Tayo Fatinikun, Executive Director, Life Helpers Initiative, made this known at a two-day Media Dialogue on Girls for Girls Initiative in Gusau on Monday.
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Sule Mele, Executive Director of Borno State Primary Health Care Management Board, made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri.
Alabi made the disclosure on Friday in Jos during a school-based campaign to end violence against children which was organised by the UNICEF in collaboration with the Plateau Government.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the beneficiaries are drawn from four states: Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara.
A UNICEF Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Dr. Adeniyi Olaleye, highlighted the importance of data driven reporting and reeled out current statistics from the MICS5 2016-17
A UNICEF Communication Officer, Blessing Ejiofor, said this at a Media Dialogue on Child Nutrition in South West Nigeria, organised by UNICEF in collaboration with the Ogun State Ministry of Information and Strategy
Dr Niyi Olaleye, Officer in Charge of UNICEF, Akure, told newsmen shortly after Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State had signed the bill into law on Tuesday, that it was the first of its kind in the country.
Swadchet Sankey, UNICEF Education Specialist, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
Baba said the figure, based on the 2017 data of the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS also showed that about 160,000 people died as a result of AIDS-related illness in Nigeria in 2016.
The Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale, while unveiling the MICS5 reports in Abuja noted that such verifiable data is extremely important to the development outcome in Nigeria.
UNICEF’s Communication Specialist in Kaduna, Malam Rabiu Musa, disclosed this at the opening of a two-day workshop to enlighten traditional rulers on the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among adolescent and young persons in the state.
The UNICEF’s Country Representative, Mohamed Fall, made the assertion in Akure on Friday when he paid a courtesy visit to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State.
UNICEF, in a report: “Generation 2030 Africa 2.0: Prioritising investments in children to reap the demographic dividend,” also said one in every 13 births globally would take place in Nigeria by 2050
The group’s National Coordinator, Nature Obiakor, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that 20 volunteers, 60 Hygiene Education Teachers and 30 Community Health Education Workers have also been trained on hygiene promotion in the six area councils under the FCT
Malam Isa Gusau, the Special Adviser to Governor Kashim Shettima on Communication and Media Strategy, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Maiduguri
The UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Mohammed Fall, disclosed this at the National Early Childhood Development conference in Abuja, with the theme: “Investing early in Nigerian children.”
The Programmes Manager of Hard to Reach, Dr. Muhammad Khalilu, said most of the children in these communities were suffering from “severe malnutrition” and other child killer diseases, while the pregnant women there also had no access to antenatal facilities and drugs.
A UNICEF specialist, Moustapha Niang, said this while presenting an overview of the UNICEF supported Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme in Nigeria at the EU-UNICEF WASH media dialogue in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, recently.
Hokonya also urged the government of the two states to upgrade the WASH units in their local government areas into departments for effectiveness and efficiency.
This is four times as many child suicide bombers used in all of 2016, the UNICEF said