The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has identified emotional and practical support as primary measures fathers and grandmothers of newborns can adopt to ensure that infants are exclusively breastfed by their mothers for six months.

The United Nations’ Children’s Fund, UNICEF, on Friday warned lactating mothers against feeding their babies with water or any liquid substance other than breastmilk within the first six months of life.

By Rotimi Ojomoyela THE United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, yesterday, expressed concern over the 8-15% dropout rate among adolescents in primary and secondary schools across the Southwest region, which include Ekiti, Oyo, Lagos, Ondo, Osun, and Ogun states. UNICEF’s Education Specialist, Azuka Menkiti stated this after a 2-day regional stakeholders meeting on out-of-school children retention, […]

She warned that this shortfall could severely impact the education sector in both the state and the country if full retention and completion are not achieved.

According to them, 34 per cent of infants in Nigeria benefit from a healthy start in life, translating to hundreds of thousands of babies whose lives have been saved by breastfeeding.

United Nations International Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, has commenced a three -day training  of volunteers on Electronic Civil Vital Registration Statistics (ECVRS) for children between age zero to five years in Abia State.

The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has urged the Taraba State government to honour its co-financing obligation in the three-year pact signed with the humanitarian organization to strengthen healthcare delivery at the grassroots.

OFFICIALS of the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and South East leaders have concluded a meeting in Awka, Anambra State, during which the issue of social sector budgeting for the region took the center stage.

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has said that e-birth registration provides children in Nigeria with the right to a legal identity.

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said that the reduction in the zero-dose children burden in Taraba State to 4% was achieved through improved coverage of remote areas and the availability of vaccines in the most distant parts of the state.

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, on Tuesday announced that the Nigeria Learning Passport, NLP, has reached a remarkable milestone of one million subscribers, describing it as a milestone in educational access in the country.

 Following the outbreak of cholera in Lagos and some states, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for extensive measures to protect school children. The UN organisation also called for concerted efforts to prevent disruption in the academic calendar over the spread of the disease. The Chief of UNICEF Lagos Field Office, Celine Lafoucrier, […]

“In the last three months of 2023, grave violations against children in the central Sahel increased by more than 70 percent compared with the previous three months.”

“Unfortunately, this positions Nigeria with the challenge of having the largest number of out-of-school children globally.”

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned the recent abduction of students of Government Secondary School Kuriga, in Chikun LGA, Kaduna state.