The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Tuesday, said that Kano state has recorded 5,800 suspected cases of Diphtheria from January to date.
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The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has identified a funding gap of $9.2 billion in the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector in Nigeria.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 1.5 million children in Pakistan are still in need of humanitarian aid a year after record floods in the country.
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and Sokoto State Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to get 132, 000 children and adolescent girls back to school.
Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Nigeria Bauchi Field Office Dr Tushar Rane has called on governments and stakeholders to encourage breastfeeding policies that will have paid maternity leave for six months and flexible return to work options for breastfeeding women workers.
The UNICEF has revealed that diphtheria has claimed the lives of 122 children in Nigeria as at July 2023.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Representative, Cristian Munduate has called on the Nigerian government at both National and Sub-National levels and, employers of labor to take decisive actions to ensure a supportive breastfeeding environment for all working mothers, including those in the formal and informal sectors.
In Sudan, about 435 children have been killed and 2,025 injured since violence broke out three months ago, according to a statement issued by the UN children’s agency UNICEF on Monday.
Report indicates that 1.5 million girls were enrolled in schools in six Northern states in the last 10 years under the Girls Education Project Phase III (GEP3).
The UN Children’s Fund on Friday urged the Nigerian Government to triple its current investment in sanitation and hygiene to enable it meet the Open Defecation Free (ODF) target by 2025.