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Raising Children Against the Odds: Understanding and Supporting Single-Parent Families

Raising Children Against the Odds: Understanding and Supporting Single-Parent Families By  Adedayo Ige Single parenting is a reality that millions of families worldwide navigate every day. It describes situations where one parent, either mother or father, assumes full responsibility for raising a child in the absence of the other. As Ali and Soomar (2019) explain, […]

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CONDEMNATION OF INTIMIDATION AND UNION REPRESSION TARGETING WATER SECTOR WORKERS IN SENEGAL

The Africa Water Justice Network (AWJN) issues this statement to the national press in Senegal and to international media outlets to draw urgent attention to a situation of exceptional gravity within the country’s public water sector. We firmly condemn the ongoing intimidation, pressure, and threats of dismissal directed at workers, including trade union representatives who

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Nigeria’s Rising Wave of Abductions: A Call for Urgent National Action

Nigeria’s Rising Wave of Abductions: A Call for Urgent National Action Nigeria is witnessing an unprecedented surge in abductions, kidnappings, and violent attacks. This set of crises threatens not only the nation’s stability but also the lives and future of its most vulnerable citizens. Over the past weeks, the country has been shaken by a

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Invisible Scars: How Family Crises Shape Children’s Mental Health

The family, as the primary social unit for a child, plays an indispensable role in shaping a child’s physical, social, moral, and psychological development. For any community, country, or continent to maintain its identity and relevance, the family must be prioritized. Within this context, effective parenting is essential to achieving societal goals. Parenting, defined as

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Help Initiative Slams Aviation Double Standard – Demands Probe into Ibom Air’s Inhumane Treatment of Comfort Emmanson

PRESS RELEASE August 11, 2025 The Help Initiative for Social Justice and Humanitarian Development is alarmed and outraged by the apparent double standard in how Nigerian aviation authorities and operators have handled two high-profile recent incidents: the public, violent treatment of Ms. Comfort Emmanson on an Ibom Air flight and the ValueJet versus the King

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THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTS’ INVOLVEMENT ON CHILDREN’S EDUCATIONAL OUTCOME

Parents play a significant role in the life of a child, and that is why this topic is worth discussing. Parenting remains one of the many wonders of creation considering how it transcends beyond the human society to the world of animals. Juxtaposing the roles of a teacher with that of a parent could be

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Help Initiative Celebrates Women’s Day With “Ona-Ara” Women – Calls attention to Lack of Amenities

A group advocating for the rights to potable water and constant power supply, especially for vulnerable women and girls in low-income rural communities of Nigeria and Africa, has decried lack of access to clean and affordable water, as well as electricity in Badeku Community, Ona-Ara Council of Oyo State. The group, Help Initiative for Social

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Lack of Water in Communities – A Danger to Maternal Health, Social Reproduction

A group advocating for the rights to potable water and constant power supply, especially for vulnerable women and girls in low-income rural communities of Nigeria and Africa have decried lack of access to clean and affordable water, as well as electricity in Badeku Community, Ona-Ara Council of Oyo State. The group, Help Initiative for Social

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NGO decries 15 years of darkness, lack of water access in Badeku community

A non governmental organization, Help Initiative for Social Justice and Humanitarian Development, have called on the government and other relevant stakeholders to come to the aid of residents and people of Badeku community Ona-ara local government area and its environs in the areas of water and inadequate power supply. The NGO made the call shortly

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Help Initiative for Social Justice and Humanitarian Development condemns arrest, Detention of Nigerian Human Rights Activist, Dele Farotimi

The Help Initiative for Social Justice and Humanitarian Development condemns the arrest, detention, and illegalities arising during the arrest of Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist Mr. Dele Farotimi in Lagos, Nigeria. On Tuesday, 3rd December 2024, news broke that prominent Nigerian Lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi had been abducted from his Lekki

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