Eradicating Polio in Nigeria

A new film about the fight to eradicate polio in Nigeria made with UNICEF, WHO and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Nigeria is one of just four countries in the world where polio is endemic.

Class of 2015 – one year on

A film for the “Send my Friend to School” initiative. This is part two of a series that will track a single class of pupils over 5 years.

Kaltume, Hadiza and Rukaya live in central Nigeria. Follow their experiences and the progress of class two of Kabiji Primary School, who are due to finish their primary education in 2015.

Class of 2015

Kaltume, Hadiza and Rukaya live in central Nigeria. Follow their experiences and the progress of class two of Kabiji Primary School, who are due to finish their primary education in 2015.

A Mother’s Story

In Northern Nigeria, rates of maternal, newborn and child mortality are amongst the highest in the world.
This film looks at an innovative new programme that is helping local communities to improve the health services including antenatal and postnatal care, safer deliveries, care for newborns and infants, better nutrition, and routine immunization against preventable diseases.

The programme is funded and supported by UKaid from the Department for International Development and the State Department of the Norwegian Government.

Girls’ in the Class – A story of women teachers in Nigeria

In Nigeria an estimated 7 million children of primary school age are out school and the majority of these children are girls.

This film is the story of Grace Bumba who is the first women from her community to ever go to college.

The Girls’ Education Project is a joint initiative between the Federal Government of Nigeria, the UK’s Department for International Development and UNICEF which aims to get more girls into school and to improve their quality of life.

Increasing the number of female teachers in rural schools can lead to an increase the number of girls enrolled. So the Girls’ Education Project through a trainee teacher scholarship programme is encouraging more women into the classroom.

Police reform in Nigeria

Nigeria has a police force of over 370,000 officers, but public perception of the police is generally negative: corrupt, brutal, and unprofessional. People in poor communities tend to be more exposed to crime of opportunity and to suffer more from restrictions of movements due to the fear of crime. This film looks at some of the current reform efforts.

Security & justice in northern Nigeria

Up to 1 million people from across west Africa gather for the weekly market at Maigatari in northern Nigeria. This film looks the security challenges and how improvements in policing and justice are helping the market to develop.