Tag: UNICEF
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Nigeria ranked 11th highest on newborn deaths – UNICEF Report
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has ranked Nigeria 11th position on newborn deaths globally. This is according to a new report on “Newborn Mortality’’ released by UNICEF. According to the report, eight of the 10 most dangerous places to be born are sub-Saharan Africa, where pregnant women are much less likely to…
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Boko Haram destroyed 1,400 schools destroyed in Borno – UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said 1,400 schools have been damaged or destroyed in Borno as a result of years of Boko Haram insurgency in the state. UNICEF stated this in its 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan for Northeast – Adamawa, Borno and Yobe – adding, less than 400 health facilities remained functional across the state.…
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20,210 babies born in Nigeria on January 1 – UNICEF
Nigeria would have approximately 20,210 babies born into the country on New Year day, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said. This represents the third largest population of newborns in the world on January 1, 2018. UNICEF also said nearly 386,000 babies would be born worldwide on New Year day. The agency reported that Kiribati’s Christmas…
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UNICEF wants digital-safe Internet for children
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for a safe digital world for children while canvassing for the need to increase online access to benefit the most disadvantaged ones. The United Nations (UN) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries, said 1…
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Over 270,000 Nigerian children living with HIV – UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said that no fewer than 270,000 estimated children aged 0 to 14 years were living with HIV in Nigeria in 2016. The figure represented the lion share of half of the 540,000 total infected children in West and Central Africa over the same year. Nigeria also recorded 37,000 new…
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Nigeria accounts for 20 percent of births in Africa– UNICEF
Nigeria currently accounts for 20 percent of all the births in Africa, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported. UNICEF, in a report: ‘Generation 2030 Africa 2.0: Prioritising investments in children to reap the demographic dividend’, also said one in every 13 births globally would take place in Nigeria by 2050. UNICEF said special attention…
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Boko Haram: Over 3m children need emergency education support in North East – UNICEF
The United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) on Friday says an estimated three million children need emergency education support occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East. UNICEF’s Deputy Director, Justin Forsyth, told newsmen in Maiduguri that urgent interventions were necessary to address the situation. Forsyth said that over 57 percent of basic…
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Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan may not meet 2020 education target – UNICEF
Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan may not meet the 2020 target of education for children of school age unless a collective involvement of stakeholders with political will is encouraged, the United Nations International Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has said. The UN agency said: “The number of Out of School Children (OOSC) in Nigeria constitutes 20 per…
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‘Many innocent Nigerian children languishing in Lagos, other state prisons — UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)’s Child Justice Consultant, Dr Wilfred Mamah, on Thursday said that there were many Nigerian children currently languishing in different prisons across the country. Mamah disclosed this in Lagos at a one-day Sensitisation Meeting on Diversion Community Rehabilitation Programme with media practitioners. The UNICEF’ Consultant also announced the inauguration of…
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Access Bank Group/UNICEF initiative: 10 years commitment to Africa
The annual event is part of its continued support of UNICEF and the climax to the high-profile Access Bank/UNICEF Charity Shield Polo tournament, celebrating a decade of commitment to UNICEF projects and aimed at reaching out to and highlighting the plight of vulnerable children and orphans and internationally displaced persons. Access Bank Group, along with…