An additional 950 Nigerian children could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts routine services and threatens...
Barcelona captain and football star, Lionel Messi has shown his appreciation and gratitude to health workers fighting the Coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the world. The...
Lassa fever has killed 16 persons, including two doctors, in Bauchi State, the National Centre for Disease Control [NCDC] has said. Dr. Suleiman Lawal, the NCDC’s...
Sokoto State Government has utilized N400 million counterpart funding on routine immunization against poliomyelitis activities in 597 health centers across the state. Gov. Aminu Tambuwal stated...
Ogun state government on Wednesday raised the alarm that approximately three million people in the state are at the risk of contracting Neglected Tropical Diseases. The...
Some heads of public health facilities in Kebbi, say the services being provided by Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs) is encouraging pregnant women to deliver their babies...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control [NCDC] has disclosed that 29 deaths and 195 confirmed cases of Lassa fever have been reported in 11 states. The...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the Adamawa State Universal Basic Education Board (ADSUBEB) has begun mass enrollment of out-of-school children in the...
Data from a global birth registration platform, RapidSMS, has shown that no fewer than 1,436,986 (31 per cent) of under-five children in Lagos are not registered...
Nigeria loses an average of N1.4 trillion annually due to deaths and disability resulting from acts of Violence Against Children (VAC), the United Nations Children’s Fund...
UNICEF has launched a campaign to draw awareness to children’s rights by all of Nigerian society. The campaign tagged: ”For every child, every right’’, is to...
A UNICEF certified Open Defecation Free (ODF) community in Kano State, Yammawar Kafawa, has made open defecation a crime punishable by monetary fines on any member...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said among low-and-middle-income countries, Nigeria has the highest number of children, at nearly 4 million, under age one who...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said 67 percent of schools in eight northern states in Nigeria have no female teacher. UNICEF disclosed this in...
The UN Children’s Fund has trained 25 women in the production of reusable sanitary pads to improve women and girls’ health in Malumfashi Local Council in...