UNICEF #StopChildMalnutritionNigeria media dialogue holds

To ensure that the Nigerian child grows up healthy to attain full potentials in life, the president Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has improved funding for nutrition.

Photo News: Nigerian children receiving emergency Polio vaccine

Following the recurrence of the Polio Virus in Nigeria after vanishing for over two years,  the government has had to embark on mass vaccination for millions of children.

Over 5 million Nigerian children don't get breast milk at birth -UNICEF

More than 5 million newborns in Nigeria are deprived of essential nutrients and antibodies that protect them from disease and death as they are not being exclusively breastfed said UNICEF today, as it marks World Breastfeeding Week.

Pictured: Nigerian baby being screened for malnutrition

UNICEF resumes aid to northern Nigeria after convoy attack

After temporarily suspending the delivery of aids, UNICEF will continue to provide assistance to millions of conflict-affected children in northeast Nigeria, despite an attack on its convoy by Boko Haram Islamists, the UN children’s agency has said.

United Nations suspends aids to tense north-eastern Nigeria

The United Nations has temporarily halted humanitarian assistance missions in north-eastern Nigeria’s uneasy Borno state after an attack on a convoy belonging to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Photos of starving Nigerian children in UNICEF nutrition clinic

Images of  starving Nigerian children in Muna, a suburb on the outskirts of Maiduguri has surfaced, The United Nation's children’s agency, UNICEF runs a nutritional clinic and the pictured were taken by Stefan Heunis, a Freelance photographer based in Lagos.

Nigeria: 250,000 children in Borno suffer severe malnutrition- UN

According to a new report by the United Nations, about a quarter of a million children in Borno state, north-eastern Nigeria, are suffering from severe malnutrition, the United Nations children’s agency announced today, July 19.

Sudanese women queuing to get water after days of drinking from stream

Women queue to fill containers with water after UNICEF in Sudan delivered 100,000 litres of safe water to the site.

Photo News: UNICEF vaccination teams going door-to-door in Sierra Leone

Bless them for taking time out to administer life saving interventions.

Image Credit: UNICEF

Nigeria: UNICEF responds to state of IDPs in Borno state

Numerous reports of mass starvation at IDP camps in Bama, Borno state, have been reported in Nigeria

50 million Nigerians have no access to toilets- government announces end to open defecation by 2025

Image credit: UNICEF

The Government of Nigeria has announced a commitment to rid the country of open defecation by 2025.

Nigeria ranks 8th 'highest enslaved people in the world'

Nigeria leads in Africa and ranks eighth in the world with an estimated 875,500 modern slaves followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which ranks ninth in the world with an estimated 873,100 enslaved people.