Global News by Tag: Nigeria
LAGOS, NIGERIA – More than 200 people convened on International Women’s Day this month to promote entrepreneurship among women in Nigeria.
Entrepreneur Jibola Tobi Lawal, the chief organizer of the event, says she has never been in "paid employment" – a term she defines as working for someone else – aside from the compulsory one-year service to the nation that she fulfilled in 1988.
LAGOS, NIGERIA – Nigerians on Lagos Island in southwestern Nigeria celebrated the Eyo Festival at the end of November. Originally known as Adimu Orisha play, the festival is unique to the island and is a tradition of the Yoruba ethnic group. It can be organized to mark various occasions but was traditionally used as a final burial rite after the death of a chief.
ABUJA, NIGERIA – David Habba, 24, is a student at Benue State University, where he is currently studying sociology. Habba says his vision for his future is to practice what he is studying.
“I want to speak for others,” he says. “I see myself as a social engineer, proffering solutions to social issues.”
LAGOS, NIGERIA – Diana Asak, 32, a player-turned-coach, was 7 when she developed an interest in football, or soccer. She says she felt thrilled as she watched the players chase the football.
“I’d been seeing boys playing,” she says. “I thought, ‘This is something that I can do.’”
She started to play with them on the streets of Lagos, a port city in southwestern Nigeria.
“I was the only girl playing, yet I competed with them very well,” she says, tilting her head and resting her middle finger on it as she reminisces.
LAGOS, NIGERIA – The books she read growing up made Oreoluwa Somolu, executive director of the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre, W.TEC, a Nigerian nongovernmental organization, want to be a nurse because women were usually nurses and men were usually doctors in the literature of her childhood.
She says that stereotypes in media and pop culture are reinforced every day in Nigerian life, which influence women’s career paths.
ILE IFE, NIGERIA – Goodluck Jonathan, 64, won re-election this weekend with more than 60 percent of the national vote. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which was widely praised internationally, reported few irregularities as Nigerians collectively hoped the peaceful elections would be a sign of a more stable future.
