The World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) say 43 countries, including Nigeria, now face outbreaks as increasing numbers of cholera cases are being reported. They said the outcome for patients was worse than 10 years ago. The UN agencies, in a statement on Friday, said that...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Owing to Governor Babagana Zulum’s performance on primary healthcare delivery, Borno State has emerged winner of the maiden Primary Healthcare Leadership Award both at the national and regional levels for the year 2022. The win entitled Borno to receive a prize of $700,000 for...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and National Population Commission (NPC) have rolled out birth registration of one million children in Kano in 2023 using the digital system. Speaking at a two-day stakeholders engagement meeting on Digital Birth Registration in Kano on Thursday, the UNICEF’s Kano Chief of Field...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A Non Governmental Organization, Goal Prime Organization Nigeria, has launched a borehole project in Mafa town of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno state with support from UNICEF. The Country Director, Goal Prime Organization Nigeria, Dr. Christopher Chinedumuije in his remark, said the initiative...
CLAIM: A viral WhatsApp message that has been circulating claims UNICEF is recruiting. VERDICT: FALSE The message making the claim contains a link http://archive.today/2023.04.15-110154/https://unicef-recruitment.offernow.online/ which directs to the UNICEF-impersonated page The site, which appears as https://unicef-recruitment.offernow.online/, also attempts to impersonate the UNICEF’s original website. The impostor website asks users to fill in...
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has urged youth to embrace digital learning platforms in accelerating skilling, up skilling and employment opportunities. Mrs Blessing Ejiofor, UNICEF Communication Specialist, said this on Thursday in Lagos at a two-day workshop organised in collaboration with National Orientation Agency (NOA), Lagos Office, for...
UNICEF says at least 2.2 million Nigerian children did not receive a single dose of vaccine between 2019 and 2021. It says also that globally, 67 million children missed out on routine immunisation between 2019 and 2022 as 48 million of them did not receive a single routine vaccine....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The CEO/Country Director of Goal Prime Organization of Nigeria, Dr. Christopher. Chinedumuije has solicited for urgent intervention and support for the victims of fire disaster and host community of Boskoro Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp In Mafa LGA of Borno state. Dr Christopher, during...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), GOAL Prime Organization Nigeria, has launched a borehole rehabilitation project in Mafa town of Mafa Local Government of Borno state with support from UNICEF. The Country Director, GOAL Prime Organization of Nigeria, Dr. Christopher Chinedumuije, in his remark while...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A humanitarian intervention focused on providing integrated food, nutrition sanitation and protection services in Nigeria’s north-east region will empower over 300,000 mothers and caregivers. The intervention is aimed at enhancing dietary practices, home-based malnutrition screening skills, provision of high impact lifesaving nutrition interventions (such...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Child Rights Information Bureau (CRIB), of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture in collaboration with UNICEF on Thursday in Enugu Kick start a two-day Training of Trainers (TOT), on the Presentation of New Curriculum for Child Rights in tertiary institutions. The objective...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has expressed the commitment of the FCT Administration towards providing equitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene services, while strengthening community-led approaches to total sanitation. The minister who gave this commitment on Wednesday in Abuja at the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – No fewer than 78 million children in Nigeria are at the risk of three water-related threats, according to The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) The UNICEF Nigeria Chief of WASH, Dr Jane Bevan, who disclosed this in a statement n Monday, listed the threats...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged mothers to give priority to maternal nutrition and first 1,000 days of a child’s life, describing it as golden window that must not be compromised. Ada Ezeogu, UNICEF Nutritionist Specialist, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of...
Lagos State accounts for about 2,000 children with stunted growth due to malnutrition, Mrs Ada Ezeogu, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Nutrition Specialist, said on Saturday. Consequently, Ezeogu said that it was imperative to ensure that the numbers didn’t continue to increase because stunting affected the physical growth and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The UNICEF Chief of Maiduguri Field Office, , Phuong T. Nguyen has amplified the achievements of the Global Partnership for Education Accelerated Funding project.. In her welcome address, during a media dialogue with journalists on Wednesday in Maidugiri, she said ,”Your presence here today...
UNICEF has trained 18,000 unqualified teachers in the Northeast through the Global Partnership on Education (GPE) Accelerated Fund intervention project beginning from 2021. The 12-month training is an initiative of the Nigerian government through the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Teachers Institute (NTI) and the Teachers Registration Council...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As the world mark 2023 international day of zero tolerance for female gender mutilation , United Nations Education Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency (UNFPA) have disclosed that 4.3 millions girls are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in...
The death toll in the Cholera outbreak in Ekureku community in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River has risen from Saturday’s figure of 20 to 51 on Monday. The clan head of the community, Chief Bernard Egbe, stated this when he received the candidate of the Peoples Democratic...
Education propels growth and industrialisation. Education lays the foundation for virtually all forms of human development that repel poverty. However, in spite of the obvious contributions of education to growth and development, many African countries lag behind in the implementation of education components of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of...