Tag: UNICEF

The Nigeria Population Commission (NPC), however, decried the poor registration of deaths in Gombe State

In October, WHO recommended its use for the prevention of malaria in children.

Mr Sani spoke when a delegation from the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF) paid him a courtesy visit at ...

Founder of Fight against Desert Encroachment (FADE), Newton Jibunoh, speaks on how Nigerians can adopt their traditional ways to mitigate ...

The document is titled Protecting maternal, newborn and child health from the impacts of climate change.

...it is a lot of progress for the Nigerian government to introduce the HPV vaccine into its routine immunisation schedule, ...

The statement noted that a five-day mass vaccination campaign in schools and communities will be carried out during the inaugural ...

The lawmakers said the last survey by UNICEF revealed that 18.5 million children were out of school in Nigeria and ...

The Global Forum, 11-12 October 2023, was organized by PMNCH – the world’s largest alliance for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ ...

The minister’s presentation of the communique at the end of the 23rd National Council on Women Affairs in Calabar, on ...

The children were handed over to officials of the Ministries of Women Affairs from the three states.

The education minister may have to mandate all agencies under his watch, including universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education, to ...

The number of unvaccinated children in Kano, Jigawa and Katsina accounts for about 40 per cent of the total unvaccinated ...

UNICEF said improved breastfeeding practices could save over 100,000 children’s lives each year.

Every year, WBD is celebrated in the first week of August to raise awareness about the importance of breastfeeding and ...

According to UNICEF, TaRL employs Words Formation (WoF) and Oral Additional Charts (OAC) for the children to write sentences, addition, ...

The global agencies reiterated the importance of breastfeeding as the ultimate child survival and development intervention in a child’s life.

Vesicovaginal fistula is “a serious medical disorder characterised by an abnormal opening between the vagina and the bladder or rectum, ...

50 per cent of the unvaccinated children in the three states are in Kano.

“The maternal mortality rate in the state is 281 per 100,000. This is the statistics from public health facilities; it ...

In Kaduna, the state government said it had dredged River Kaduna as part of measures to reduce triver's annual floodingver ...

The malaria vaccine had been administered to more than 1.6 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi since 2019 and ...

“This calls for an emergency action on our part to ensure these children are located and vaccinated to ensure they ...

Vaccination, the process of receiving a vaccine that provides immunity to a disease, is very important as under-five mortality rate ...

Buhari's eight-year reign as president has seen Nigeria struggle through numerous challenges, with inflation and unemployment at worse levels than ...