The victims made the revelation on Thursday during an Advocacy Dialogue organised by the National Orientation Agency in collaboration with the United Nations Children Emergency Fund.
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The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years – with millions more at risk due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF.
Known as: Improving Sanitation, Hygiene and Safe Drinking Water in North West Nigeria, the activity to be managed by UNICEF will provide life-saving WASH services to more than 300,000 people in need of assistance.
Building on UNICEF’s legacy of innovating for children and Duke’s track record of success in entrepreneurial education, the Accelerator supports social enterprises tackling the most pressing challenges facing children and youth around the world.
Mrs Elizabeth Onitolo, UNICEF Communication for Development (C4D) Specialists, made the call in Yola on Wednesday at a three-day media dialogue on Immunisation, Post-polio Certification and COVID-19 Vaccination.
This, it said, could happen even after the country had been certified free of polio by the World Health Organisation (WHO), hence the need for the media to increase awareness for persons in the North-east to embrace routine immunisation.
Dr. Abubakar Yakubu, Executive Director, Kogi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, led a team of officials from the agency and the Kogi State Ministry of Health to receive the vaccines at the Central Medical Store, Lokoja.
The Project Coordinator of Penlight Centre, Mohammad Dahiru Lawal who made the announcement while providing new sets of uniform, books, cash token, mattress and foodstuff to the young education enthusiast in her school, said she was also being scheduled for a special medical examination at the Dala Orthopaedic Hospital, Kano, where she would be properly inspected for possible acquisition of walking aid that will enable her to move around with her legs.
Akeredolu gave the assurance on Wednesday in Akure during the inauguration of COVID-19 vaccination in the state.
This was made known in a joint statement by the World Health Organisation, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) on Sunday in Abuja.
According to the United Nations Children Fund, malnutrition is a direct or underlying cause of 45 per cent of all deaths of under-five children, and Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children in the world, with a national prevalence rate of 37 per cent of children under-five.
These interventions included cash, books, bags, clothing and eight wheelchairs.
This followed the fresh circulation of an old statement by the Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu.
“As 2021 approaches, UNICEF is deeply concerned for the health and well-being of 10.4 million children projected to suffer from acute malnutrition next year in those countries,” the statement said, citing the affected countries as Republic of the Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Sudan, South Sudan and Yemen.
The award, given by “Peace and Sport”, the Monaco-based international organisation, recognises an athlete that has led a significant and sustainable sport initiative towards peaceful change.
More than 300 children are reported to be still missing, with many feared abducted, after gunmen stormed the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, late Friday evening.
The call was contained in a statement issued by UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Marie-Pierre Poirier, and made available to newsmen in Katsina.
UNICEF’s Communication Specialist, Geoffrey Njoku, made the announcement in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
Tallen made the call on Tuesday in Abuja during an interaction with children in commemoration of the 16 days activism to end Gender Based Violence.
UNICEF Global Chief of Education, Robert Jenkins, said in a statement that 320 million children were locked out of school at the start of December.