Stories

By Abujah Racheal “My husband said family planning would make me barren,” recalled Mrs. Mariamu Isa, a 29-year-old mother of...

By Sakina Ahmed When Zainab Mohammed from Gombi, a town in Adamawa State, northeastern Nigeria, decided to get a contraceptive...

By Ayọ̀mídé Ládípọ̀ The World Health Organisation recognises abortion as an essential health service to meet the global Sustainable Development...

By Timkat Nanbol Victor For many women farmers in Otuabagi, a community in Bayelsa’s Ogbia Local Government Area, childhood meant...

By Audrey Galawu When 28-year-old Lynet Chitemere had her first child, she knew little about family planning. “I wasn’t aware...

One Sunday afternoon, across the fields of Anguwan Mission in Zonkwa area of Kaduna State, northwestern Nigeria, Martha Saleh bent...

By Sola Abe It was five minutes to midnight on Monday, August 1, when a budding actress, Omosalewa Fafowora, took...

By Oge Udegbunam On a regular afternoon in 2003, Blessing Emmanuel, a young widow, was at her shop on the...

By Olayide Soaga Around the middle of last year, a group of women, numbering over ten, marched to the Alimosho...

By Lucrece Armande Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) is slowly rolling back decades of gender inequality in Cameroon. In a country where...