The Rotary International has donated $5,732,360 to continue the fight against polio in Nigeria.
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The United Nations Children’s Fund has identified high prevalence of gender-based violence in schools in Northern Nigeria as a contributing factor to poor access to education by female children.
The United Nations Children Fund on Tuesday solicited media support on accurate and informed report on preventable child death in Nigeria.
The economic impact of the violence against children in Nigeria is estimated at about $6.1 billion, which is equivalent to about 1.07 per cent of the country’s GDP.
The United Nations Children’s Fund says Nigeria has the second largest number of stunted children in the world, with over 11 million children under the age of five affected.
In 2017, around 67,000 children (aged 0–9 years) and 69,000 adolescents (aged 10–19 years) became newly infected with HIV.
The United Nations Children’s Fund has estimated that 25,685 babies would be born in Nigeria on New Year Day.
Dr. Olasunbo Odebode, Representative of UNICEF in charge of Female Genital Mutilation in Nigeria, disclosed this on Thursday in Ibadan.
Falana’s position was contained in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday morning.
In a statement, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, said that the Military premised its rethink on intervention by stakeholders and well-meaning Nigerians.
The Nigerian Military on Friday barred staff of the United Nations Children’s Education Fund from the North East, where the Boko Haram insurgency is being battled.
Leila Pakkala, UNICEF Regional Director in Eastern and Southern Africa, said this in a statement issued in Juba.
The medical expert said the death of every single child is a huge disaster not only to his family, but to the whole nation because of what the child could become in the future.
Edward Kallon, UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, said this at the ongoing UN Women Conference 2018 in Lagos.
UNICEF, in a report: ‘Children, HIV and AIDS: The World in 2030’, said current trends indicated AIDS-related deaths and new infections were slowing, but the downward trajectory was not happening fast enough.
UNICEF Chief of Field Office in the state, Dr. Zakari Adam, made the disclosure at the opening of a two-day End-of-Year Review Meeting and Work Plan for 2019 in Kaduna.
Dr. Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Abuja.
The United Nation Children’s Fund has lauded the Osun State Government for enacting the social protection policies of Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration into law.
The Kano State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Children’s Fund to support the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition programme in the state.
NAN reports that the UNICEF recently announced that out of 1.2 million school-age children in Bauchi State, 777,000 were out of school.