NGO Recommends Socio-behavioural Change to End Malnutrition
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna Save the Children International (SCI), an NGO, has recommended social and behavioural change as key to ending malnutrition in Kaduna State....
Category: Nutrition
Nutrition Stakeholders finalise Infant, Young Child Feeding Communication Strategy for Kaduna State
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna Nutrition Stakeholders in Kaduna State on Tuesday began a three-day meeting to finalise Social and Behavioural Change Communication Strategy (SBCC) for...
33,180 Malnourished Children to Benefit from Scale Up of Cmam Programmes by KDSG, UNICEF
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna The Kaduna State Government says it will scale up its Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) to 10 additional Local Government...
Access to Water, Hygiene, Sanitation: 470,000 IDPs in Borno Benefits from UNICEF, CIDAR Facilities
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna As part of efforts to continue to improve the hygiene and sanitation of people displaced by insurgency in the North Eastern...
Children’s Day: Borno Stakeholders Lauds Unicef’s Interventions in North East
Stakeholders in Borno on Sunday commended various interventions of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) that continues to strive to secure children and women affected by insurgency. The Stakeholders...
UNICEF, CIFF to Treat 279,542 Malnourished Children in Kaduna
By ALEX UANGBAOJE, Kaduna The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Children Investment Foundation Fund (CIFF) on Monday pledged to support Kaduna State Government to...
UNICEF Targets 10 Kano LGAs for 2018 Intervention Programmes
Alex Uangbaoje, Kano The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said it has selected 10 local government areas in Kano state for the implementation of its...
756,000 Under-five Children Dies Annually in Nigeria – Official
Agency Report The federal government says Nigeria records about 756,000 under five deaths annually. Osarenoma Uwaifo, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, disclosed this...
Hungry IDPs Protest Food Shortage in Adamawa
Agency Report Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Fufore and Malkohi camps in Adamawa staged peaceful protests over lack of food in their camps....
6.3m People Face Food Crisis in S/Sudan – UN
UN agencies have raised the alarm of food crisis in South Sudan, projecting that about 6.3 million people are facing food insecurity one year after...