The aim of this blog is to critically appraise Nigerian Social Institutions, whilst professing innovative and creative ways of improved service provision within available resources but most importantly within safe ethical guidelines of social work during intervention, counselling and rehabilitation. Constructive feedback is encouraged - Happy reading!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Every Girl is a Shero!
Ajegunle, one of the communities I work
with is a slum in rural Lagos and its home to about 300,000 illaje and yoruba speaking
people of Western Nigeria.
It has a primary health care centre that is
not functional, a primary school and a secondary school that was recently
closed down because of flooding. The students were then moved to another school
compound which is about 10 minutes bus ride from the community and about 30
minutes by foot.
World Pulse | Every Girl is a Shero
Speak; We Can Hear You
Growing up in the early 90's in southern
Nigeria was tough.
I grew up hearing the fear in the voice of
my parents and older siblings as they spoke about the then military dictator -
Gen Sanni Abacha and his acts of blatant human rights violation, extra judicial
killings, abduction and assassination of anyone who stood in his way; everyone
spoke - whispered terrible things of the military regime, but no one was really
heard. Why? There were only what I would call old media platforms; TV, Radio,
Newspaper and most of these outfits reported what they have been instructed to
report, the saying "he who pays the piper dictates the tune" was true
in their case. Nigeria maintained a 'good' image in the larger civil society
and the international community while
her citizens suffered on, uncertain about the very next minute.
World Pulse | Speak; We Can Hear You
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