Tag: girls
NRHJN advocates safe school environment for girls
As the world commemorates the International Day of the Girl 2023, the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists of...
Because of tuition, school-aged girls lured into prostitution
A woman simply known as Madam Success has reportedly lured four girls said to be looking for money...
Nigerian govt to subsidise sanitary pads for schoolgirls
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it had embarked on a policy to subsidise the cost of sanitary pads and commence...
38% of out-of-school children in Nigeria are girls
38% of Nigeria's out of school children are girls. This represents 3.85 million of the 10.19 million children out-of-school in the country.
Nigerian schoolgirls develop app to help underprivileged children get education funding
A group of five Nigerian schoolgirls working as team ‘Brain Squad’ have developed an app that would help finance the education of poor children...
Pregnant girls shouldn’t be expelled from school anymore – Fayemi
Wife of Ekiti State governor, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, on Thursday, 11th July, 2019 decried the practice of expelling pregnant schoolgirls while allowing...
Boys can wear skirts, girls can wear trousers in Mexico...
Mexico City Mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that pupils attending state schools will no longer have to wear gender-specific uniforms.
"Boys can wear skirts if...
‘We are all captives as long as Chibok girls are in...
On 14th April, 2014, some 219 school girls were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. The Nigerian government was able to...
These school girls made Nigeria proud in global tech competition
Five Nigerian school girls have made Nigeria proud by winning the gold medal at the World Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley, San Francisco.
These girls...
Technovation Challenge 2018 for Girls Worldwide (Fully-funded)
Every year, Technovation invites teams of girls from all over the world to learn and apply the skills needed to solve real-world problems through...
