I have for a while considered the ever increasing cost of education in Nigeria and its implication on poor people and this gets me worried. The high cost of education across the country today has...
Yesterday, there was a plane crash in Nigeria killing all passengers on board yet even our very active and forceful media, traditional and social, were quiet. I will spare no ink for our government:...
Nigeria my country has over 250 ethnic civilizations, two major religions that have more similarities than differences yet those who sow discord, kill and mien and don’t care about religion but power...
As worldwide events unfold simultaneously for the commemoration of 16 Days of Activism on Gender Based Violence (GBV), we in the Gambia were not left out. The 16 Days Campaign has been used as...
I am in Kibera with other activista volunteers and covering the good governance festival.I can still recall vividly the first time I heard of Kibera. All I could picture was this gigantic slum,...
While attending a press briefing organized by ActionAid International Kenya, I was very moved as I watched a Congolese woman, Jeanie Bandu break down in tears while sharing the experiences of women...
‘’For every two bags of fertilizer given to a man, a woman should be given four’’.This is how the leader of the FCT chapter of ActionAid Nigeria’s facilitated network of smallholder women farmer’s...
In Nigeria, at a time when youth identity has become synonymous with unemployment, poverty, marginalization and when the myriads of social, economical, cultural and political problems seem to be...
... purpose, which was only their personal gain and nothing further. Youth were intentionally overlooked for long and it became a practice to accept the societal structure as it was. But being in...
The theme of this year International youth Day is “Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth” and celebrating this in particular should definitely not leave Activista unnoticed. I think this is...
