A girl is a blessing and a gift. Many of us grew up hearing some version of the saying credited to the Ghanaian educator Dr James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey: educate a man and you educate an individual; educate a woman and you educate a nation. Yet too many girls are still treated as anything but
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The phone was handed over in love. That’s what makes this story so hard to tell and so necessary. A Story Every Parent Needs to Hear A mother went to work each day and left her young son in the care of his uncle. Not a stranger. Not a hired hand. Her own brother. To
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By Latifah Ajetunmobi | Parent & Teen Coach, Nurse, and Author. I’ve been wanting to write about this for a while. Today, at last, I can. The children of Oriire are home. After 56 days in captivity, the schoolchildren and teachers abducted from three schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State have been
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Today, Nigeria marks Children’s Day. Across the country, schools that are still open will sing, children will be dressed in their finest, and speeches will be made about “the leaders of tomorrow. ” And somewhere — in Oriire, in Maga, in Papiri, in places we may never name — there are children who will not
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