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Minister of Women Affairs, Barrister Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye and the UN Women and ECOWAS Country Representative to Nigeria, Beatrice Eyong at the event.

FG, states move to reinvent grassroots poverty intervention

To ensure empowerment and poverty alleviation projects have direct impact on grassroots women, girls and children, federal and state governments have agreed to implement a bottom to top approach for all target
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Some of the 21 freed Chibok girls are received at the Nigerian Vice President office in Abuja on October 13, 2016. Jihadist group Boko Haram has freed 21 of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped more than two years ago, raising hopes for the release of the others, officials said Thursday. Local sources said their release was part of a prisoner swap with the Nigerian government, but the authorities denied doing a deal with Boko Haram. PHOTO: PHILIP OJISUA / AFP

ActionAid urges govts to prioritise safety of girls

With the abduction of more than 1,000 Nigerian girls in the last eight years, ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has called on all the country’s tiers of government to prioritise the security of the
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