In Nigeria, women whose husbands have died can face stigma, suspicion and families who take their homes from them.
![Monsurat Omobonike’s parents died when she was very young. Her much older husband stepped in to support her when she was just a teenager but he died of a stroke in 2003 at the age of 60. She has struggled to support her children since and also lost her son at the age of 30 [Femi Amogunla/AL Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_1659.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
In Nigeria, women whose husbands have died can face stigma, suspicion and families who take their homes from them.
![Monsurat Omobonike’s parents died when she was very young. Her much older husband stepped in to support her when she was just a teenager but he died of a stroke in 2003 at the age of 60. She has struggled to support her children since and also lost her son at the age of 30 [Femi Amogunla/AL Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_1659.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
On Nigeria’s Children’s Day, we profile children who are working to support themselves and their families.
![“People are shocked sometimes when they compare my physical size to the amount of work that I do.” Kunle*, 13, apprentice bricklayer [Femi Amogunla/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Children-and-Apprenticeship_Kunle_-Bricklayer-Repairer_01.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
From social distancing as a visually impaired person to coping with closed hospitals, five Nigerians tell their stories.
![‘I can’t count the number of times I had fallen sick since Covid -19 started and I dare not go to any of the hospital for fear of contracting the virus,’ says Ifeoma [Femi Amogunla/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Covid_and-_Disability_Ifeoma_001.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As the world struggles to manage its waste, residents of Ibadan present alternative ways to recycle.
![Jumoke Olowokere’s giant Christmas tree, constructed from discarded bottles, has become a permanent fixture on the street near her office in Ibadan [Femi Amogunla/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/World_Recycle_Day_Jumoke_Olowokere_003.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Each year, Yoruba people in Nigeria offer thanks to the goddess of the river and mother of all other Yoruba gods.
![One of the Bata drummers during the procession to the river [Femi Amogunla/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CY_Amogunla_10.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Young Ghanaians who travelled to Nigeria to work as farm hands show the most precious possession they took with them.
![Thirteen-year-old Koffi left Ghana for the first time when he came to Nigeria to work as a farm hand [Femi Amogunla/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bits-from-Home_Koffi_-E1.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)