenched in the rain with a baby strapped to their backs. It is the life they’ve always…
More rapes, few convictions
Rape perpetrators are seldom convicted. MICHELLE AGOH finds that behind this are the fact that the prosecutorial arm of the police is poorly funded and rape victims are ‘reluctant’ to volunteer information
The odds seem stacked against…
Trokosi: Young girls and women still in captivity years after law abolishing practice
Little Nene, “not her real name” was too young to remember the exact age when she was sadly taken away from the care of her beloved family to a strange compound to be in servitude as trokosi, and to serve the whims and interest of the…
Despite health risks, firewood use still thrives in Nigerian communities
Though Nigeria ratified the Paris agreement on climate change in 2017, the country still grapples with the challenge of women and children suffering from the effect of constant use of firewood and charcoal.
The International Centre for…
We are much more than milk-maids
-Story of nomadic girls who broke boundaries