The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar the 3rd, says “We cannot educate our children by leaving them begging round streets of cities and towns”. The Sultan made the assertion at the inauguration of the Zamfara State Almajiri Integrated Qur’anic Education Centre, Gummi held in Gummi on Sunday. “I am not a politician but I’m here because of the importance …

Nigerian Army says troops of the 7 Division have eliminated five Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, and JAS terrorists and rescued 78 victims comprising 35 women and 43 children. A statement by Army Headquarters, yesterday, said the troops cleared six villages where terrorists hibernated with their hostages including Ngurusoye, Sabon Gari, Mairamri 1 and 2, Bula Dalo, and …

The International Labour Organisation (ILO), Save the Children and United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF), have said 1.4 billion children globally, aged under 16, lack social protection. They are therefore vulnerable to disease, poor nutrition and poverty, according to new data released Wednesday by the three bodies. According to the data, in low-income countries fewer than 1-in-10 children have access …

About 285,000 children orphaned by the Boko Haram insurgency and children of the vulnerable have been taught basic literacy and numeracy under UNICEF’s Teaching at the Right Level initiative in Borno State over the last three years. The initiative was funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office of the British government. UNICEF said the project, which is currently in its …

A now-trending video capturing the moment North Korea’s President, Kim Jong-un, broke down in tears as he pleaded with mothers to give birth to more children has emerged online. The video captured during a National Mothers’ Meeting in Pyongyang on Sunday, saw Kim Jong-un burst addressing thousands of North Korean mothers, pleading with them to have more babies to tackle …

United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) under its Rapid Response Mechanism in collaboration with UN Central Emergency Response Fund and European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) have embarked on the treatment of 14,000 malnourished children in Government Girls Arabic Secondary School (GGASS) in Mafa local government area of Borno State. The GGASS has a unique population of people …

The Lagos State Government says 213 children have been listed to benefit from its Free Limb Deformity Corrective Surgery and Rehabilitation Programme, an intervention targeted at the treatment and rehabilitation of children with lower limb deformities. The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr. Olusegun Ogboye said 60 out of that number had already been operated upon. He disclosed …

Three out of every four pupils in Nigerian primary schools are poor in literacy and numeracy, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) assessment. At the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy seminar in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Wednesday, the global agency’s Chief of Education in Nigeria, Saadhna Panday-Soobrayan said: “Nigeria has a severe learning crisis with three out of four children …

Two children, Gbolahan and Olayinka Atolagbe have been killed when a fence of a neighbouring building collapsed on their house in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the incident occurred during a downpour on Saturday on Alao Street, Isawo, in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of the state. The bodies of the two children ywere recovered …

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), on Monday, said it rescued seven motherless children in a domestic fire that engulfed an orphanage on Sunday afternoon in the Aguda area of the state. In a statement by its Public Affairs Unit Head, Mr. Nosa Okunbor, the agency said that seven male children, aged between one and seven, were rescued by …