Celine Lafoucriere, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Chief field officer in Nigeria, has restated the organisation’s commitment to partner with the Lagos State government to ensure that every newborn survives and strives in the state.
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A 20-year-old lady, Nwaedoka Chidimma, from the Izzi community in Ebonyi State, allegedly threw her newborn baby into a pit toilet in Otuocha community, Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, where she had gone to carry out a farming job.
The Police Command in Bauchi has arrested a 24-year-old woman, Furera Abubakar, over alleged murder of her four-day-old stepchild at Bantu village in Ningi Local government area of the state.
Mark said the Nigerian Government is committed to the drastic reduction of child and mother deaths on account of poor or inadequate health facilities