Over two million Nigerians are displaced by Boko Haram militants, with over 800,000 living in overcrowded camps with poor sanitation
More than a decade of Boko Haram militant attacks have displaced over two million Nigerians in the north, with hundreds of thousands living in internally displaced people’s camps. Medical experts worry the camps lack the spacing and sanitary conditions to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus, which has so far infected more than 370 people in Nigeria and killed 10. Ifiok Ettang reports from Jos, Nigeria.
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control says that in the first 12 weeks of 2020, it recorded more than 900 confirmed cases and 176 deaths
Digital innovators are looking at ways to teach Nigerian children with mobile learning applications
Militants releases video showing gruesome execution of 22-year-old Ropvil Daciya, who group abducted on January 9 on his way from his hometown of Jos to Maiduguri
Nigerian youth have held a vigil for a student killed last month by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province, a breakaway Boko Haram group. The militants released a video showing the gruesome execution of 22-year-old Ropvil Daciya, who the group kidnapped on January 9 while he was travelling from his hometown of Jos to Maiduguri. Ifiok Ettang reports for VOA from Jos, Nigeria.
Nigerian youth have held a vigil for a student killed last month by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province, a breakaway Boko Haram group. The militants released a video showing the gruesome execution of 22-year-old Ropvil Daciya, who the group kidnapped on January 9 while he was travell=ing from his hometown of Jos to Maiduguri.
Law banning labor for kids under 17 not widely enforced due cultural beliefs, economic needs
In 2003, then-Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Child Right Act into law in 2003, to preserve the rights of children and protect them from exploitative labor. But 17 years later, millions of Nigerian children still take on physically challenging work to earn money to survive or to support their families. Ifiok Ettang reports from Jos, Nigeria.
A year ago, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities Act to help the country's disabled. However, Nigeria's blind and visually impaired say they are still struggling against poverty and bias, with many forced to beg for a living. Ifiok Ettang reports from Jos, Nigeria
