…Says 100m girls at risk in next decade even before pandemic By Chioma Obinna As world marks the International Women’s Day today,  the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF on Monday warned that with 25 million child marriages averted in the last decade,  10 million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the decade. […]

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it will provide psychosocial support to the released Jangebe schoolgirls and their families. UNICEF Nigeria Representative, Peter Hawkins, stated this in a statement made available to journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday. Hawkins added that UNICEF would also work with the Zamfara State Ministry of Education on how to ensure the […]

By Joseph Erunke AS Nigeria expects to receive about four million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, the federal government, World Health Organisation, WHO, and United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, have said frontline healthcare workers would be the first beneficiaries. A statement jointly signed yesterday by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA, the World […]

The United Nations Children’s Fund has expressed delight at the news of the release of the 27 students of Government Science College in Kagara, Niger state, but said that it would be more exciting if the abducted students of Girls’ Secondary School Jangebe in Zamfara State are released faster and safer.

By Chioma Obinna The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, on Friday expressed worry over reports of an overnight attack at the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, north-west Nigeria, where an unconfirmed number of schoolgirls were kidnapped. In a Press Statement, UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, said: […]