Bridging gaps: Local government replicates best practices to improve quality of education in Agege
Ranked as one of the top ten most populous countries, Nigeria's over 140 million citizens compete for severely limited resources and services for health and education. Where they do exist, public infrastructure and services are of poor quality and are grossly inadequate.  More

Community Role Models Work Outside-the-Box to Make Life Better in Kurudu
Despite being just nine kilometers from Abuja, Nigeria's capital, the village of Kurudu lacked basic social services. Its only health facility was sorely dilapidated and lacked adequate personnel, drugs, windows and doors.  More

Communities Adopt Simple Solutions to Fight Childhood Illnesses in Lagos, Kano and Nasarawa States 
Residents of Majidun, a semi-rural community situated on the bank of a river in Ikorodu Local Government Area in Lagos State, are predominantly fish farmers and petty traders who subsist on meager incomes. Poverty is severe in Majidun, like in most of Nigeria's rural areas, with women in particular struggling to cope with the burden of work at home and in the fields. More

Audio Messages in Local Languages Boost Polio Vaccine Acceptance
Young Fulani girls wrapped in long colourful veils danced while their male counterparts watched and shared in conversation.  It was a wedding ceremony in a remote settlement in Dutse Local Government Area in Jigawa State.  The fifty young men that witnessed the ceremony were from neighboring communities.  As they continued feasting and celebrating, music in the native Fulfulde language started to play. Only this time, it was not the live voices and claps that produced the sound but a vehicle nearby. More

Multi-Stakeholder Involvement Improves Basic Education Use and Quality
As usual, Akarowese Esther struggled at school. Though most of her peers also struggled, hers was probably more justified.  Built in 1916, Akarowese’s school, African Bethel Primary School Ota-Ona in Ikorodu Local Government Area in Lagos State suffered from lack of upkeep and was in serious disrepair. More

Equipped and Saving Women’S Lives in Tashan Babiye
Dry, dusty air scattered the leaves and litter, as intense heat waves typical of this part of northern Nigeria baked the streets. Several weeks pregnant with her second child, 28-year-old Zainab Abubakar, performed rigorous errands in the small community of Gudum Community in Bauchi More

Rural Communities Incite Government To Improve Education
Curious children at Gaya Special Primary School itched at a turn on one of the new computers in the computer laboratory.  For most of them it was the first time ever seeing and touching the 'television-like' machine.  More

Rural Social Entrepreneurs Boost Immunization Coverage
Tucked securely in an old canoe, mothers and children chorused popular traditional songs as they traveled to the nearest routine immunization post some 8 kilometers away from Ajara, their remote rural community in Lagos State.  More

Unreceptive Muslim Religious Leaders Promote and Practice Family Planning in Nasarawa State
In Nigeria, several Muslim religious leaders are still less favorably disposed toward family planning and advise against contraception despite high-level campaigns promoting the benefits of family planning.  More

Data Provokes Traditional Ruler, Boosts Polio Immunizations Remarkably
The people of Birin-Magaji in northern Nigeria are required to interact and travel in order to meet the demands of daily living, but in the end they do more than exchange goods and services - they exchange transmissible diseases such as polio which leaves children vulnerable.  More