By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Wife of the Cross River State Governor, Her Excellency Rev. Mrs Eyoawan Bassey Otu has flagged off the zero water campaign across the 18 local government areas of the state. Addressing women political stakeholders at Danic Hotel Calabar, Mrs Otu said...
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BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) with funding from Eleva Foundation in collaboration with Sokoto State Arabic and Islamic Education Commission and the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, has flagged off an entrepreneurship skills acquisition programme for 4,700 almajiri and adolescent girls...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF and its partner, Goal Prime Organisation on Thursday launched a Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) interventions for about 33,000 children with severe and moderate malnutrition in 3 OTP Centers of 3 wards of Mafa LGA of Borno State. The interventions was aimed...
UNESCO, UNICEF, ILO and Education International say countries should ensure that teaching is transformed into a more attractive and valorised profession where teachers are valued, trusted, and adequately supported. Audrey Azoulay, Director-General, UNESCO, Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General, International Labour Organisation, Catherine Russell, Executive Director, UNICEF, David Edwards, General Secretary,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Kano – The Chief of UNICEF Field Office in Kano State, Dr. Rahama Farahhas advised that all hands must urgently be on the deck towards halting the escalation of diphtheria disease. Dr. Farah, who spoke on Tuesday in Kano at a one day media...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Social protection has been identified as one of the ways of reducing economic disparities among citizens in Cross River State The state Commissioner of Humanitarian Affairs, Helen Egodo stated this on Thursday during a two day Capacity Building Workshop for CSO/CBO on Public...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, uSokoto – The Sokoto State Arabic and Islamic Education Commission with support from United Nations Childrens’ Fund (UNICEF) and funding from Eleva Foundation of the UK , on Thursday flagged off a 4 day training for 100 mallams of Tsangaya schools on child safeguarding and...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has taken its awareness campaign to rural communities in Cross River state. This time around, the campaign was in Ikot Offiong Ambai Primary Health Centre in Akpabuyo Local Government Area (LGA) of the state at weekend with...
The United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) Nigeria in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education is celebrating a significant milestone as the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP) platform reaches 500,000 users. UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Saturday....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says 4,204 children associated with armed conflict in the North East have been handed over to governments of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe after the routine re-radicalization and rehabilitation for onward reintegration processes with their families and loved...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Sokoto State Government on Tuesday signed the Transformative Actions partnership on Almajiri and out-of-school adolescent girls in the state. Signing the partnership documents in UNICEF office, Sokoto State Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Women...
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that a spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is pushing children into the worst cholera crisis since 2017. Across the country, at least 31,342 suspected or confirmed cholera cases and 230 deaths...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – About 181,000 children in the eight prioritized Local Government Areas of Borno state in the North East Nigeria are not immunized, according to UNICEF. The UNICEF Country Representative in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate , who stated this while addressing newsmen on Friday in...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that babies who are not exclusively breastfed have 14 times chances of dying before they celebrate their first birthday compared to those who went through exclusive breastfeeding. The Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Nigeria,...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Secretary to the Cross River State Government, Professor Anthony Owan Enoh has reiterated the state government’s commitment to plan well for its citizens, maintaining that “without the children of today there will be no tomorrow”. Professor Enoh stated this on Friday in...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A total of 37 pupils who were out-of-school were enrolled at the Central Primary School, Misau in Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State following the introduction of a new system called “Teaching at the Right Level”. The Director, School Services, Bauchi State...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The United Nations Children’s Fund has stated that only 26.4 percent of children aged 0 to 5 months in Bauchi State are exclusively breastfed according to the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2021 report. A Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Bauchi Field Office, Philomena Irene, stated...
Diphtheria has claimed the lives of 122 children in Nigeria as at July 2023, UNICEF’s Communications Officer in Nigeria, Ms Safiya Akau, stated on Thursday. She stated that UNICEF was amplifying its efforts to counter the growing outbreak of diphtheria that has affected children in 27 states of...
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, says the over 38 million pounds humanitarian assistance to Nigeria’s North-east in the past 12 month has saved the lives of vulnerable, conflict-affected persons. Cleverly made this known while visiting the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) on Wednesday at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says no fewer than 1.6 million children are out of school in North East Nigeria. “We look at the vast and unique education needs of children affected by conflict with at least 1.6 million children are...