The figures released by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS recently regarding the large number of babies in the country born with HIV and children who are not on treatment should worry any serious country. UNAIDS said Nigeria still has the world’s highest number of HIV positive babies with one in seven […]
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To combat diarrhea in Kano and Sokoto states, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa and Nutrition International have launched the field implementation component of the Wellbeing Africa Foundation-Nutrition International Scaling Up Zinc and LO-ORS project. In partnership with the Ministries of Health in both states, Wellbeing Foundation Africa and Nutrition International are targeting caregivers with messages promoting […]
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The Director, Child Welfare, Gombe State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Joseph Markus, has lamented the increase of underaged girls for cheap labour on the farmlands. He made this revelation in his address on Tuesday, at a media roundtable organised by Save the Children International towards ending child marriage in the state. The […]
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The United Nations Children’s Fund on Tuesday commended the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, for signing the Child Protection Bill into Law. The bill was signed on Monday in a ceremony attended by the United Nations Resident Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon. In a statement titled, ‘UNICEF welcomes signing of Child Protection Bill […]
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Photo: ThisisAfrica The tragedy of the plight of the girl-child in Nigeria can be directly traced to the selfishness and uncaring attitude of politicians and public office holders who have the means to shield their daughters from abuse while looking the other way in respect of other girls. Why else would many of them refuse […]
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A new report by Save the Children International says 78 per cent of girls from the northern part of Nigeria are married off before the age of 18. The report, titled ‘State of the Nigerian Girl Report – An Incisive Diagnosis of Child Marriage’, captures socio-cultural norms and practices in Nigeria around child marriage. According […]
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An Ilorin-based legal practitioner, Mr Yusuf Lawal, has advocated the need for early sex education for children in the country. Lawal, who made the call in Ilorin on Saturday in an interview, said sex education would help prevent children from sexual abuse. According to him, parents must engage their children on sex education and how […]
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A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, February 6, 2020. Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo A raging measles outbreak has sickened thousands and killed nearly 100 in crisis-ravaged Afghanistan this year, the World Health Organization said Friday, […]
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Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has honoured nine-year-old Miss Deborah Quickpen for her heroic feat at the recent Africa Youth Chess Championship in Accra, Ghana. Quickpen emerged champion in the U-10 category after winning nine of 10 games. According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Daniel Alabrah, aside from appointing the Bayelsa-born chess […]
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A baby receives a dose of the RTS,S vaccine for malaria in Cape Coast, Ghana in 2019. Credit: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty/Nature With the recent endorsement of the long-expected first malaria vaccine, RTS, S/AS01 (RTS,S), by the World Health Organisation (WHO), children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high Plasmodium falciparum transmission will, […]
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