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UNICEF, Borno to partner United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Borno State government have initiated a partnership to protect education from Boko Haram attacks. Aside educational infrastructure that had been destroyed, activities of the terrorists also claimed over 32,000 lives and property worth N3.52 trillion in Borno, Adamawa andYobe states. …

By Ahmed Ahmed UNICEF Nigeria and water aid Nigeria had urged Bauchi Government to increase investment and focus on the provision of water facilities in their policies and frameworks. Mr Bhanu Pathak chief of field office Bauchi and Dr Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye Wateraid Country Director represented By Adebayo Also Technical lead …

The United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lamented over the rise in Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) threat in North East region. The UNICEF Nutrition Specialist, Abigail Nyukuri, at the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), made the lamentation at a media dialogue in Maiduguri, on Thursday. Nyukuri stressed …

By Auwal Umar UNICEF, Child Protection Specialist, Sharon Oladiji, has said that no fewer than 19 million children are unregistered during and after birth in Nigeria. Sharon, disclosed this in Kano at a two-day media dialogue organised by UNICEF for stakeholders, media and health personnel across the 19 northern states. …

By Suleiman Sani, Jalingo It has been observed that increasing breastfeeding would prevent eight hundred and twenty-three (823,000) annual deaths in children under five and twenty thousand (20,000) annual deaths from breast cancer. This was shown in a recent study carried out by UNICEF where it also found that women …