Mr Michael Banda, Senior Education Manager, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Kano Field Office, said the agency spent $109 million for the implementation of the Girl Education Project 3 (GEP) in six Northern states of Nigeria. Banda, who disclosed this during a Media Dialogue on Girls Education in Bauchi...
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BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sultan of Sokoto and President General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111 has decried that poverty rather than the desire for acquiring Islamic education could be the reason for some parents sending their wards to other places...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – No fewer than 99 percent of the documented 230, 535 Almajiris in Sokoto State are away from their parents and under the care of their respective Mallams, while 85 percent of the vulnerable girls are under the care of their parents, yet out of...
Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving shots in 2021. The figures released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, show the percentage...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Over 500,000 conflict-affected people will benefit from a new humanitarian and development package aimed at enhancing peace, increasing livelihood opportunities and providing education, health, nutrition, child protection, and sanitation support to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations in Borno and Yobe States. The UNICEF...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF, World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with the Borno State Ministry of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning have organized a one day workshop on Resilience and Social Cohesion in North-East Nigeria with Shani LGA of Borno State and Bade LGA of Yobe State...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commended the Nigerian Police Force over the recent rescue of 50 abducted children, who were being held by a church at its premises in Ondo Town. The UNICEF Nigeria Representative, Peter Hawkins, who gave the commendation in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has hinted that the new education curriculum being developed will focus on skills and entrepreneurship in a bid to enhance the employability of graduates. This is even as stakeholders decried that schools are not providing students with the required...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has provided 102,859 children access to inclusive, equitable and quality education in a safe and protective learning environment mostly girls in Borno State. Unicef has also supported a total of 29,985 out-of-school youths and adolescents , mostly females...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – It is no more news that Nigeria has good policies and programme in every facet of the society but the reoccurring dilemma has been a lack of political will to implement them. Stakeholders in education sectors including UNICEF, the media, Civil Society Organizations and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has called on the Federal Government to make schools safe and provide a secure learning environment for every child in Nigeria, especially for girls, to increase girls’ enrollment, retention, and completion of education. The UNICEF Communication Officer in Borno State, Mrs. Folashade Adebayo,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has advised Federal Government to focus more on Child Rights Act to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on Education. This was even as it said Nigeria is facing one of the worst crisis of staggering learning outcomes in...
By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has launched a two-year $9.5 million advancing nutrition programme to improve the nutritional health of Nigerians in Bauchi, Kebbi, and Sokoto states. The programme will address the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition, provide technical support, share innovations,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAy) States in collaboration with UNICEF on Tuesday organized a one day official dissemination of Manual on building resilience in the education sector with support from the global partnerships for education functionaries and related sectors. UNICEF Chief of Field Office...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The European Union (EU) and UNICEF have built the capacity of 50 government education officers in north-east Nigeria to improve the quality of data and evidence available to formulate impactful policies and drive targeted investments in the education sector in the region. A statement...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Very few African Union member states have been projected to achieve universal access to safely managed drinking water, safely managed sanitation or basic hygiene services by 2030. In other to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets on water, sanitation and hygiene, Africa will...
Katsina, UNICEF integrate 53,000 ‘ Almajiris’ pupils into formal education, target additional 40,000
Katsina, UNICEF integrate 53,000 ‘ Almajiris’ pupils into formal education, target additional 40,000
The Katsina State Government, in collaboration with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), has integrated over 53,000 ‘ Almajiri’ children into Western Education. The state’s Commissioner of Education, Prof. Badamasi Lawal, disclosed this on Friday, when he received in his office, a United Nations (UN) team, led by the...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto The Sokoto State Arabic and Islamic Education Board, Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and Sokoto State Zakkat and Waqf and Empowerment Commission with support from UNICEF have held a 2 day meeting with stakeholders in the state towards having a strategic action plan for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A new WHO/UNICEF reports have revealed that globally, more than half of parents and pregnant women (51 per cent) surveyed have been exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing by many nutrient companies, much of which is in breach of international standards on infant feeding...
A UK-based charity, IA-Foundation has secured endorsements from music star ‘Davido’ and a two-time former unified world heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, to signpost its international campaign to end out-of-school crisis in Nigeria. David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, is a Nigerian-American singer, songwriter and record producer, who blends African...