The United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF), has said Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (2021) showed that there are currently about 10.2 million primary school children who are out of school in Nigeria. The Chief, UNICEF Field Office, Kano State, Rahama Farah, who stated this yesterday in Kano during a briefing to mark the 2025 edition of the ‘International Day of Education’, said: “There are currently about 10.2 million children at the primary level who are out-of-school in Nigeria; 16% of them are from Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states. Close to one…
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Abducted Nigerian UNICEF nurse escapes captivity 6 years after
A Nigerian nurse, Alice Loksha, who was kidnapped by terrorists, has escaped after six years in which she was forced into two marriages. Loksha, who had been a health worker for the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) in the North-East of Nigeria, was presented by the military to newsmen at a base in Maiduguri, on Friday. She was kidnapped on March 1, 2018, when the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist group staged a deadly raid on a camp housing 60,000 displaced people. Three UNICEF health workers and eight…
Read More‘69.2% of Kano children are multi-dimensionally poor’ UNICEF
The United Nations Childrens Funds (UNICEF), says 69.2% of children in Kano State are multi-dimensionally poor. A Social Policy Specialist with the UNICEF, Kano Field Office, Fatima Musa, disclosed this yesterday, in her presentation during a media dialogue in Zaria, Kaduna State. The media dialogue is on: ‘Childrens Advocacy Priorities for News and Programme Managers from Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa states’. Musa explained that 69.2% of children aged 0-17 years old were defined as multi-dimensionally poor, while 59.5% of children of 0-17 years were monetarily poor in Kano. The communication…
Read MoreSokoto: ‘Nutrition supplements stolen, replaced with stones’, UNICEF alleges
The United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF) has lamented that nutrition supplements meant for malnourished children in some communities in Sokoto State are being stolen and sold in the market. UNICEFs Chief of Field Office in charge of Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara states, Micheal Juma, expressed concerns over the theft of the items during the quarterly policymakers meeting on Wednesday in Sokoto. Juma, who was represented by Abraham Mahama, noted that the nutrition supplements were provided by donors and distributed to healthcare centers in different communities aimed at enhancing the lives…
Read MoreMalaria: WHO says Benin, Liberia, Sierra Leone roll out vaccine
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the Republic of Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone have launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West African nations. WHO said this in a statement as the world celebrates the 17th World Malaria Day with theme: Advancing health equity, gender equality and human rights,. The world health body said that the vaccine rollout, announced on World Malaria Day, seeks to further scale up vaccine deployment in the African region. Todays launch brings to eight the number of…
Read MoreSocial register: UNICEF integrates 20,800 Almajiri in Katsina
The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), has supported the validation and registration of 20,800 Almajiri children to the social register in Katsina State. Hajiya Rabi Mohammed, the Head of Operations, State Operation Coordination Unit (SOCU), disclosed this in Katsina on Wednesday at the quarterly Social Protection Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting. She further explained that the exercise was carried out in three local government areas for future interventions. According to her, no fewer than 5,882 Almajiri children were registered in Kafur LGA, in Mani LGA 8,318, while in Safana LGA…
Read MoreDiphtheria: UNICEF Nigeria raises alarm over unprecedented outbreak, advocates urgent vaccination
The United Nations Childrens Fund UNICEF Nigeria has raised an alarm about the urgent need for widespread vaccination against the unprecedented outbreak of diphtheria. The outbreak has so far resulted in over 11,500 suspected cases, more than 7,000 confirmed cases, and claimed the lives of 453 people, mostly children. In a statement issued Wednesday in Kaduna, UNICEF said most cases are children aged between 4 to 15 years who have not received even a single dose of the vital vaccine, laying bare the urgency of the vaccination situation in Nigeria.…
Read More1.6m children out-of-school in North-East UNICEF
The United Nations Childrens Fund, (UNICEF), has warned that 1.6 million children in the North-East region are not attending school. UNICEFs Chief of Field Office in Maiduguri, Borno State, Phuong Nguyen, revealed this on Wednesday, during a Foundation Literacy and Numeracy in the North-East seminar held in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. She said: “At least 1.6 million children are out of school in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States. Of those in school, 72% cannot read a simple text after grade 6. Without acquiring appropriate foundational and transferable skills, children…
Read More‘Three out of 4 Nigerian pupils unable to read, write’ – UNICEF
Three-quarter of pupils in Nigerian primary schools lack adequate literacy and numeracy, according to a UNICEF assessment report. The global agencys Chief of Education in Nigeria, Saadhna Panday-Soobrayan, disclosed this yesterday, at the opening of the seminar, which was held at the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy seminar in Maiduguri, Borno State. According to her, Nigeria has a severe learning crisis with three out of four children being unable to read or to solve a simple math problem. This not only hobbles childrens opportunity to learn higher order skills but is…
Read More63% Nigerians face abject poverty – UNICEF
The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over poverty level of ordinary Nigerians, lamenting that 63 percent of Nigerians faces deprivation and other forms of poverty in the country. Speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day policy and programmatic dialogue workshop on Nigerias poverty profile and social register Tuesday in Abuja, UNICEF Nigeria Representative, Cristian Munduate, said she had personally witnessed the menace of poverty across the country and its accompanying toll in several aspects of peoples lives, including in the area of education. From Lagos to…
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