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Kano Targets 3.2m Children in Polio Vaccination Drive Health workers administering polio vaccine to children in Kano community

Kano Targets 3.2m Children in Polio Vaccination Drive

Hussaini Ibrahim April 7, 2026

KANO, Nigeria – Kano State launches a major immunisation campaign targeting more than 3.2 million children, as...

Adamawa Deploys 1,685 Teams for Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign Health workers administering polio vaccine to children in Kano community

Adamawa Deploys 1,685 Teams for Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign

Hussaini Ibrahim March 29, 2026

ADAMAWA, Nigeria – Adamawa State mobilises 1,685 health teams to vaccinate over 1.2 million children in a...

Northern Nigeria’s Silent Crisis: Teenage Pregnancy Derails Futures, Deepens Poverty Teenage mother holding child in Kano community

Northern Nigeria’s Silent Crisis: Teenage Pregnancy Derails Futures, Deepens Poverty

Mirian Gom March 24, 2026

KANO, NIGERIA – Beneath the hum of daily life in Northern Nigeria, a quiet crisis is unfolding—one...

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...

UNICEF Nigeria

Kano Targets 3.2m Children in Polio Vaccination Drive

Adamawa Deploys 1,685 Teams for Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign

Northern Nigeria’s Silent Crisis: Teenage Pregnancy Derails Futures, Deepens Poverty

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

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