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Kadilli stated that the meeting was part of efforts to support 250 million people globally to abandon open defecation.

He made the disclosure at the opening of a 3-day Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Federation Committee Zonal Orientation Workshop on Tuesday in Akure.

This was disclosed by the Director, Primary Health Care, Bodinga Local Government Council, Alhaji Hassan Kamba, at the commencement of the exercise.

Osun State was rated to have the highest prevalence rate of the practice of FGM in Nigeria, very well above the national prevalence rate, according to the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2016-17.

Gbenga stated this on Monday in two-day media dialogue on prevention of mother-to –child transmission where he stated that 12.4% of the global burden of HIV children with an estimated number of 267, 000 Nigerian children living with the…

Dikko made the call while handing over 28 rescued children to the UNICEF and Borno Government on Thursday in Maiduguri.

The State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Lawal Liman, gave the commendation at the 2018 World Polio Day celebration held in Gusau on Wednesday.

Hamidou Poufon, the UNICEF Chief Social Policy Officer in Nigeria, disclosed this while speaking at a Workshop on Public Finance for Children in Abuja on Wednesday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has made a fresh appeal to Boko Haram to release the two remaining hostages being held by them: Alice Loksha, who works for UNICEF, and Leah Sharibu, the Dapchi schoolgirl kidnapped on February…

The lawmakers, who made the condemnation at a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, in Abuja on Tuesday, also observed a minute silence for the deceased.

Mamadou Sow, Head of ICRC’s Operations in the Lake Chad Basin, in a statement on Sunday made an appeal to the Nigerian Government, communities and individuals towards the release of two medical workers.

Pernille Ironside, Deputy Representative of UNICEF Nigeria, made the commendation in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.

Sanusi, who gave the advice at a two-day Northern Nigeria Traditional Leaders Conference on Out-of-School Children, in Kaduna, said that the use of only English language in teaching has contributed to low educational development in the…

Adamu made this known in Kaduna on Wednesday at the opening of a two-day Northern Nigeria Traditional Leaders Conference on Out-of-School Children.

Pernille Ironside, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Nigeria, stated this on Wednesday in Kaduna, at the opening of a two-day Northern Nigeria Traditional Leaders Conference on Out-of-School Children.

Geoffrey Ijumba, Head of UNICEF in Borno State, stated this on Tuesday in Maiduguri at the opening ceremony of a training workshop organized for the children.

He stated this at a stakeholders meeting for situation analysis on newborn deaths in the state.

UNICEF’s Chief of Nutrition, Simeon Nanama, said that SAM children are 12 times more likely to die than healthy children if not treated.

The Director, Public Affairs Department of the commission, Mohammed Isah, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.

Khorsa, who worked for the Red Cross, was kidnapped about six months ago at the Rann camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Borno by Boko Haram terrorists.