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...
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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...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on the Federal and state governments and employers to take decisive actions to ensure a supportive breastfeeding environment for all working mothers, including those in the formal and informal sector. The UNICEF Country Representative...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other Social Protection Development Partners including Save the Children, Ministry of Finance, and others have teamed up to redefine Nigeria’s poverty profile by expanding social protection. At the opening ceremony of a two-day policy and programmatic dialogue...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday reported that no fewer than 435 children had been killed and more than 2,000 others injured in 100 days of fighting in Sudan. UNICEF stated that the figure is based on credible reports, noting that the true figure was likely to...
In Sudan, about 435 children have been killed and 2,025 injured since violence broke out three months ago, according to a statement issued by the UN children’s agency UNICEF on Monday. “The impact that this conflict has had on children in Sudan over the last 100 days is...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has identified poverty as major determinant of whether a child has access to immunisation against vaccine-preventable disease or not. The fund disclosed this in its ‘State of The World’s Children 2023’ report, adding that there are millions of such children in Africa, referred to...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on the Federal Government and other stakeholders in the education sector to take Nigeria Learning Passport NLP seriously to reduce the number of children not receiving education. “Digital technology provides us with a platform to...
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), says about 61,000 children spread across the five South East States have not received any vaccination.unicwf Mrs Cristian Munduate, UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, gave the statistics at the ongoing First Quarterly Review Meeting of the South-East Zone Traditional Rulers’ Committee on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria is rated the highest country with high rate of open defecation across the world. UNICEF Nigeria WASH Specialist, Chisom Adimorah disclosed this during a two-day media dialogue on open defecation in Biu, Borno State. The event was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nation Education Fund ,UNICEF has reaffirmed its commitment to end open defecation in Nigeria in 2025 in collaboration with public and private organisations, government and Non Governmental Organizations, media, and other stakeholders. The UNICEF Chief of Field Office, North-East Nigeria , Phuong T....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Emir of Biu, HRH, Alhaji Mustapha Umar Mustapha Aliyu has appealed to his subjects to be involved in mobilising and providing toilet facilities within their residential areas in Biu Emirate without no exception. He also called on his subjects to comply with the...
The UN children’s fund (UNICEF) has deplored the death of 27 children and 53 others who were injured after unexploded ordnance exploded at a playing field near Qoryoley town in southern Somalia on Friday. Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef, UNICEF Representative in Somalia, said the UN agency was deeply shocked and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), the National Population Commission (NPC), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have announced a new partnership aimed at enhancing birth registration in Nigeria. A statement issued and signed by the UNICEF Communication Officer, Borno State, Folashade Adebayo...
UNICEF says it is mobilising resources to improve access to quality education by poor and vulnerable children in Kaduna State. UNICEF Country Representative in Nigeria, Ms Cristian Munduate, stated this in Kaduna on Sunday during the annual UNICEF Access Bank Charity Shield Polo Tournament, at Fifth Chukker Country Polo...
(The Dangote brand has, for the sixth consecutive year, been adjudged the most admired african brand among top 100 brands on the continent. The company announced the development in a statement signed by Mr Francis Awowole- Browne, corporate communications personnel, Dangote Group, on Sunday in Lagos. According to the...
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says it vaccinated 30 million children in Nigeria in the last five years. The Communication Specialist, Mr Geoffrey Njoku, made the assertion on Monday in Kano during a two-day media dialogue. The dialogue was on UNICEF’s new country programme 2023-2027 and the status...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday that decentralisation, digitisation, and interoperability would drive the registration of the birth of 12.7 million children across the country in 2023. UNICEF Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Kaduna Field Office, Dr Wilfred Mamah, said this at the state-level kick-off operational plan...