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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with Lagos state government has trained 65 journalists, including Blueprint reporter on e-birth registration and awareness drive. The chief head of UNICEF field …
UNICEF trains 65 journalists on e-birth registration, awareness Read More
The Yobe state government in collaboration with United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund(UNICEF) Thursday flagged off the 2024-2025 education enrollment drive campaign in Damaturu, the Yobe state capital. Speaking at …
Yobe, UNICEF begin 2024-2025 enrolment drive campaign in Damaturu Read More
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) in partnership with the Kwara state government Tuesday flagged off the introduction of free Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine against cervical cancer …
UNICEF declares cervical cancer vaccine safe Read More
Over ten thousand rural women in Gassol LG of Taraba state Sunday lauded Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (Gavi), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for introducing Mama-to …
Taraba: 10, 000 rural women laud Gavi, UNICEF mama to mama initiative Read More
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has established a new institute of Social Policy Studies at the Nsukka campus of the university. Speaking …
UNICEF, UNN establish social policy studies institute Read More
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has called on the federal government to provide adolescent girls with the platforms to express their feelings. UNICEF said those marginalised due to disability, …
UNICEF urges FG to assist 26m marginalised girls Read More
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says 4, 204 children associated with armed conflict in the North-east have been handed over to governments of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe after the …
Insecurity: UNICEF hands over 4, 204 North-east children for reintegration Read More
The World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF, and IRC have renovated, equipped and handed over an Isolation centre located at Specialist Hospital Potiskum to the Yobe state government in its quest …
WHO, UNICEF, IRC renovate, equip, handover isolation centre to Yobe government Read More
Nigeria, a country endowed with abundant natural resources and a rich cultural heritage, faces the challenge of maintaining a clean and healthy environment.perspective Historical perspective The most close-to a cleaner …
Towards cleaner, sustainable environment in Nigeria Read More
The United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) has called for an end to all forms of violence and abuse that have reportedly claimed the lives of over 6,800 children in Nigeria’s …
UNICEF demands urgent action to protect children in Northeast Read More
The UNICEF Internship Program for 2023-24 is now open to individuals worldwide who wish to develop their knowledge and improve their abilities. This opportunity is fully funded and accessible to …
UNICEF announces ‘work opportunities’ *See how to apply Read More
In its quest to minimise deaths resulting from Tetanus infections, the Borno state government in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and partners have immunised over one million …
Borno government, WHO, UNICEF immunise 94% reproductive age women against Tetanus Read More
Nigerian children are at the risk of losing their lives if the recent report by the global body, UNICEF, is anything to go by; IDACHABA SUNNY ELEOJO writes. Recently, the …
Malnutrition: Why UNICEF’s latest report on children should be taken seriously Read More
United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with Goal Prime Organization Nigeria (GPON), Borno State Environmental Protection Agency (BOSEPA) and other partners Tuesday organised Water and Sanitation Health …
World Toilet Day: UNICEF, GPON, BOSEPA, others organise WASH in Borno Read More
By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has commended the governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintiri, for signing the Child Protection Bill into law. According to …
UNICEF hails Fintri for domesticating child rights act Read MoreThe United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has declared that over 1.5 million children in the country were at the risk of losing their lives or being carried away by flooding …
Flood threatens 2.5m Nigerians, 1.5m children – UNICEF Read More
Jigawa state along with stakeholders are working towards a digitalised birth registration. BAYO MUHAMMAD ALABIRA reports. Jigawa is said to be the poorest state with the lowest child birth registration …
Jigawa and child birth registration: A case study Read MoreAlthough Nigeria is an economic giant in sub-Saharan Africa, it lags behind many other African countries in terms of health outcome indicators. For example, UNICEF cross-sector indicators data show the …
Making Adamawa state health budget beneficial to citizens Read MoreThis is not the first time that global bodies and concerned stakeholders would task the federal government on taking drastic action against open defaecation. ELEOJO IDACHABA takes a look at …
Still on open defaecation and UNICEF’s alarm Read MoreUNICEF’s executive director Catherine Russell has warned that almost eight million children under-five in 15 crisis-hit countries were at risk of death from severe wasting unless they received “immediate therapeutic …
Food: 8m children U-5 from 15 crisis-hit countries at risk – UNICEF Read MoreThe United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Wednesday, inaugurated oxygen desk committee members in Ebonyi state. The committee was inaugurated to provide support for the development of a state oxygen plan …
UNICEF, Ebonyi govt inaugurate oxygen desk committee Read MoreThe United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has provided 102,859 children access to inclusive, equitable and quality education in safe and protective learning environments during insurgency, Education Manager, UNICEF, Maiduguri …
UNICEF provides 102,859 children access to education Read MoreThe United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has trained and graduated 1,250 Adamawa indigenes in various vocational and technical education. Speaking at the graduation ceremony Monday in Hong local government, …
Vocational education: UNICEF trains, graduates 1, 200 Adamawa indigenes Read MoreThe Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (KADSEMA), weekend said it will partner with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on strategies to mitigate natural disasters. Executive Secretary of the agency, …
KADSEMA partners UNICEF on natural disasters Read MoreBased on the available figure on the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) website, over 10.5 million children are out of school in Nigeria, which is the highest globally. Nonetheless, 47.7 …
Need to implement the Act prohibiting child hawkers in Nigeria Read More