Sokoto—A Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, covering health, education, water, sanitation and hygiene worth N2.8 billion has been signed by Sokoto State Government and UNICEF.

Pregnant women in Imo State have been advised to patronize public hospitals to avail themselves the teachings of safe motherhood practices offered freely by medical experts.

An estimated 24,600 refugee children are “living in limbo” waiting to join their families in Western Europe, UNICEF said on Thursday in New York.

NIGERIAN children received 450 million out of a total of 2.5 billion doses of vaccines procured by UNICEF in 2016 to children in nearly 100 countries.

THE United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has advised journalists to avoid stigmatisation when reporting children based issues. The body also called on Journalists to adhere strictly to the principles of ethical guidelines while reporting on issues concerning children in order to safeguard and secure their future.

United Nations Children’s Funds, UNICEF and Katsina state government, through the primary health care development agency is strategizing towards attaining behavioural change in best health practices at the grassroots of the state.

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday that the number of children used in suicide attacks, by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, had surged to 27 in the first quarter of 2017.
Marie-Pierre Poirier, UNICEF’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa said this in a report she released to journalists on Maiduguri on Wednesday.

UNICEF has lauded the release of nearly 600 women, children and the elderly from Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State.

The United Nations Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, said yesterday that water shortages, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene practices and disease outbreaks were posing additional threat to severely malnourished children in North-East Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF,has urged media practitioners to protect the rights of children through ethical based reportage and in accordance with best global practices.

According to UNICEF, in Nigeria, 145 women die daily, as well as about 2,300 under-five year olds

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday commended parents in Borno for their massive turnout for anti-measles vaccination campaign in the state.

Following measles outbreak in Somalia, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners are supporting a swift delivery of 55,000 doses of measles vaccine to Kismayo in Somalia. Also being delivered is Vitamin A supplementation to boost the immunity of some 54,000 children under the age of 10 that are expected to be vaccinated. “Measles […]

No fewer than 772,224 children registered by National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) are living at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the northeast.

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has said that more than 1 million children have been forced out of school as a result of violence and attacks against civilian populations in north-eastern Nigeria and its neighboring countries.