UNICEF begs states to save nine million children by accessing child nutrition fund
The United Nation Children’s Fund on Wednesday urged states in Nigeria to urgently provide their counterpart funding to access the Child Nutrition Fund to save about nine million children from malnutrition. “Without urgent action in 2024, UNICEF estimates that approximately nine million children under five years will suffer from moderate and acute malnutrition,” Prosper Dakurah, […]
Why Polio is spreading after Nigeria was declared free – UNICEF
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said polio has returned to Nigeria and is spreading to many states after the country was declared polio-free in 2020. It blamed the development on low vaccination rate especially in some northern states and the refusal of some parents to allow their children to be vaccinated. […]
Polio, malnutrition cases rising, says UNICEF
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday, July 3, raised the alarm over soaring polio and malnutrition cases among children, urging government and people to rise to the challenge. Although Nigeria was declared a polio-free country in 2020, UNICEF,an organ of United Nations (UN), warned that it has started rearing its ugly […]
UNICEF, DAME sign groundbreaking partnership to boost children’s rights advocacy
In a significant move to advance the rights and welfare of children in Nigeria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Nigerian Guild of Editors, and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This partnership aims to leverage media’s influential power to promote and protect children’s rights across […]