The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has revealed that recent attacks on schools, particularly in the North East and North West regions in 2021, have led to learning disruptions for over 1.3 million children, necessitating precautionary school closures. This is…
The UN 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…
By Sodiq Adelakun In a sobering report coinciding with World Children’s Day 2023, the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that climate change has displaced approximately 650,000 Nigerian children between 2016 and 2023. Nigeria now ranks as the…
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria, as the second most vulnerablecountry worldwide in terms of children’s exposure to climate change, has over 110 million children confrontedwith harsh realities of rising temperatures. This is contained in a statement on Monday…
UNICEF on Friday in Maiduguri urged Borno to accelerate the stoppage of open defecation. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Manager of UNICEF, Maiduguri Field Office, Mrs Mamita Thakkar, made the call in a presentation as part of events to…
The Enugu State Government, says it will partner with the United Nations’ Children Fund (UNICEF) on programmes geared towards the eradication of poverty to improve human capital development. Gov. Peter Mbah said this at the inauguration of the steering committee…
Nigeria currently accounts for 15 percent out of school children worldwide, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday revealed. The UNICEF Nigeria Country Representative, Ms Cristian Munduate disclosed this during an event organised to commemorate this years International Day…
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has deployed 9.3 million doses of diphtheria vaccines to affected states in Nigeria following the most severe diphtheria outbreak in recent global history. A statement by UNICEF communication assistant, Nchekwube Nwosu-Igbo, said the doses…
Airtel and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have expressed their satisfaction and delight at the progress rate of the Re-imagine Education program in Nigeria, describing the students’ enthusiasm and improved learning outcomes as proof to the effectiveness of the…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appealed to governments at all levels and relevant stakeholders to increase budgeting for nutrition to reverse the trend of malnutrition among Nigerian children. UNICEF Nutrition Officer, Ms Nkeiru Enwelum, made the appeal on…
