A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a suicide bomb in Kano, Nigeria’s second largest city in the north. Nigeria has suffered numerous suicide bombings in recent months carried out by girls and young women. That has raised fears that the insurgents are using …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned escalating violence against children in the north east of Nigeria, suggesting the world turned its eyes away from the crisis. UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake said: “These images from Northern Nigeria should be searing the conscience of the world.” It comes ahead of a weeklong …

Over 41 per cent children have been affected by insurgency in the North-East and while about 891,000 adults are in camps while over 100,000 others are dissolved into the host communities. These figures were given by the Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sani Sidi, when the Special Representatives of the United Nations …

According to experts, breastfeeding can prevent the deaths of many babies. VICTOR OKEKE  writes that focusing on it alone can reduce infant mortality drastically. Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months can reduce child deaths by at least 800,000 each year – almost 15% of the total 6.3 million annual child deaths. Babies who are not breastfed …

  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Kebbi State Primary Health Care Development Agency will partner with Journalists in the campaign against Polio. The Public Relations Officer of the agency, Mr Garba Yeldu, made this known in an interview with newsmen  in Birnin Kebbi. According to him, the partnership will focus on intensification …