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Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis Community water point in rural Nigeria highlighting WASH challenges”

Community water point in rural Nigeria highlighting WASH challenges”

Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis

Chukwu Obinna February 6, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – When Nigeria declared a state of emergency in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in...

Ogun, UNICEF Launch Ambulance Boat to Save Riverine Lives Ogun State and UNICEF officials commissioning an ambulance boat for riverine healthcare

Ogun State and UNICEF officials commissioning an ambulance boat for riverine healthcare

Ogun, UNICEF Launch Ambulance Boat to Save Riverine Lives

Korede Abdullah February 6, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – The Ogun State Government, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), commissions...

Bayelsa Wins $400,000 Health Award, Diri Orders Cabinet Checks Governor Douye Diri receiving Bayelsa’s $400,000 primary healthcare award

Bayelsa Wins $400,000 Health Award, Diri Orders Cabinet Checks

Korede Abdullah January 8, 2026

BAYELSA, Nigeria – Bayelsa State clinches a $400,000 international health award as Governor Douye Diri orders compulsory...

Ekiti Launches MICS-7 Survey to Strengthen Social Policy Planning Enumerators conducting MICS-7 household survey in Ekiti State

Ekiti Launches MICS-7 Survey to Strengthen Social Policy Planning

Korede Abdullah January 6, 2026

ADO-EKITI, Nigeria – The Ekiti State Government begins the seventh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS-7) to strengthen...

Stolen Classrooms, Stolen Futures: How Educating Girls Could Rewrite Northern Nigeria’s Destiny Abandoned classroom in Zamfara State symbolising Nigeria’s school safety crisis.

Abandoned classroom in Zamfara State symbolising Nigeria’s school safety crisis.

Stolen Classrooms, Stolen Futures: How Educating Girls Could Rewrite Northern Nigeria’s Destiny

Hussaini Ibrahim December 26, 2025

KANO, Nigeria – On a quiet morning in Tsafe, Zamfara State, the silence inside a once-bustling secondary...

Yobe Wins National Primary Healthcare Award, Bags $1.2m Yobe Governor, Mai Mala Buni

Yobe Wins National Primary Healthcare Award, Bags $1.2m

Hussaini Ibrahim December 13, 2025

Damaturu, Nigeria – Yobe State emerges as Nigeria’s 2025 National Champion in the Primary Health Care Leadership...

Cholera Outbreak Kills 16 Children at DRC Orphanage Bauchi Cholera report

Cholera Outbreak Kills 16 Children at DRC Orphanage

Oluwafunbi Bello December 8, 2025

KINSHASA, DRC – A severe cholera outbreak kills 16 children at a Kinshasa orphanage, highlighting the scale...

The Day the Pots Went Cold: Inside Nigeria’s School Feeding Breakdown After Years of Scandal and Silence Schoolchildren waiting in an empty feeding area after the suspension of Nigeria’s school feeding programme.

Schoolchildren waiting in an empty feeding area after the suspension of Nigeria’s school feeding programme.

The Day the Pots Went Cold: Inside Nigeria’s School Feeding Breakdown After Years of Scandal and Silence

Juliet Jacob December 5, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – When the lunch bell rang at Ansarudeen Elementary School in Osogbo on a warm...

US Donates $5m to UNICEF for Malnourished Children in Northwest Nigeria UNICEF representatives interacting with children at a community programme.

UNICEF representatives interacting with children at a community programme.

US Donates $5m to UNICEF for Malnourished Children in Northwest Nigeria

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius December 4, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The United States Department of State has provided $5 million to the United Nations...

Nigeria, UNICEF Begin Preparations for MICS7 Survey Nigeria’s economy grows 4.23% in Q2 2025, says NBS

Nigeria, UNICEF Begin Preparations for MICS7 Survey

Korede Abdullah December 3, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in partnership with UNICEF, has begun preparatory work...

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Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis

Ogun, UNICEF Launch Ambulance Boat to Save Riverine Lives

Bayelsa Wins $400,000 Health Award, Diri Orders Cabinet Checks

Stolen Classrooms, Stolen Futures: How Educating Girls Could Rewrite Northern Nigeria’s Destiny

Yobe Wins National Primary Healthcare Award, Bags $1.2m

Cholera Outbreak Kills 16 Children at DRC Orphanage

US Donates $5m to UNICEF for Malnourished Children in Northwest Nigeria

Nigeria, UNICEF Begin Preparations for MICS7 Survey

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