Nigeria's 'girl empowerment' initiative
When it comes to empowering women in Africa, education in essential, but in Nigeria there are more than 10 million school-age children who are not in education - many of whom are girls.
Trying to tackle this issue is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation called the Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative.
From the city of Kano in the north-west of the country, the BBC's Ijeoma Ndukwe went to find out more.
05 Jan 2018
- From the section Business