Gender Equality, an Obligation of Global Community – UNFPA
By Alex Uangbaoje United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has said that the obligation of advancing gender equality in the new agenda for sustainable development is...
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First Bank, Launches Loan Scheme for Women
The Oyo State Government and First Bank Nigeria Limited on Tuesday launched a gender-focused flexible loan scheme specially designed to empower women entrepreneurs in the...
Report: Famine-hit South Sudanese Eat Weeds, Water Lilies to Survive
(Reuters/NAN), Abigael Joshua, Thonyor (South Sudan) Thousands of South Sudanese families caught up in famine eat weeds and water lilies to survive, according to George Fominyen, Spokesperson...
Students force lecturer to mop floor, wash toilet
A lecturer in the English Department, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State, Isiaq Yusuf, popularly called I.G. Yusuf, has become an object of ridicule after...
”Mama ACCIF Turned Our Tears to Joy” IDPs Share Testimonies of Their Encounter With TYDF,ACCIF
By Alex Uangbaoje, Abuja Mama ACCIF, as she is fondly called by numerous Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in both New Kuchingoro and Pegi-Kuje in the...
Why I specialize in sucking private parts of children – 83-year-old man confesses
An 83-year-old man, Agaba Ada has confessed to defiling minors in Benue State. Ada, who hails from Ohimini Local Government Area of the state was...
UNICEF, Media, 3 States to Sign Agreement on Acton Plan For Children
By Alex Uangbaoje, Sokoto Stakeholders at the just concluded ‘Media Executives, Director Programme and Producers on Facts for Life Dissemination’ workshop in Sokoto, on Wednesday...
The Precarious State of The Almajiri in Nigeria
By Buhari Danboyi, Kaduna The cases of rape in Nigeria is on the increase, hardly a day passed by without news of such victims. Recently,...
Child Survival: UNICEF Suggests the Use of “Facts for Life Document” for Media Advocacy
By Alex Uangbaoje, Sokoto United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has suggested that the best way to design programmes and media messages met for the purposes...
UNICEF Urges Media to Expand Coverage to Rural Communities
By Alex Uangbaoje, Sokoto United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has urged the media to gear up it’s social mobilisation responsibility and information dissemination to cover...