The United Nations Children and Education Fund Country Representative in Nigeria, Christiane Mundaute has said that more than 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone Female Genital Mutilation. Mundaute said Nigeria accounts for 10 percent of this figure which is estimated at 19.9 million. Speaking in Ilorin, Kwara state on Tuesday, at a symposium held to mark the International …

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 regional food security analysis by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and World Food Programme (WFP) have said food insecurity and malnutrition reached new highs in West and Central Africa as funding to address acute needs dwindles. The report released yesterday in Dakar said despite considerable efforts by governments and partners, food …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that 75.1 per cent of women in Bauchi State marry before attaining the age of 18, saying that the state led in both North East and North West regions. The Officer-in-Charge of UNICEF’s Bauchi Field Office, Adams Clement, while speaking, yesterday, during the closing of the 16-day-activism against gender-based violence (GBV) organised …

UNICEF has announced that 48 million Nigerians, representing 23 per cent of the country’s population, still defecate in open space. Out of this number, the North-West geopolitical zone has 11 per cent; North-East, 17 per cent; North-Central, 47 per cent; South-West, 24 per cent; South-South, 23 per cent; and South-East, 23 per cent. The global agency’s North-East Water, Sanitation, and …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has stated that the significant prevalence of open defecation results in substantial socio-economic losses for the country. According to the UN agency, about 48 million people still defecate in the open – mostly in the rural areas. Clement Adams, Officer-in-Charge/Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Nigeria Bauchi Field Office, disclosed this at the Media Dialogue …

The United Nations Children Fund, on Monday, lamented the prevailing increase in the number of adolescent children becoming mothers before the age of 18 years. It, therefore, called for immediate and comprehensive intervention by the governments at all levels, noting that it had “committed $1 billion investment in Nigeria over the next five years”. The Chief of Health at UNICEF …

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has pleaded with parents and guardians in Bauchi State to allow their wards to receive a second term of polio vaccine. A representative of UNICEF, Haladu Sabo, made the appeal yesterday at the flag-off of the Second Term Polio Campaign in Bauchi. He urged parents to ensure that all the children in their care received …

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 …

Amid the most severe diphtheria outbreak in recent global history, the United Nations Children’s Fund Nigeria (UNICEF) is sounding the alarm about the urgent need for widespread vaccination. The outbreak has so far resulted in 11,587 suspected cases, 7,202 cases across 105 local government areas in 17 states and the Federal Capital Territory, mostly among children. A total of 453 …