While lamenting the 7.5% usage of family planning contraceptives in the state for both traditional and modern methods, the Executive Director, Niger state Primary Health Care Development Agency, NSPHCDA, Dr Ahmed Dangana said at a three day Media workshop field reporting trip on Advanced Family Planning organized by Pathfinder International in Minna that out of 100 women, only about seven access the service.
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UNICEF Chief of Field Office in Kano, Maulid Warfa, gave the charge at a Media Dialogue on COVID-19.
Hawkins disclosed this in his remarks at the third quarter Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Health Care’s review meeting on Monday in Abuja.
The Chief Child Protection, UNICEF, Ibrahim Sesay, made this known on Friday in Ibadan at a state level engagement with traditional rulers, religious leaders and other stakeholders.
The MICS is a primary source of information on women and children as it provides statistical indicators that are critical for the measurement of human development.
Makinde, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Economic Affairs, Professor Musibau Babatunde, described the statistics as a veritable tool to achieve analytical ideas for development.
The vaccines will be allocated and distributed by the initiative known as the Africa Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) and the COVAX global vaccine initiative.
This was the thrust of a three-day training for law enforcement agents, judicial officers and government agencies.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Ali Inname, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Sokoto on Sunday while giving an update on the gastroenteritis epidemic ravaging the state.
UNICEF said the avoidable death of the children was another sad reminder that children remain direct and indirect targets of the protracted conflict wracking North-east Nigeria.
A report released by UNICEF reveals that children in Africa have the lowest birth registration rate globally, with Nigeria accounting for 11 per cent of the rate in West Africa.
Speaking during the formal launch of the GenU initiative in Abuja on Monday, 26th July 2021, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya, who was represented by the company’s Vice President, Corporate Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility, Emeka Oparah, said the initiative aligns with the telco’s philosophy of connecting, empowering and helping young Nigerians to become more productive and empowered to solve some of the most pressing problems affecting the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports in Minna on Sunday that the programme supported by UNICEF on violence against children is being carried out in Rafi, Edati, Mashegu, Mariga, Mokwa, and Lavun of the state.
Speaking at a sensitization advocacy programme organised for Food Handlers and Health Teachers in the Lagos Central Senatorial District in Surulere on Thursday, Permanent Secretary Office of Environmental Services, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Aderonke Odeneye said that the programme is aimed at eradicating malnutrition in Lagos State.
In a statement on Wednesday July 7, 2021, the organization noted that on July 5, 150 students were abducted from a school in Kaduna State
Miriam Moreso, UNICEF Chief Education Manager, Sokoto Office, conducted the handing over on Friday.
The State Director of NOA, Dr. Desmond Owno, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abakaliki on Tuesday that the campaign covered the 13 local government areas.
Vanessa Phala, the ILO Country Director for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Liaison Office for ECOWAS shared this concern during the inaugural National Children’s Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour (NCCECL) themed “Act Now: End Child Labour” at the Reiz Continental Hotel, in Abuja on Wednesday, June 16 2021.
Obaseki made the call in commemoration of the 2021 World Day Against Child Labour, with the theme, “Act now: end child labour!” marked every June 12, by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and observed across the globe.
Niyi Yusuf, NASFAT’s National President, made the call at a press conference, as part of a campaign tagged, ”EU-UN spotlight initiative on ending VAWG,” on Saturday, in Yola.