This year’s children’s day celebration is themed: ‘Protect the rights of the child in the face of violence and insecurity: End child marriage’. It speaks to the frightening statistics showing alarming
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Nigeria has approximately 10 million out of school children, according to the United Nations Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Mohammed Mohiuddin, UNICEF’s chief of Sokoto field office, disclosed this recently. “Nigeria has
Rita Edochie, popular Nollywood actress, has revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse, calling on parents to communicate regularly with their children. Edochie, who was a guest at

The United Nation Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says one in four of the world’s school-aged children – nearly half a billion, live in countries, including Nigeria, affected by crises. WHO

Every year, about 800,000 children under five years die in Nigeria, Developmental Communications Network (DEVCOMS), a non-governmental organisation, said on

A seven-day-old child and his seven-year-old sibling died on Wednesday after following the collapse of a wall in one of

More than six in 10 Nigerian children have no early childhood education, Save the Children Nigeria, a humanitarian organsation that promotes

Infants exclusively breastfed have stronger immune system that enables them to defend life-threatening illnesses, experts have said. Olusola Malomo, a dietician,

Boko Haram attacks and the Nigerian military tactics are depriving over 1 million children in the north-east an education, a