Nigeria has not been faring well in global rankings in recent times. A new report shows that Nigeria is ranked the bottom 10 for performance on child flourishing....
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A study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) put the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria to 13.5 million – as of 2018.
An unimpressive mass of this number comes from Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, and other northern states....
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Buba Mafindi, Chairman of Taraba State Planning Commission, says over 35 million Nigerians are facing imminent starvation due to insecurity and desertification.
Mafindi gave the warning in Jalingo on Friday during the Child Friendly Community Initiative meeting of stakeholders organised by the...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said Nigeria may lose two million children to pneumonia in the next decade if modalities are not put in place to curb the disease.
The UN body identified malnutrition, air pollution and lack of access to vaccines and …
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Malawi has opened the first African Drone and Data Academy(ADDA). The project is in partnership with UNICEF, The Global Fund, the German Government as well as partners from Scotland and Sweden.
The program has been under testing in the country since 2017. The drone testing and application work...
The United Nations Children’s Education Fund(UNICEF) on Tuesday said no fewer than 1.4 million residents of Ekiti State still engage in open defecation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the global body said this was why Ekiti was ranked second in open defecation practice …
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that Nigeria has over 13 million out of school children mostly recorded in the Northern states. Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Bauchi, Mr Patak Bhanu stated this....
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UNICEF said on Monday pneumonia remains the world’s leading infectious killer of children, claiming the lives of more than 2,000 children under the age of five every day.....
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With the alarmingly high rates of self-harm, suicide and anxiety among children and young people around the world, UNICEF and the World Health Organization are teaming up with some of the....
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International NGOs Monitoring Bureau, an organization that track the activities of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), has indicted UNICEF, Mercy Corps and other international NGOs for embezzling donor funds earmarked for Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs.
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United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lamented that despite measures put in place to benefit Nigerian children and young people, many are still being left behind especially in the area of education.
UNICEF Country Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, who disclosed …
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Indications emerged Wednesday that in less than two months, Nigerian would emerge the capital city of open defecation in the world with over 47 million still practising open defecation in the country....
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The Access Bank UK used its’ annual Access Bank Polo Day at Guards Polo Club Windsor on Saturday to post results showing another year of outstanding international business growth....
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Chairman, Nigerian National Polio Plus Committee, Dr. Tunji Funsho has said Nigeria would save about $500m in 10 years, if certified polio free, as about $50m is spent on containing wild polio virus annually.....
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In Africa, it’s not often we get to talk about rape. This is saying it mildly. We rarely talk about rape. When we do, it is done in whispers. It is done in isolated clusters, never discussed publicly.....
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commended Nigerians youths for taking up the challenge of tasking their governors to be committed to qualitative education for.....
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The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has stated that four Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Borno State were completely inaccessible for humanitarian assistance as a result of activities of terrorists in the affected places.
It said attacks and armed clashes remained...
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources says no fewer than 50 per cent of FCT residents defecates openly due to the challenge of non-availability of toilets in public places....
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Confronted by the enormity of water and environmental challenges in Delta State, the state Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday in Asaba declared a ‘state of emergency’ in the water and sanitation sectors.....
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