says Ondo invests in Education, Health, Infrastructure Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has said his administration is committed to programs and policies that will secure the lives and future of children in the State. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde, said that in his 2023 Children’s Day message, the governor said deliberate […]
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Ronke Oshodi Oke, a movie star, shared on her Instagram page that her daughter was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night after drinking hypo. She urged parents to be cautious of their children and warned the school to prevent such incidents from occurring. Ronke suspected that her daughter’s roommate might have […]
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Almost half of the 67 million children who missed out on routine vaccination between 2019 and 2021 live on the African continent, and as of the end of 2021, India and Nigeria, which are described in the report as “countries with very large birth cohorts”, had the highest numbers of children who hadn’t received a […]
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Adeife and Akinola Twenty years after, two young and promising children were snatched away by the cold hands of death, the family said they might have died, but not forgotten. On April 20, 2003, Adeife, 14, and Akinola Sodipo-Akindeko, 10, were killed during an attack on the convoy of Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello. During their short […]
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98 Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram remain in captivity; More than 61 children are still being held in captivity two years after they were abducted by gunmen; Lack of accountability for crimes against children emboldens impunity. Nine years after Boko Haram abducted 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok, 98 girls are […]
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New reports have shown that the global number of maternal deaths fell from around 446, 000 in 2000 to around 287,000 in 2020, which represents a 36 percent decrease. However, in Nigeria, it is estimated that eight million children are born every year with seven million pregnant women at any moment, with the country’s poor […]
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A sleeping 24-day-old baby cradled by his mother – UNICEF-UN0188884-Njiokiktjien VII Photo Lagos State accounts for about 2,000 children with stunted growth due to malnutrition, Mrs Ada Ezeogu, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Nutrition Specialist, said on Saturday. Consequently, Ezeogu said that it was imperative to ensure that the numbers didn’t continue to increase because […]
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The escalating cases of domestic child abuse of which children have sometimes been faced with near death situations are sad spectacles of man’s inhumanity to man. Virtually every week, gory images of abused children fill the media space leaving many to wonder whether humanity is beginning to run out of patience for children. Indeed, at […]
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Child labour Alerts on traffickers’ method in FCT The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has rescued three children hired for N3,000 daily from their parents. Director General, NAPTIP, Professor Fatima Waziri-Azi, disclosed in a press release, that the suspects specialised in collecting babies in connivance with other members of the […]
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The Police Command in Nasarawa State has confirmed the rescue of the remaining four abducted pupils of Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) Primary School Alwaza, Doma Local Government Area. DSP Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state made the confirmation to newsmen on Friday in Lafia. Six pupils of LGEA Primary School […]
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