An educational programme for young girls in northern Nigeria that involved local religious leaders massively reduced the number of child marriages, a study reported in Nature today has found 1. Nearly ...

CNN — Lagos, Nigeria — In a plush living room of a home in a wealthy suburb of Lagos, three teenagers are huddled around a computer. Kudirat Abiola, 15, Temitayo Asuni, 15 and Susan Ubogu, 16, want to ...

Early marriage remains one of the major issues confronting girls in Northern Nigeria. Many of these girls are denied access to education because of a deeply conservative belief that a woman's worth ...

Ending harmful cultural practices against the girl child requires a multi-faceted approach. Gender and rights advocates say ...

A community-focused programme targeting out-of-school adolescent girls in northern Nigeria has reduced the likelihood of ...