Nigeria
We are working to improve health, disability inclusion, governance, and to engage and inspire youth about their country's future.
- Our office: Abuja
- Our areas of focus: Governance, health, inclusion, humanitarian response, climate and resilience
- Our partners:UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, US State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) department, Sightsavers, UNDP, US Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, Gates Foundation
- On social media: BBC Media Action Naija and BBC Media Action Arewa are on Facebook and Instagram.
About our work
We’ve worked in Nigeria for over 20 years and are currently delivering a number of vibrant projects addressing disability inclusion, climate change, humanitarian response, governance and health issues – with a particular focus on inclusion of marginalised groups, including women and girls, young people and people with disabilities.
We are currently running the Emergency to Reliance project, which encourages the creation of long-lasting, local media services that provide accurate and relevant information in crisis and in the long term.
We have also launched a project to work with local media to deliver explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) to their audiences. This project, building on our learning from work in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Ukraine, will ensure audiences get lifesaving information about the risks of unexploded ordnance, and know what to do to prevent injury.
In Northern Nigeria, funded by the Gates Foundation, we are working to address social and gender norms that inhibit digital access and use among adolescent girls and young women. In this region, we also run our “Changing the Script” project, which is a multi-media, multi-partner and multi-platform project in the Kano and Kaduna states to shift attitudes and social norms around family planning.
Our previous work in Nigeria includes a youth-focused multimedia project to empower young people with information to make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccination, HIV and HPV, through our long-running magazine shows Talk Your Own and Mu Tattauna (Let's Talk).
Since 2020, we have been working as part of the Inclusive Futures consortium led by Sightsavers which aims to dispel stigma and promote inclusion around people with disabilities. Our most recent series of radio drama Madubi (Mirror) informed and empowered young Nigerians, including people with disability, to make informed decisions about their health, while encouraging disability inclusive health services access. Previously, through our popular radio series in English and Pidgin English, Story Story, we tackled stigma and promoted disability inclusion in society and the workforce with exciting storylines.
Latest news from Nigeria
Our projects in Nigeria
Challenging attitudes on disability: The return of Story Story
Our popular radio drama reflecting the lives of ordinary Nigerians is back on air across sub-Saharan Africa with a new focus – to transform attitudes around people with disabilities, with storylines, actors and writers that reflect their experiences.
Inclusive Futures: media for a fairer world
As part of the Inclusive Futures consortium, we’re working through media to improve knowledge of the rights of people with disabilities, and challenging stigma, discrimination and negative social norms related to people with disabilities.
Leave no one behind: Improving participation in the 2019 Nigerian Elections
We’re helping people in Nigeria become more involved in political processes and hold their leaders to account. With an emphasis on reaching young people, women, and people with disabilities, our content aims to ensure traditionally marginalised groups are heard.
Helping improve child health through radio in Nigeria
Helping families and the wider community make informed decisions about childhood immunisation - with the aim of reducing preventable death and disability.
