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Streets Instead of Schoolyards: How Nigeria’s Poverty Trap Is Stealing Childhoods, Endangering Public Health Child hawker navigating traffic in Abuja street

Child hawker navigating traffic in Abuja street

Streets Instead of Schoolyards: How Nigeria’s Poverty Trap Is Stealing Childhoods, Endangering Public Health

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius December 15, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – On the scorching asphalt of Nigeria’s capital, childhood begins not with school bells or...

Lagos Launches Urgent Nutrition Rescue Plan for Vulnerable Children Lagos State warns residents against unregistered hospitals, launches HEFAMAA barcode verification system

Lagos State warns residents against unregistered hospitals, launches HEFAMAA barcode verification system

Lagos Launches Urgent Nutrition Rescue Plan for Vulnerable Children

Korede Abdullah November 27, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – Lagos State is rolling out a 90-day therapeutic nutrition rescue programme targeting 150 vulnerable...

Media Leaders, Others Push Action to Protect Children Nationwide Media leaders speaking at World Children’s Day symposium in Lagos

Media leaders speaking at World Children’s Day symposium in Lagos

Media Leaders, Others Push Action to Protect Children Nationwide

Mirian Gom November 25, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Journalists, policymakers, and development leaders converge in Lagos for the World Children’s Day Media...

Held Down by Tradition: Nigeria’s Unfinished War Against Female Genital Mutilation

Nigeria’s Unfinished War Against Female Genital Mutilation

Held Down by Tradition: Nigeria’s Unfinished War Against Female Genital Mutilation

Korede Abdullah November 5, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) remains one of Nigeria’s most persistent and painful cultural legacies....

Broken Promises, Empty Classrooms: Why Northern Nigeria’s Schools Remain Unsafe Abandoned classroom in Zamfara State symbolising Nigeria’s school safety crisis.

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

Broken Promises, Empty Classrooms: Why Northern Nigeria’s Schools Remain Unsafe

Hussaini Ibrahim October 27, 2025

ZAMFARA, Nigeria – Eleven years after the world was jolted by the abduction of over 270 schoolgirls...

Toilets, Dignity, and Learning: FCT’s Hidden School Sanitation Crisis A doorless toilet at Karonmagiji Primary School along Airport Road, Abuja, reflects the poor sanitation conditions faced by pupils in many public schools across the FCT.

A doorless toilet at Karonmagiji Primary School along Airport Road, Abuja, reflects the poor sanitation conditions faced by pupils in many public schools across the FCT.

Toilets, Dignity, and Learning: FCT’s Hidden School Sanitation Crisis

Chukwu Obinna October 16, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – At first glance, Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), projects modernity — broad highways,...

Nasarawa to Vaccinate 1.3m Children Against Measles, Rubella Health officials launch measles-rubella vaccination campaign in Nasarawa State Nigeria

Health officials launch measles-rubella vaccination campaign in Nasarawa State Nigeria

Nasarawa to Vaccinate 1.3m Children Against Measles, Rubella

Hussaini Ibrahim October 4, 2025

LAFIA, Nigeria – The Nasarawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has launched a mass vaccination campaign targeting...

Kwara to Integrate Measles-Rubella Vaccine into Routine Immunisation Measles-Rubella Vaccination

Measles-Rubella Vaccination

Kwara to Integrate Measles-Rubella Vaccine into Routine Immunisation

Dennis Gabriel September 11, 2025

Dennis Gabriel ABUJA, Nigeria – The Kwara State Government will from October incorporate Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccination into...