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Nigerian Farmers Win Right To Sue Shell Over Pollution. But Who’ll Clean Up The Mess?
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LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria is the largest exporter of oil in Africa, with these exports accounting for 90% of the country's foreign exchange and more than half of government revenue. But more than six d...
Practice Makes Perfect — Training The Next Generation Of Nigeria's Health Workers
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“Surgical training is like an apprenticeship,” says Dr. Adeola Adekunle, a 35-year-old trainee surgeon at Lagos University Teaching Hospital. “You have to learn by practice. You have to learn by watch...
Nigeria Struggles With Largest Recorded Lassa Fever Outbreak
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LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria is under pressure to declare a national health emergency as it struggles to contain its largest recorded outbreak of Lassa fever, which has killed 161 people since the start o...
Leprosy Lives On In Nigeria, 20 Years After Its 'elimination' As A Public Health Problem
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UZUAKOLI, Nigeria — When light spots slowly began to appear on his hands, Ifeanyi Agbai thought it was severe malaria and sought care at a pharmacy. But the skin lesions forming on his feet and hands,...
In Nigeria, A Push For Coding In Schools
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria — On a chilly Friday morning last November, Chinyere Anyaji stood behind a lectern in a dimly illuminated hall packed with hundreds of students of the Titare Star Academy in the...
Nonprofits Take On Nigeria’s Struggles With Mental Health
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LAGOS, Nigeria — When Victor Ugo was diagnosed with depression in his final year in medical school in 2014, he searched in vain for a community of young people going through the same thing. Frustrated...
Nigeria Tackles Cholera Outbreak Using Housecalls, Jingles, And Health Advisories
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MUBI, Nigeria — Ashek Mohammed was about to go to bed when his son, Ahmed, began experiencing severe diarrhea and vomiting. It was almost midnight on June 28, and Mubi, a town in the northeastern Nige...
Agritech Startups Aim To Lift Nigerian Smallholder Farmers Out Of Poverty
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KADUNA, Nigeria — As the sun appeared on the horizon in the village of Jere in northwestern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, Moses Magaji hunched over his hoe, weeding out grass from the rice plant.“I love far...
In Nigeria, A School Takes On The Fight Against Boko Haram
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Just a stone’s throw from the banks of River Gadabul — 4 kilometers from the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri — sits a cinder-block building housing three classrooms. Insid...