Tag: Children
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UNAIDS affirms Nigeria as country with highest number of HIV/AIDS children in the world
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has disclosed that Nigeria is the highest producer of HIV positive children globally.
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Why I am terrified of raising kids –Moyo Lawal
Popular actress, Moyo Lawal, has she is terrified of raising kids because she considers it as hard work. The curvy actress said this via her verified Instagram page on Saturday, as she cleared a misunderstanding about her, which went viral days ago. TheNewsGuru recalls that fans had accused her of looking down on single mothers…
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Nigerian artisan posing as medical doctor arraigned in Dublin for performing home circumcisions on children
Nigerian man, Phillip Ogbewe, has been accused of endangering the lives of children in Ireland by performing home circumcisions on them while posing as a doctor. The Nigerian allegedly created a risk of death or serious harm to seven boys between the ages of seven months and five years in procedures in Dublin and other…
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International Girl-Child Day: 44% of girls marry before 18 years – Report
Save the Children’s Global Girlhood Report on Monday revealed that an estimated 44 percent of girls in Nigeria get married before their 18th birthday. The report was given to newsmen by an NGO, Save the Children Nigeria, as part of the activities to commemorate the 2021 International Day of the Girl Child in Abuja. It…
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Over 300,000 children killed in Boko Haram war – UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that more than 300,000 children lost their lives in the last 12 years because of the insurgency ravaging the North East region. In its latest statistics, UNICEF disclosed that over one million people have been displaced within the period under review. The agency further divulged that no…
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Nigeria has world’s highest number of children threatened by Malnutrition – UNICEF
The United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide, UNICEF, has ranked Nigeria as the country with the highest burden of malnutrition in Africa and the second highest in the world. The agency in a report that analyzed 91 countries, including Nigeria, disclosed that one out of every three children…
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I cannot destroy medical profession; my children, nephews are doctors – Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has said he has close family members who are into the medical profession and cannot work for its destruction.
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Children must be taught balance view of obedience to checkmate child sexual abuse – Ozioma Onyenweaku
Ozioma Onyenweaku Today, I have decided to write about obedience as it affects child sexual abuse. Why do some fathers, uncles and close relations succeed in sexually abusing their minors? They dangle ‘Obedience’ as a strategy, and the overly obedient child succumbs to the abuse. They are told to keep the abuse a secret, and…
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Five children playing with disused grenade killed in Borno
Five children were reportedly killed when a disused grenade they were playing with exploded outside Ngala, a Borno community near the border with Cameroon. “The five children picked up the explosive while herding in a field outside the town and it exploded in their hands as they were playing with it,” anti-jihadist militiaman Umar Kachalla…