Alhaji Sa’ad Bello, the Camp Coordinator also confirmed that the common illnesses found among the IDPs were trauma, malnutrition and eyes problems
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The agency’s report was released a year after the Boko Haram’s kidnapping of 276 girls from their school in the north-eastern city of Chibok, inciting worldwide condemnation
The grant will be used for interventions focused on the Internally Displaced Persons and conflict affected populations in the North East of Nigeria in the sectors of Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Health, Nutrition, Child Protection and Education
The poor bear the greatest brunt of this lack of access to water and sanitation. For women and girls, collecting water cuts into time they can spend caring for families and studying. In insecure areas, it also puts them at risk of violence and attack. UNICEF estimates that in Africa alone, people spend 40 billion hours every year just walking to collect water. For children, lack of access to safe water can be tragic. On average, nearly 1,000 of them die globally every day from diarrhoeal diseases linked to unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation, or poor hygiene
With some 70 million people without access to safe water and over 110 million people without access to improved sanitation, Nigeria is currently not on-track with regard to its attainment of Water and Sanitation targets
There were 15 selected publishers of online newspapers from different parts of the country and representatives of major conventional newspapers based in Enugu, as well as some university lecturers in attendance
The UNICEF representative, Teni Medinat Shiru, who is the Niger State Leader for Polio, while speaking at the flag-off ceremony of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week in Minna, charged the state government to ensure sustainability in its interventions to improve the health sector
This was contained in a statement issued by UNICEF’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Manuel Fontaine, in New York, United States of America on Friday
He added that only 64 per cent of the world’s population had access to improved sanitation, stressing that it was sad to note that Nigeria was still among the top 10 countries practising open defecation
Niger state governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu on Wednesday restated his request for more money for States and Local Governments in the country from the federation account.
It is with great pleasure and pride that I welcome you to this presentation of the Budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year. First and foremost, permit me to thank Almighty God who has made it possible for me to stand before you and this distinguished House to present the Edo State Budget Proposal for the 2015 fiscal year
The United Nations Children’s Fund reports the Ebola crisis in Liberia is having a devastating health, psychological, and social impact on children.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $50 million on Wednesday to support emergency efforts to contain West Africa’s Ebola…
The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday announced that a total of 339 contacts who were previously under surveillance for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been discharged having completed 21 days of observation.
According to the statement, UNICEF is working to increase the number of primary health care centres from 43 to 65 in the two states
The UNICEF representative, who spoke on Wednesday during a courtesy call on Aregbesola, described the school feeding programme and Agba Osun Welfare Scheme as policies that aside adding value to the lives of pupils and elderly ones, are lasting legacies the administration would bequeath to the state
It said although the UN agencies observed a steady progress in saving mothers’ lives, there was a need for efforts to be geared towards investing in proven solutions such as quality care for all women during pregnancy and childbirth
Gough spoke when she addressed the planning meeting of the members of the Journalists Against Polio, for the September 2013 sub-polio immunisation plus days
“As we extend our sympathy to the families of the victims, we would say in the strongest possible terms that there can be no justification for the deliberate targeting of children and those looking after them,” the statement said
She said states and local governments, which had closer contacts with communities, should institutionalise performance reviews to “get value for money and to achieve the desired outcome for children