The Cross River Government is looking forward to achieving Open Defecation-Free (ODF) status in all the 18 Local Government Areas of the State by 2023. The Director-General of Rural, Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWATSSA), Mr Ita Ikpeme, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar. Ikpeme, […]
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Over 3.6 million Nigerians lack water, sanitation, hygiene, says UNICEF
UNICEF alerts on new trend of female genital mutilation
ENUGU- THE United Nations Children Fund, Unicef has revealed a new trend of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, which it said are mostly committed by grandmother who come to nurse their children babies.
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UNICEF, civil societies to rehabilitate 53 children in Calabar
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with Civil Societies and Cross River State government have taken 53 marginalised children off the streets of Calabar, with plans to unite them with their families and foster parents.
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Future of children in Northeast at risk — UNICEF
United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has raised the alarm that the future of children living in states affected by Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast region are at risk as the terrorists continue to commit grave violations against them and governments at various levels fail to hold perpetrators accountable.
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FG, UNICEF and AI should cooperate
WE find the war of nerves between the Federal Government and the Nigerian Army on the one hand, and the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF and global human rights group, Amnesty International, AI, on the other, very troubling and unnecessary.
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Malnutrition a threat to education in northeast, says nutrition expert
Statistics have revealed that malnutrition arising from Boko Haram insurgency has continued to threaten education in the northeast, especially, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
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Nigerian Army lifts suspension on activities of UNICEF in North East
UNICEF: Army lifts suspension
Nigerian Army has lifted the suspension on the activities of the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in northeast Nigeria, less than 24 hours it imposed one on the aid agency. “Suspension lifted,” Geoffrey Njoku, UNICEF Nigeria’s communication officer told The Guardian in an email. The agency was accused of sabotaging the Nigerian military’s war […]
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Boko Haram: Theatre Command lifts suspension on UNICEF activities
Few hours after the military suspended UNICEF, the UN aid agency from the North East over allegations of spying for Boko Haram terrorists, the Theater Command of Operation Lafiya Dole has liftef the suspension.
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