Children

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for the immediate release of all children detained during the recent public unrest in Iran, expressing deep concern that minors arrested in connection …

Around mid-November 2024, Abuja’s streets were eerily quiet, a stark contrast to the usual scene of Almajiri children begging for alms. This sudden change was attributed to a mop-up exercise …

More than a third of Ukraine’s children, 2,589,900, remain displaced as the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year. This includes more than 791,000 children inside Ukraine and nearly 1,798,900 …

Lukman Abdulmalik The Kano State Government has officially launched a historic Measles–Rubella Integrated Vaccination Campaign targeting more than 7.8 million children aged 9 months to 14 years across the state’s …

Momoh Umar Momoh, Benin The Irede Foundation has offered to provide free prosthetic limbs to 200 children with limb loss across the country. Mr Peter Onyekwuo, Lead Advocate of the …

The sleepy communities of Bolorunduro, Fagbo, Igushin, and Bagbe in Ondo East and the West Local Government had the largest cocoa-producing capacity in Ondo state. Due to the economic situation …

Muhammad Garba European Union ( EU) launched a project to support the addressing of the high rate of out-of-school children by enrolling 130,000 children back to school in Jigawa state. …

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has reaffirmed his commitment to providing free, quality education, urging parents and guardians to enroll their children in public schools. During the inauguration of …

Nineteen children trafficked from Kebbi State have been rescued from traffickers in Calabar, Cross River State. The children, whose ages range from 3 to 6 years, were reportedly being moved …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged state governments in northern Nigeria to invest more in children to check child poverty in the region. UNICEF’s social policy specialist in …