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The United Nations Children’s Funds in collaboration with Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office in Nigeria has stated that despite the progress made, Nigeria is not likely to achieve the global agenda of universal inclusive and equitable quality basic education for all school-age children by 2030 if the current very low …

OCP Africa, a global leader in the production and exportation of phosphate-based fertilizer, has partnered with the Nigerian Institute of Soil Science (NISS), on a capacity-building initiative to combat problematic soil in the country. This, as it said providing solutions to one of the farmer’s age-long menace will ensure food …

To mark this year’s Children’s Day today, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has launched a campaign titled: ” For every child, every right” to draw awareness to children’s rights by all of Nigerian society. According to UNICEF’s new Country Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, while there have been many …

The toll in a suspected meningitis epidemic in Nigeria has killed 745 people, a rise of over 250 in just over a week, the federal government said on Wednesday. Over 8,000 suspected cases of the disease have been reported across the country over the past five months although most have …

The United Nations Children and Education Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that 85 per cent of female bombers in the world are in Nigeria. Women and girls, who have escaped Boko Haram have reported undergoing a systematic training programme to train them as bombers, UNICEF reported. It said 85 per cent …

A World Bank Specialist on Welfare Economics, Prof. Foluso Okunmadewa says Nigeria loses 1.5 billion dollars in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Okunmadewa said this at the Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the reviewed Draft National Policy on Food and Nutrition (NPFN) by the Federal Ministry of …

Some women are desperate to have children – but some are desperate not to. Here,two who want to stay child-free explain why. Holly Brockwell, 29, from London, has been trying to get sterilised, while in Tehran thirty-something Nina Nikoo (not her real name) faces family pressure to get pregnant. Holly …

David Beckham will play in a charity football match at Old Trafford with Sir Alex Ferguson managing a side of sporting stars. Beckham made the announcement to Nick Grimshaw on Radio 1 Breakfast Show. “It’s something I’ve very excited about,” he says. “I retired three years ago and I never …

Students of UNILAG have shut down the school this Monday morning over bedbugs attacks in the school hostels. Students at the gate According to eye witnesses, all hostels have been taken over by bedbugs and no help in sight from the school authorities,hence the protest this morning by the Students. …