Menstrual Hygiene

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Female inmates in Nigeria struggle with menstrual hygiene amid neglect

AISHA* sat quietly in the crowded hall, her colourful hijab neatly around her face as a health expert spoke...

Nanji Nandang Venley - November 11, 2025

Health

‘If condoms, toilet paper are free, why not pads?’ Advocates ask, as period poverty hits Nigerian girls

IT was a chilly April morning in 2020 in Kerker, a village in Jos East Local Government Area of...

Nanji Nandang Venley - April 25, 2025

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Period poverty: Free sanitary pads, conditional cash transfer to rescue women, teenage girls

FOR 40-year-old Ajebe Gladys, coping with her monthly menstrual period since she lost one of her limbs about 17...

YEKEEN Akinwale - June 18, 2020

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FG launches distribution of one million sanitary pads in Abuja for women and teenage girls

THE Federal Government through the Ministry of Women Affairs has launched a project to distribute about one million sanitary...

Samad UTHMAN - June 3, 2020

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