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NOA Tackles Diversion of Therapeutic Food for Malnourished Children Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food packets used to treat malnourished children

Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food packets used to treat malnourished children

NOA Tackles Diversion of Therapeutic Food for Malnourished Children

Hussaini Ibrahim March 12, 2026

JIGAWA, Nigeria – Stakeholders mobilise communities to protect life-saving nutrition supplies The National Orientation Agency (NOA) on...

FG, UNICEF Reopen $406,000 Vaccine Cold Store in Borno Reconstructed vaccine cold chain facility in Maiduguri, Borno State

FG, UNICEF Reopen $406,000 Vaccine Cold Store in Borno

Hussaini Ibrahim February 27, 2026

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria’s Federal Government and UNICEF unveil a $406,000 reconstructed Central Cold Chain Store in...

Zamfara Boosts Sexual Assault Centre, Pledges Tougher Crackdown On GBV Zamfara to spend ₦1.07bn on healthcare for vulnerable”

Zamfara Boosts Sexual Assault Centre, Pledges Tougher Crackdown On GBV

Koko Maxwella February 27, 2026

GUSAU, Nigeria – The Zamfara State Government renews its commitment to combating gender-based violence by strengthening support...

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North UNICEF officials and Faji residents at NTD town hall in Osun

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North

Hussaini Ibrahim February 12, 2026

KANO, Nigeria – The United Nations Children’s Fund warns that millions of children in Northern Nigeria remain...

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis? Out-of-school children sitting along a street in Northern Nigeria, highlighting the country’s education crisis.

Out-of-school children sitting along a street in Northern Nigeria, highlighting the country’s education crisis.

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis?

Mirian Gom January 16, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – A child who is not in school is not just missing lessons — they...

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, 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

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...

UNICEF Nigeria

NOA Tackles Diversion of Therapeutic Food for Malnourished Children

FG, UNICEF Reopen $406,000 Vaccine Cold Store in Borno

Zamfara Boosts Sexual Assault Centre, Pledges Tougher Crackdown On GBV

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis?

Lagos Launches Urgent Nutrition Rescue Plan for Vulnerable Children

Media Leaders, Others Push Action to Protect Children Nationwide

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

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

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