This article presents the achievements of a care and support programme among orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Bayelsa State, Nigeria as well as the implications for future programming. 

This paper presents achievements and implications of care and support programmes among OVC in Kogi State, Nigeria

The general objective of this study was to conduct a research on the possible issue of institutionalisation in six South and Central American, Asian and African countries in order to strengthen the knowledge of the European Commission on the nature, the extent and scope of institutionalisation and feasibility of de-institutionalisation (alternative care for children).

At a small primary school in north-east Nigeria, a group of uniformed orphans are greeting a visitor to their art class. Some are the children of Boko Haram fighters. Others are the offspring of their victims. This school is different.

Thomson Reuters reports that an increasing number of women in Nigeria are fooled into giving up their children.  

In this article, William W. Hansen argues that the street children who populate the cities of Northern Nigeria have no means of support other than begging for their daily food, petty crime or providing casual labor. 

The Bold Heart Campaign project of Weinspires Global Foundation held an awareness campaign at the Bwari central market in Nigeria.

Experts warn of a growing divide between women who were captured and children born to Boko Haram militants and the rest of the population.

Maria David Zaya discusses the search to find her daughter who was kidnapped by Boko Haram close to two years ago.

This article discusses the major population displacement that unfolded in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin.