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UNICEF Excited Over Rescue Of 50 Children In Ondo

UNICEF Frowns At Ethiopian Air Strike That Hit Kindergarten

August 27, 2022 6:52 pm

The UN children’s agency UNICEF has categorically condemned the latest Ethiopian air strike that had reportedly “hit a kindergarten” in the rebel-held Tigray region, thereby killing at least four people including two children in the school.

The Ethiopian government had also openly denied the fact that they had targeted some of the civilian areas in Friday’s air raid and accused the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) of staging deaths.

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“UNICEF strongly condemns the air strike … (that) hit a kindergarten, killing several children, and injuring others,” the agency’s …

UNICEF Excited Over Rescue Of 50 Children In Ondo

Ondo: UNICEF Slams Warning Against Violence On Children

July 4, 2022 3:52 pm

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has given some commendation to the Federal Government of Nigeria and some other security agents over the rescue of abducted children in Ondo State.

Africa Daily News, New York has also reported that some unidentified children and some adults had been rescued from a church where they were waiting for rapture.

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A statement signed by UNICEF Communication Specialist, Geofery Njoku noted that children must never be held against their will under any circumstance. It condemned the violence against children, warning that a society …

Over 1.2M Children Yet To Be Immunised In Nigeria - UNICEF

Over 1.2M Children Yet To Be Immunised In Nigeria – UNICEF

April 15, 2021 1:27 am
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that no fewer than 1.2 million children are yet to be immunized in Nigeria against deadly life-threatening diseases. 

The figure accounts for about six percent of 20 million children globally who are yet to be vaccinated.
Mrs. Folashade Adebayo, UNICEF’s Communication Officer, made the disclosure in Yola on Wednesday, at an ongoing ‘Media Dialogue On Routine Immunisation, Post Polio Certification, and COVID-19 Vaccination’.

The meeting was organised by The Child Rights Information Bureau (CRIB) of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture in collaboration with the UNICEF.

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Africa: WHO, UNICEF Urge Safe School Reopening In Africa

Africa: WHO, UNICEF Urge Safe School Reopening In Africa

August 20, 2020 3:38 pm

The unprecedented and prolonged school closures aimed at keeping students safe from COVID-19 are harming them in other ways, World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF said today, urging governments in Africa to promote the safe reopening of schools while taking measures to limit the spread of the virus.

A WHO survey of 39 countries in sub-Saharan Africa found that schools are fully open in only six countries. They are closed in 14 countries and partially open (exam classes) in 19 others. Around a dozen countries are planning to resume classroom learning in September, which is the start of the academic …

UNICEF Decries Looming Hunger In Yemen

UNICEF Decries Looming Hunger In Yemen

June 26, 2020 6:34 am
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has decried a huge shortfall in humanitarian aid funding for Yemen.

UNICEF warned on Friday that millions of children in the war-torn country could starve before the year runs out.

It warned that unless 54.5 million dollars is received for health and nutrition services by the end of August, some 23,500 children with severe acute malnutrition will be at an increased risk of dying.

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“We cannot overstate the scale of this emergency as children – in what is already the world’s worst humanitarian

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Coronavirus Forcing Parents To Skip Kids’ Vaccinations

Coronavirus Forcing Parents To Skip Kids’ Vaccinations

March 27, 2020 1:31 pm

The novel coronavirus pandemic that has forced billions of people across the globe to stay home is making parents skip routine immunisations for their kids, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF warned Thursday.

The phenomenon is being aggravated by overburdened health services where medical workers are being diverted from giving vaccines to focus on the COVID-19 response.

Some governments might even have to postpone mass immunisation campaigns as a way of slowing the disease’s spread, UNICEF said.

The agency’s Executive Director Henrietta Fore said the requirement for people to stay home and observe social distancing was leading parents to …

Suspected Boko Haram Attacks Dapchi Town, Burns Houses

March 5, 2020 5:43 am

Report coming from Dapchi, the headquarters of Bursari Local Government Area of Yobe State revealed that Boko Haram attacked the town on Wednesday evening. According to Channels Television, the suspected Boko Haram members attacked the town which is 100 kilometers from Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.

Report from locals revealed that the attackers came to the town where Leah Sharibu and about 100 students of Government Girls Science Technical College were abducted in February 2018, through neighboring Jumbam village Channels Television has reported.

Some suspected Boko Haram members have attacked Dapchi town, the headquarters of Bursari Local Government Area of …

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UNICEF Begins Implementation Of Child-Friendly Initiative

February 21, 2020 4:50 am

The United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) says it has commenced a programme aimed at promoting the health and protection of the rights of children in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

UNICEF tagged the programme “Child-Friendly Communities Initiative (CFCI)”.

Mr Bhanu Pathak, the UNICEF Chief Field Officer, in charge of Bauchi, disclosed this on Wednesday while addressing participants at a one-day inception meeting in Bauchi.

Pathak explained that the objective of the programme is to implement different child-friendly programmes at the grassroot level which will include education, health, nutrition and protection of the child right.

He said the programme …

EU, UNICEF Treat 12,259 Pregnant Women, Children In Bauchi

December 27, 2019 4:34 am
The European Union (EU) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have treated 12,259 pregnant women and children below five years of age in Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State in 15 months.

EU/UNICEF Team Leader on Hard To Reach (HTR) areas in the council, Mrs Adebisi Ibinola, disclosed this, yesterday, in Jabbal settlements in Bidir. She said the treatment lasted between October 2018 and December 2019. Ibinola listed Bidir, Madara and Magunshi wards as areas covered by the team within the period under review.She said those treated were in 16 settlements in the hinterland and that suffered from  …

UNICEF To Improve Literacy Of Nigerian Children

December 6, 2019 1:19 pm

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Friday said it would help improve literacy level among Nigerian children in rural areas through sensitisation and advocacy.

The UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Mr Peter Hawkins, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the importance of literacy and education would be better understood through advocacy.

Hawkins said that for those in the rural areas to understand that they could be liberated from poverty through education, it had to be through advocacy and sensitisation.

According to him, those in the rural areas and local communities are often neglected in the areas …

UNICEF: 23m Girls Married As Children In Nigeria

November 10, 2019 4:54 am

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday disclosed that Nigeria had the second largest number of child-brides in the world, noting that at least over 23 million girls had been married as children.

• Says three of five girls suffer violence before 18 ·• Gov’s wife claims she married at 16 as a stark illiterate

UNICEF, a leading advocate for children in the world, also revealed that three out of five children suffered one or more forms of violence before reaching 18 with over 70 percent experiencing multiple incidents of violence.

Corroborating UNICEF’s statistics on child marriage, Aishatu Mohammed, wife …

Invest More In Child Nutrition, UNICEF To Policy Makers

November 8, 2019 1:28 pm

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has called for behavioural change among policy makers and families across  South-South and South East zones in order to win the fight against malnutrition. 

Rivers Field Officer for UNICEF, Dr. Guy Yogo, made the call in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, yesterday,  at a  workshop on nutrition.

Yogo lamented that Nigeria was still battling the issue of stunted children, saying, “fighting malnutrition calls for a holistic approach from individuals, families and government.

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“There is a lot of misconception about malnutrition and or undernutrition.We have spoken about the rate of …

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