By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has warned that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is on the rise among Nigerian girls aged 0-14 years and it have risen from 16.9 per cent in 2013 to 19.2 per cent in 2018. In a bid to reduce this worrying trend, UNICEF has...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has welcomed the release of four girls abducted by armed groups in Borno State, north-east Nigeria. In a statement issued and signed by the Communication Officer Borno State, UNICEF, Mrs. Folashade Adebayo on Monday in Maiduguri, called for the immediate release of all...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As the world celebrates the International Day of Education, UNICEF has welcomed the Federal Government’s pledge to increase Nigeria’s annual domestic expenditure on efucation by 50 per cent over the next two years, and by 100 per cent by 2025. A statement issued and...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Benue State Government in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has provided over two thousand boreholes to communities in eight Local Government Areas of the state. Outgoing UNICEF Chief Field Officer in Nigeria, Dr Ibrahim Conteh who disclosed this Tuesday, January 18th,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has congratulated the children of Borno State as Governor Babagana Zulum, has signed the Borno State Child Protection Bill into law on Monday. The UNICEF Communication Officer, Borno State, Folashade Adebayo, gave the commendation on Tuesday in statement made available to journalists in...
Uganda ended the world’s longest school closure on Monday, ordering millions of students back to the classroom nearly two years after learning was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some 15 million pupils have not attended school in Uganda since March 2020 when classrooms were shuttered as Covid-19 swept...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), on Thursday in Abuja, launched a five-year action plan to tackle malnutrition in the country. The plan titled: ”National Multi-sectoral Plan of Action for Food...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Linda Ayade, Wife of Governor Ben Ayade on Monday said the state government is targeting no less than nine hundred children across the 18 local government Area’s for the second phase of vaccination against Poliomyelitis. The First Lady said this in Calabar during the official...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has said that around the world, one out of six children live in extreme poverty or less than US$ 1.9 per day and their families struggle to afford the basic health care and nutrition needed to provide them a strong start in life....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Speaker, Borno State House of Assembly (BOSHA), Rt. Hon. Abdulkarim Lawan has lamented over the increasing rate of child sexual abuse in the state. Hon. Lawan, who was represented by the Deputy Speaker, BOSHA, Hon. Engr. Abdullahi Askira, stated this while declaring open...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Latest statistical findings from the UNICEF has revealed that at least 300,000 children were newly infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) in 2020, or one child every two minutes. UNICEF revealed this in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Communication Officer, Borno State, Mra....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has revealed that over the past five years, the West and Central Africa region have consistently had some of the highest numbers of UN-verified grave violations against children in armed conflict. A statement issued on Tuesday by UNICEF Communication Officer, Borno State, Mrs....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Mrs. Mamita Thakkar, The Manager, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), UNICEF Maiduguri, has said Nigeria must invest at least $5.3 billion on WASH to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target by 2030. Thakkar said this known on Friday in Maiduguri at a One-Day Media...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on Nigerian governments and community stakeholders to build toilets in both public and private schools, markets, motor parks, office complexes, public places, business and other commercial places to promote behavioural change among the people in the society....
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Over 400 students of the Cross River University (UNICROSS) have pledged to champion the COVID-19 vaccination sensitization in their campus, among their peers and across the state. The students made the pledge during a town hall meeting organized by the Cross River State Government through...
As the world marks the 2021 World Toilet Day (WTD) on Friday, UNICEF has said the states of Abia, Zamfara, and Akwa-Ibom rank least while Kwara, Plateau, and Ebonyi rank highest in open defecation in Nigeria. According to it, there has been limited progress over the last two years...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As the world commentate World Toilet Day, UNICEF Officer in-Charge , UNICEF Chief of Maiduguri Office, Dr. Clement Adams said “across the country, about 48 million Nigerians lack access to toilets and the protection they confer against diseases and possible deaths.” Dr. Clement added...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – More than 45,000 children have been released from detention and safely returned to family or an appropriate alternative since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF revealed in its latest reports. The reports released on Sunday are “Detention of children in the time of...
The Assembly of Health Ministers of the ECOWAS region on Friday announced that Nigeria and other African countries would get access to the newly developed malaria vaccine by the first quarter of 2022. The Health Minister of Ghana, who is also the chairman of the assembly, Dr Kweku Agyeman-Manu,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As the world commemorates World Pneumonia Day today, UNICEF has revealed that Nigeria has the highest number of overall air pollution-related pneumonia deaths of children under-five in the world, and the highest number of household air pollution-related pneumonia deaths among children under-five. A statement...