SPECIAL REPORT: How UNICEF-AYP Programme Reshapes Our Lives – Beneficiaries
By Alex Uangbaoje Kaduna The Adolescents & Young People (AYP) intervention programme is one of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) supported programs that aims...
Category: Children/Women
Ekiti Government to Arrest Parents of Pupils Hawking During School Hours
The Ekiti Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, says the state will henceforth arrest parents of pupils found hawking during school hours. The governor, through his Chief...
UNICEF Urges Governments to Focus More Attention on Children of the Poor
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday urged government at all levels to pay more attention to children in poor communities in the implementation...
Curbing Violence Against Women and Children in 2019 Elections: CAMAC Partners Media
By Samuel Otitolaye, Kaduna A Kaduna-based non-governmental organisation, Center for Media Advocacy for Mother and Child (CAMAC) is partnering the media to see how women...
Quranic Centers in Niger State gets UNICEF, DFID N102.5m Grant
By Alex Uangbaoje, Minna 200 Integrated Quranic Centers (IQS) and 210 public primary schools in six Local Government Areas of Niger state, has received N102.5...
Investment on Child Nutrition in Northeast: What Nigeria Stands to Gain
#stopchildmalnutritionNigeria By Alex Uangbaoje Recently a report by Brookings Institution rated Nigeria as the poorest country globally, thereby becoming the poverty headquarters in the world,...
MNCH Week: Kaduna Witnesses Heavy Turnout of Women, Children
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna The second round of the 2018 biannual Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW) has witnessed massive turnout of women and...
Election Violence: NGO Host Journalists in Kaduna on Prevention
By Our Correspondent, Kaduna An NGO, Center for Media Advocacy for Mother and Child, otherwise known as CAMAC, will on Tuesday 15th January host journalists...
52-Years-old Civil Servant Defiles 11-year-old Boy in Kaduna
A 52-year old civil servant, Mohammed Lawal Ahmed is in court over his alleged defilement of 11-year-old boy, Abdullahi (not his real name). The suspected...
Nigeria to Expect 25,685 Babies on New Year Day –UNICEF
Agency Report The United Nations Children’s Fund says an estimated 25,685 babies will be born in Nigeria on New Year Day. According to a statement...