The United Nations Children’s Fund and Ogun State House of Assembly, on Thursday, signed a certificate of commitment to reducing out-of-school children in the state. The certificate of commitment was signed when the UNICEF Chief of Lagos Field Office, Mrs Celine Lafoucriere, and her team paid an advocacy visit to the state legislators on the reduction of out-of-school children in …

Kaduna State Government on Friday signed a Contribution Agreement between UNICEF and its Reaching Out-of-School Children Project with the aim of reintegrating 200,000 out-of-school children back to the classroom. Speaking at the signing ceremony, the State Deputy Governor, Dr. Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe, who represented Governor Uba Sani, said, the Reaching Out-of-School Children Project is designed to address the high number …

Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu, has applauded the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and IHS Towers, in collaboration with the government of Canada, for donating an oxygen plant to the Cross River State government, situated at the General Hospital, Calabar. Commissioning the project, the governor, represented by his deputy, Hon Peter Odey, expressed confidence that the Pressure …

Following the outbreak of Cholera in Lagos, the state government has activated its Public Health Emergency Operations Centre at Mainland Hospital, Yaba. This is as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) urged the Lagos State Government to urgently provide high-standard water and sanitation facilities to communities to curb the disease. According to a Sunday statement on the government’s website, PHEOC …

The Plateau State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to support Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) intervention in the state. The chief of field office, UNICEF Nigeria, Bauchi Field Office, Dr. Tushar Rane, in his remarks during the signing of the memorandum, commended the state’s contribution of $200,000. He added …

Around 2007, alongside my wife, we organised an event dubbed ‘Angel of Hope Christmas Children Concert’ where the privileged from all strata of life could attend with their children (or young siblings). We encouraged each child to bring a gift of his or her own choice… to give willingly and happily to someone less fortunate. We basically invited hundreds of …

The figures are staggering. Nigeria shamelessly but comfortably leads the world in the number of out-of-school children; just as in the congregation of the poorest on earth. No less than 20 million of our children, the entire population of Chile, and twice the population of Sweden, are not in school. It speaks volumes of what the future holds for our …

The Gombe State Government has lauded the intervention of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in tackling the out-of-school children menace in the state. The Commissioner for Education, Dr Aishatu Maigari stated this in an interview with journalists at a two-day workshop organised by State Universal Basic Education with support from UNICEF Bauchi Field Office on policy dialogue with relevant …

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), has issued a warning to women against delivering babies at home in order to enhance their chances of survival during and after childbirth. UNICEF Health Officer, Oluseyi Olosunde, Wednesday, at a Media Dialogue in Gombe, emphasized that homes lack necessary facilities to address complications during labour. Providing insights on the statistics of home births, …

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 …