•Celine Lafoucriere with children Millions of Nigerian children are being denied safe education as schools increasingly become centres of fear amid abductions, worsening insecurity, overcrowded classrooms and poor learning conditions, UNICEF warned today, raising alarm over threats to their rights and development. Speaking at the 2026 Internat...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), today called on the Nigerian government to enact and enforce a national policy requiring public places, including all filling stations, to provide clean and accessible public toilets, as part of efforts to eliminate open defecation across the country. Nigeria remains among the countries struggling t...
•Nigerian children The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the federal government, has called on media organisations and practitioners to serve as Nigerian children’s voice and uphold child rights in the country. The Federal Ministry of Information and Orientation, stressed the vital role of the media in shaping publ...
•Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) With nearly 20 million Nigerian women and girls already subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – most before their sixth birthday – UNICEF has issued a strong warning that Nigeria risks a dangerous surge in the brutal and illegal practice. Raising the alarm yesterday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (U...
•Breastfeeding The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF ) says that only one out of every three babies is exclusively breastfed for up to six months in Nigeria. UNICEF’s Chief of Enugu Field Office, Mrs. Juliet Chiluwe, said this while addressing journalists in a virtual meeting in Owerri today. This was part of the activities marking [&hell...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concerns over the state of youngsters’ welfare in the North-East, noting that 72 per cent of pupils, who complete primary school in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States, cannot read basic text. Chief of UNICEF Maiduguri Field Office, Joseph Senesie, who disclosed this to reporters, described ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund has said Nigeria now stands as the country with the highest burden of malnourished children in Africa. The international agency disclosed this on its website today, adding that only two out of every 10 children affected currently have access to treatment. It said with an estimated two million children in [&he...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that improving the rate at which children are breastfed exclusively for the first six months can save the lives of 520,000 children in the next 10 years. The Chief Nutrition Officer of UNICEF, Enugu Field Office, Mrs. Ngozi Onuora, stated this in a goodwill message at a […]
•Gilles Fagninou The United Nations Children’s Fund has disclosed plans to reduce workforce and travel as part of measures to mitigate the effect of the cut of USAID funding by the Trump administration. The UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Gilles Fagninou, made the disclosure today during an assessment visit to some of [&h...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO), UNICEF and World Food Programme(WFP) said the economic hardship, climate change and violence in the Northeast region are projected to push 33.1million Nigerians into food insecurity in 2025. A statement issued by Chi Lael, Head of Communications and Media, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), N...
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