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The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has committed approximately ₦480 million to support women and children in Zamfara State, Nigeria, in accessing free healthcare services. This announcement was …

UNICEF on Friday sounded the alarm on child cholera in DR Congo’s troubled North-Kivu province, estimating more than 8,000 under-fives had been infected this year. The eastern province has been …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said 51 new cases of Circulating Variant Polio Virus (cVPV2) have been detected in Nigeria from January to August 13 this year, with the …

The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children’s agency said, warning many more were at “grave risk”. …

The Federal government will digitise the civil registration and vital statistics process and is targeting the registration of 12.7 million under-five children in 2023, an official has said. Matthew Sunday, …

More than 400 people have been killed and over 3,500 others hurt in the fighting in Sudan, the World Health Organization said Friday. “Four hundred and thirteen people have died …

Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year high spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and high prices, United Nations’ …

The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers suffering from undernutrition has increased by 25 percent since 2020 in 12 countries at the epicenter of the world food crisis, the …

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has emphasised the importance of birth registration, saying it identifies a child as an entity, not just a statistic. The UNICEF Country Representative to Nigeria, …

The Bauchi State Government has inaugurated the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP), to strengthen learning process for pre schoolers in the state. The programme is being implemented in collaboration between the …