By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has affirmed that education is a global resource for learning and the acquisition of relevant skills for opportunities in today’s world, adding that it promotes wellbeing while serving as a “catalyst for peace.” The UNICEF Chief...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) in collaboration with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) have supported education sector through Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria under a 4- year education Program for Borno and Yobe states – Education in Emergency Programmes...
Federal Government has unveiled plan to upscale its World Bank-partnered project, the Nigeria for Women Project (NFWP) to target more rural communities for economic empowerment. The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, made this known during a strategic meeting with the World Bank, UNICEF and other key partners...
The Secretary to the Enugu State Government (SSG), Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, says 50 per cent of pupils in the state can neither read in English nor solve simple mathematics questions. Onyia stated this while delivering a keynote address titled, “Smart Basic Education and the Future of Africa” at...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday appealed for nearly 2 billion dollars to provide lifesaving assistance to more than 24 million boys and girls across West and Central Africa in 2024. It projected that 46.7 million children in the region would face another year of humanitarian...
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...
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...