Integrating Services to Scale-up Birth Registration in Nigeria
Rose Wisdom rocks her baby girl back and forth. Mami is only two weeks old and appears uncomfortable with the heat and the bustle around her at the Hope for the Village Child Foundation Centre in Chikun, on the outskirts of Kaduna in Northern Nigeria. After having her newborn daughter registered, Ms. Wisdom is waiting […]
Dangote Donates $.5m to UNICEF, Plans $8 Billion Refinery in Nigeria
Nigerian Industrialist and Billionaire Philanthropist, Aliko Dangote, has donated the sum of $500,000 to UNICEF in Nigeria, to assist the government to manage the recent measles outbreak in certain states in Nigeria. The funds, according to Jean Gough, UNICEF Chief for Nigeria, will be used to procure 1.7 million doses of measles vaccine. Gough, during the UNICEF’s courtesy visit at which Dangote announced […]
UNICEF collaborates with CPN for new Child Justice Clinic in Abuja
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has collaborated with FCT’s Child Protection Network (CPN) to launch a new Child Justice Clinic, in Abuja, for children, who may need justice on certain issues and psychological assistance. Speaking in the launch ceremony, UNICEF’s Chief of Field Assistant for ‘C’ Field Office – the office responsible for the […]