This was the main thrust of a UNICEF media dialogue attended by journalists drawn from various media organizations across the country held in Kano between Tuesday and Wednesday on SBMC covering Sokoto, Niger, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano and Kebbi States.
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Muktar spoke on Tuesday in Kano at a Media Dialogue on School-based management committees organised by UNICEF.
Hawkins said this on Monday in Kano during a four-day workshop organised for Commissioners and Permanent Secretaries from the 19 Northern States.
The United Nations Children’s Fund says there is urgent need for increased spending on Child Protection Services as Nigeria loses N1.42 trillion to Violence Against Children annually.
The United Nation Children’s Fund says Nigeria loses over N1.4 trillion annually due to Violence Against Children.
The United Nations Children Education Fund and Ekiti government have set 2021 as the target date to end open defecation in the state.
The Federal Government and the United Nations Children Fund have said they will engage the media in the Clean-up Nigeria Campaign towards eradicating open defecation in the country.
The United Nations Children Fund says it is partnering with the Federal Government in tackling open defecation in the country.
No fewer than 242,214 girls have been enrolled into primary one in Katsina State following the successes recorded by the Girls Education Project 3 Enrollment Campaign at community levels under the UNICEF.
According to several reports, three children – two girls and a boy (ages unknown) – were used to detonate explosives that killed 30 people and injured 40 others at a community football viewing centre in Konduga in Borno State
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina state has condemned mothers that sent their girls to partake in street hawking and called on them to eschew such hazardous and dangerous attitude.
The United Nations Children Education Fund and Ekiti State Government have decried the increasing rate of Female Genital Mutilation practice in the state.
UNICEF’s new Country Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, made this known on Monday in a statement to commemorate the Children’s Day, observed annually on May 27.
The United Nations Children Fund has appealed to journalists in Nigeria to raise awareness on sanitation, particularly the benefit of using toilets.
The European Union and United Nation Children Fund have constructed 52 Ventilated Improved Pit toilets and 10 motorised boreholes in Plateau State to address challenges of Water Sanitation and Hygiene in the state.
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources says no fewer than 50 per cent of FCT residents defecate openly due to the challenge of non-availability of toilets in public places.
The United Nations Children’s Fund says an estimated 169 million children missed out on the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017 or 21.1 million children a year on average.
The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund on Wednesday said children are making 60 per cent of persons needing humanitarian assistance.
The births of nearly 230 million children under the age of five worldwide have never been officially recorded, says UNICEF.
The United Nations Children’s Fund says the number of children between the ages of zero and 17 years registered in Nigeria increased by 29 million.