The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Wednesday, urged communities to protect children and women against violence and abuses in Niger. Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Kaduna Filed Office, Dr Wilfred Mammah, made…
Sokoto State Executive Council presided over by the state deputy governor, Manir Muhammad Dan-Iya, on Friday, approved the sum of over N3.4 billion as a variation claim for the completion of the 38 kilometres Dogon Daji-Sabawa- Garba Magaji road in…
By Ibiyemi Mathew Airtel Nigeria has announced that it is partnering with UNICEF under the Reimagine Education Initiative to porise Digital learning services to 300,00 students in Nigeria. The partnership seeks to connect 620 primary schools in Nigeria to digital…
The United Nations Children Funds UNICEF says the under-five child mortality rate dropped by 37% in Jigawa State. Chief of UNICEF, Kano Office Rahama Mohammed Farah stated this on Friday at the launching of the Multiple Indicator cluster survey MICS…
No fewer than 18.3 million Nigerian children are currently identified to have lacked access to the four walls of the classrooms. The figures, which came from the leadership of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday via a statement…
The Prison Decongestion programme of the Ministry of Justice has resulted in the release of 12,000 inmates across correctional centres in the country since 2016. Secretary of the Prison Decongestion Committee of the ministry, Mrs. Patricia Ayoola Daniels made this…
Malawi on Tuesday received a consignment of 2.9 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) for a single dose reactive campaign to the Cholera outbreak. The recent outbreak has killed over 200 people since the country reported the first case…
There are growing fears from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) of over 1.5 million children’s education and health being jeopardized over recent flooding that has affected over 30 states in Nigeria. Although climate change has partly been attributed to…
The war in Ukraine and rising inflation has pushed an addition four million children across Eastern Europe and Central Asia into poverty. The United Nations Children’s agency UNICEF said in a report released on Monday. The figure, representing a 19…
The Kano State Government has revealed that it will collaborate with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to check open defecation. Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmad-Sagagi, said this on Thursday while inaugurating the distribution…
