Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the FCT, help arrives every year.
Almost none of it is counted.

Titita Empowerment Foundation sponsored 25 girls through the Give Back Project of the Queen’s College Old Girls Association (QCOGA), Abuja & North Chapter. The project formed part of the chapter’s Founder’s Day Walkathon on Saturday 10 October 2026.

Under the Give Back Project, the chapter set out to provide care packs to 250 girls at ₦7,000 per girl, to mark the International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October. Members were invited to adopt as many girls as they could. The Foundation’s sponsorship covers 25 of those care packs, one in every ten.

A walk on Founder’s Day, a year from the centenary

Queen’s College, Lagos was founded on 10 October 1927. To mark its 99th Founders’ Day, the Queen’s College Old Girls’ Association held a global walkathon on 10 October 2026, with old girls walking in cities across Nigeria, the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. The walk opened the countdown to the school’s centenary in 2027.

The Abuja & North Chapter, which covers Abuja and the North East, North West and North Central zones, set off at 7 a.m. Members contributed in cash or in kind towards walkathon essentials and refreshments, and wore branded QCOGA shirts and caps.

The association’s president, Engr. Temitayo Okunoren-Makindipe, has set up a committee chaired by Ms Prisca Soares to prepare the centenary programme. The association’s existing work for the school includes the Light Up QC solar lighting initiative, an endowment fund, mentoring and career guidance, and improvements to learning and sporting facilities.

Why the Foundation took part

Girls’ education and second-chance learning is one of the Foundation’s six programme areas. Supporting an established alumnae network that is already reaching girls is consistent with how the Foundation works: it adds to programmes that already function rather than building parallel ones.

“Our ambition is to transform the sisterhood shared by generations of old girls into enduring support for today’s students and those yet to come.”

Engr. Temitayo Okunoren-MakindipePresident, QCOGA

Titita Empowerment Foundation sponsored this year’s Unfiltered 2.5, “Let’s talk sex, self-control and the power of the mind”. The series is run by Nküzhi Learning Foundation, which has organised workshops and camps for teenagers and young adults since 2016, and was delivered with Bridge-Edge Consultancy and Legacies Ltd. Students, mentors and facilitators met in a safe, interactive space for candid discussion, grounded in both faith and science.

What participants did

1. Guided visualisation. Students imagined themselves five years ahead and the choices that led them there.
2. Personal Challenge Cards. Each wrote down one boundary or commitment they were ready to make.
3. Affirmation Circle. Participants declared statements such as “I have the power to…” and “I am choosing to…”
4. The 3 Cs. Chances, Choices and Consequences: opportunities come to everyone; choices decide the outcome.

Respect, confidentiality and non-judgment were the ground rules. Many students arrived unsure or hesitant; for most, the biggest takeaway was that they were not alone.

“Your mind is the control center of your life. Whatever you master here, you master in your future.”

Dr. (Mrs.) Oluwatoyin Elizabeth AbayomiLead facilitator

On the night of 9 September 2024, after weeks of heavy rain across Bama, Damboa and Gwoza, the Alau Dam in Konduga local government overflowed and gave way. Within hours its water was moving through Maiduguri and Jere. It was the first time the dam had overflowed since 2012, and residents compared it with the flood of 1994.

By 15 September, OCHA counted more than 414,000 people affected across the state. Over 300,000 had registered at 30 temporary relocation sites, many of them schools, and some 700,000 more had moved in with relatives. The state government later assessed 85,000 homes as damaged across 19 wards of Greater Maiduguri.

A city cut in two

The Lagos Street and Gwange bridges partly collapsed. The Muna camp, already home to about 57,000 people displaced by the insurgency, was cut off from the city, its markets and its services. Telephone and electricity networks went down in several districts, and access to hospitals and markets stayed limited for days.

Most of the people the water reached had been displaced before. Borno has carried a decade of conflict, and many families were living in camps that sit on low ground. For them the flood was a second loss of shelter, food stores and documents.

Where the Foundation came in

By early October the water had receded in Maiduguri and Jere, and the number of people in emergency shelters had fallen from a peak of around 400,000 to about 50,000. Those whose homes were still submerged were moved to larger consolidated sites. On 5 May 2025, Titita Empowerment Foundation delivered relief support to households in Borno who were still displaced by the flooding.

The same river-driven risk runs through Nasarawa. The Benue floodplain local governments rise every season, and NEMA chose Nasarawa to launch the 2025 national flood response campaign. Borno is the reason the Foundation’s climate programme is built around early action rather than relief alone.

“Sustained assistance is critical to save lives, restore livelihoods and to rebuild vital infrastructure.”

UN OCHANigeria situation report, 7 October 2024