Friday, March 21, 2008

Nigeria: Yobe's 'Conditional Cash' for the Vulnerable

Daily Trust (Abuja)
2 March 2008

Posted to the web 3 March 2008

Hamza Idris
Damaturu

Poverty, ignorance, diseases and merciless exploitation are common terrible attributes associated with women and children especially in developing societies.

Nigeria, despite its enormous oil wealth and natural resources is not an exception. Various studies show that its vast population who are mostly subsistence agrarians are plagued by lack of basic privileges of existence. While thousands of women have been widowed following the demise of their husbands in several controversial circumstances including HIV and AIDS diseases, millions of children are out of schools because they have no one to settle their fees.

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