Tag: Children

The Lagos State government has reiterated its commitment to safeguarding children from vaccine-preventable diseases, as it introduced the measles–rubella vaccine ...

President Bola Tinubu has ordered a full investigation into the gruesome killing of a housewife, Fatima Abubakar, and her six ...

The police command in Kano State has launched an investigation into an alleged brutal attack on the household of one ...

The State Security Service (SSS), has rescued 25 children recently abducted by gunmen in Sabon Layi community of Wase Local ...

The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has rescued four abducted children and reunited them with their families, following an ...

The Bauchi government says it immunised 3.7 million children during the 2025 Measles/Rubella (MR) vaccination exercise in the state. Ibrahim ...

  The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed responses to two emergencies on Sunday, at Lekki and Apapa, ...

  The Kaduna state nutrition officer, Ramatu Musa, says a total of 30,089 children across all the 23 local government ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Bauchi State government have flagged off a seven-day immunisation exercise to vaccinate ...

  The Ondo State Primary Healthcare Development Agency says it is targeting 2.2 million children in the 18 local government ...

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has outlined key reforms to strengthen Nigeria’s primary healthcare system, expand immunisation coverage, ...

  The Kogi government says it has foiled a suspected child-trafficking operation in Yagba East, rescuing 21 children aged between ...

    In a major breakthrough in the fight against educational exclusion, the federal government has identified and documented 700,000 ...

  The Northern Governors Forum has aligned on the urgency of investing in the first 2,000 days of lives. The ...

  The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Keffi in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, has successfully performed at least 18 open-heart surgeries on ...

Two children have drowned in separate well incidents in Dala and Dawakin Tofa Local Government Areas of Kano State. This ...

A boat capsized on a lake in northeastern Ghana, killing 15 people, mostly children, maritime authorities said on Sunday. "Tragically, ...

  Stakeholders have rallied psychosocial support for children affected by crises in Katsina, aimed at helping them cope with trauma ...

Governor Charles Soludo says resuscitation of the public school system has yielded remarkable results in literacy, numeracy, and school enrolment ...

By Abah Benjamin Eneojoh, Lokoja Kogi State Government has launched the 2025 Integrated Measles-Rubella, Polio, and HPV Immunization Campaign. This ...

Nigeria is rolling out one of the largest integrated vaccination campaigns in its history, aiming to protect around 106 million ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says about 7.8 million children in Kano State will be vaccinated against measles rubella ...

The Katsina government says it plans to conduct tuberculosis screening and treatment for vulnerable children, especially street children and those ...

The Lagos government, through its Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, has urged children to speak out against all forms of ...

The Protection Against the Abduction and Missing of Our Children, an NGO, has called for urgent action by security agencies ...

Eleven children from Taraba State have been rescued after being illegally transported to Delta State under the guise of receiving ...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command says its operatives have rescued two minors and their mother from a violent ...

Childhood obesity has overtaken underweight as the most common form of malnutrition among school-aged children and adolescents, UNICEF said in ...

A dramatic late-night legal fight unfolded in the United States over the deportation of Guatemalan children, as a federal judge ...

UNICEF estimates that thousands of Nigerian children are trafficked annually, often ending up in forced labour, sexual exploitation, or illegal ...

ABUJA—An Improvised Explosive Device, IED, mistaken for scrap metal, exploded in Konduga, Borno State, leaving two children dead and four ...

ABUJA - UNICEF has raised concern over the nutritional status of children in Kano, revealing that 51.9 per cent of ...

Popular Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has apologised to his wife, Natasha, his children, and fans after ...

Olalekan Abiola, one of the sons of the late business mogul, Chief MKO Abiola, has revealed that 66 people who ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has raised serious concerns about the current aid distribution in Gaza, calling it disorganized, ...

In commemoration of this year’s Children’s Day celebration, Tomorrow's Women Development Organisation (TWDO), in collaboration with Thelema Lions Multipurpose Cooperative ...

A once-iconic symbol of papal diplomacy is being transformed into a life-saving vehicle. The popemobile that carried Pope Francis through ...

In a shocking revelation, Elon Musk’s alleged personal plan to father 5,000 children has surfaced, reportedly revealed in private text ...

The Trump administration has halted funding for a program tracking thousands of Ukrainian children allegedly abducted by Russia, raising concerns ...

A former French surgeon accused of sexually assaulting nearly 300 patients, most of them children, is set to stand trial ...