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THE recent abduction of over two hundred students by bandits in Kaduna State has been strongly condemned by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Trojan News reported earlier that bandits attacked the Government Secondary School and LEA primary school in Kuriga, Kaduna State, whisking away no fewer than 280 students, pupils and teachers. …

THE United Nations Children’s Fund has tasked the federal government to provide adolescent Nigerian girls with the platforms to express, learn, and thrive, noting the abundance of resilience, strength, and potential innate in many girls. UNICEF Country Representative, Cristian Munduate, who made the call in a press release to mark …

THE United Nations Children’s Fund has said 333 million children are still living in extreme poverty globally. The report from UNICEF and the World Bank indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic led to the abolition of extreme poverty for 30 million fewer children than was previously predicted. According to the statistics, …

The United Nations Children’s Fund Representative in Nigeria has urged the federal and state governments to enhance their judicial systems to ensure proper prosecution of bandits for their various crimes before the courts of law. Cristian Munduate was addressing newsmen in Maiduguri, Friday, August 18, preparatory to the commemoration of …

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that the Diphtheria outbreak has claimed 122 lives in Nigeria, with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 8.7%. According to statement issued by UNICEF Nigeria Country Representative, Dr. Cristian Munduate, a copy of which was made available to journalists in Bauchi State on …

In Sudan, about 435 children have been killed and 2,025 injured since violence broke out three months ago, according to a statement issued by the UN children’s agency UNICEF on Monday. “The impact that this conflict has had on children in Sudan over the last 100 days is unfathomable,” said …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated a total of 1,212 delivery kits to the Anambra State Government. Receiving the kits on behalf of the State government, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike noted that during the 2022 flood menace, the wife of the governor of the …

The United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) has said no fewer than 600 persons died while 1.3 million others were displaced from their homes during the flooding that ravaged parts of the country this year. Chief of UNICEF Field Office, Enugu, Mrs Juliet Chiluwe, who said the figure was obtained from …

THE Kaduna State Government, in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has begun the process of integrating hundreds of Almajirai into formal education system. This came as the deputy governor of Kaduna State, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, said that the government welcomes the support that development partners are providing in its …

The United Nations Children’s Fund will to provide pyschosocial support to the 21 rescued children in Katsina State. This was contained in a statement issued by the UNICEF Communication Specialist, Samuel Kalu, on Tuesday in Katsina. Kalu said that the therapy would help the children handle the trauma and also …