Monday, 27 October 2025

How Media and Government Can Save Nigeria’s Primary Health Care

Our Founder, Ramatu Ada Ochekliye, Serving as a Rapporteur at the High-Level Health Media Dialogue

Insights from the High-Level Health Media Dialogue with Media Executives in Nigeria

Theme: Escalating Executive and Media Action for Health Accountability and Financing

Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025

Venue: Transcorp Hilton, Abuja

By Ramatu Ada Ochekliye

Friday, 10 October 2025

Beijing+30 High-Level Meeting: Global Leaders Recommit to Women’s Rights

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of Namibia delivers her address at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 22 September 2025. Photo: UN Women / Ryan Brown

By Atinuke Adeosun 

On September 22, 2025, the halls of the United Nations Headquarters in New York carried the weight of history and the urgency of now. The world had gathered to mark thirty years since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, where global leaders first agreed to an ambitious blueprint for gender equality.

A Round Table on Advancing Inclusive Governance

 

By Chiamaka Mbah

Shades of Us participated in the ElectHER and Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ) September Roundtable Webinar 2025, a timely conversation centered on two critical legislative efforts: the Reserved Seats Bill and the Independent Candidacy Bill. The event, themed Advancing Inclusive Governance, brought together political leaders, advocates, and changemakers to discuss how these bills could reshape Nigeria’s democratic future by promoting inclusive governance and broadening political participation.

Monday, 6 October 2025

Footprints of Memory: Beauty and Triumph Amidst Displacement

Image by Ojonugwa Yahya

By Ojonugwa Yahya


In the heart of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) community, we are not merely extending aid — we are inscribing history. Every gesture of kindness, every shared smile, every scar and song becomes a footprint etched into the memory of humanity.

Lightning Talk: Stories That Surprised Me

Lightning Talkat the Solutions Journalism Africa Summit in Abuja Reflections from the SoJo Africa Summit 2025 By Simbiat Amzat The SoJo Afri...