Tag: UNICEF
Children who lost parents to Ebola shunned by families – UNICEF
Thousands of children who have lost parents to the west African Ebola epidemic risk are being shunned by frightened and…
Ebola: UNICEF makes case for Liberia, Sierra-Leone, others
Mrs Jane Giogh, United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) representative in Nigeria, has appealed to countries with adequate human resources…
National Ebola Centre commends FG for control
Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Incident Manager, National Ebola Emergency Operation Centre (EEOC), said on Monday that Federal Government’s fight against…
One in 10 girls sexually abused – Unicef
A United Nations reports says about 120 million girls around the world which is slightly over one in 10 girls…
Scoring Winning Goal Through Breastfeeding
By Bilikis Bakare Breastfeeding in practice and application is viewed as a human right issue by several international organisations including…
Quarter of world population will be African by 2050 – UNICEF
A quarter of the world’s population will be African within 35 years, the UN children’s agency said on Tuesday, as…
40 Yazidi Children Reported Dead After Iraq Attack —UN
Forty children from northern Iraq’s Yazidi minority are reported to have died as a result of a jihadist attack on…
UN Envoy Vows To Rebuild Chibok Schools
UN education envoy Gordon Brown on Tuesday pledged that a school from where more than 200 girls were kidnapped by…
Securing The Nigerian Child
By Bilkis Bakare The Nigerian child, if lucky to be alive, has travelled the narrow path of neglect in many…
UNICEF: 200,000 Kids May Starve To Death In Somalia
The United Nation’s children’s agency said Tuesday that 200,000 children may die of starvation this year in war-ravaged Somalia if…
Children’s Day: UNICEF calls for unity, protection of Nigerian children
UNICEF has called for collective effort from stakeholders to protect the rights of children. The call was contained in a…
Girl child education: Niger pays N1bn counterpart fund
Niger state has paid N1 billion in counterpart fund to the UNICEF-assisted Girl Child Education Programme. The Commissioner for Education,…
Escape To Europe: Human Security Angle
By Femi G. Oguntoyinbo Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, seems to be the centre of world attention when it comes to…
Polio: Nigeria 2nd Largest Country With Unimmunised Kids
Eromosele Ebhomele Nigeria accounts for 3.8 million of the estimated 22.6 million unimmunised children against polio living in different countries…
Accessing Safe Water In Nigeria
By Musbau Rasak British politician and novelist, Edwina Currie, once said that, instead of drinking Coca Colas, turn on the…