Thirteen-year old Elizabeth Ogunsanya is not happy with the temporary closure of schools in Lagos, Nigeria. The closure is meant to prevent the spread of the...
Boosting efforts to fight pneumonia could avert over 2 million child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases in Nigeria, new analysis has found. The modelling...
No fewer than 26,039 babies, representing seven percent of global new babies, will be born in Nigeria on January 1st, 2020, the New Year Day, according...
Oyo State government has assured that advocacy and enlightenment programs of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) would receive its support to further educate...
Leaders from Nigeria’s private sector and entertainment industry on Thursday joined Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka for a reading of his poem A Child Before a...
More than 29 million babies were born into conflict-affected areas in 2018, UNICEF said today. Armed violence across countries including Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and...
More women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released yesterday by United Nations groups led...
The European Union is allocating an additional €300 000 (N102m) in humanitarian aid to provide life-saving treatment to undernourished children in Nigeria’s northwestern states of Sokoto...
Nigeria has introduced the Meningitis A Conjugate Vaccine into the routine Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) schedule. Speaking during the flag-off ceremony at the Area 2...
An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, UNICEF said today in its first ever in-depth analysis of child grooms....