World Breastfeeding Week : Exclusive Breastfeeding, Key to Fight Child Malnutrition
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Media Coalition Against child Malnutrition (MeCAM) have declared that exclusive breastfeeding iskey to fight against child malnutrition. They More...
Boko Haram Burns Children Alive in Saturday Night Attack in Borno State
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigeria’s More...
Lagos Re-Affirms Commitment to End Violence against Children
Hon Akande flanked by the members during the inauguration of subcommittees to end Violence against Children in Lagos State. LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (URHOBITODAY)-The Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment More...
Yuletide: NNPC-SNEPCo Shower Gifts on School Children
The General Manager, Offshore Assets of the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo), Mr. Effy Okon, in a dance with pupils of the Innercity Mission School, Ikeja, Lagos, at the SNEPCo-sponsored More...
16 Million Babies Born into Conflict in 2015-UNICEF
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY) – More than 16 million babies were born in conflict zones in 2015 – 1 in 8 of all births worldwide this year – UNICEF said today, a figure that underscores the vulnerability More...
50m Nigerians Do Not Have Access to Toilet-UNICEF
Nigerians excreting in public place LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Lack of access to toilets is endangering millions of the world’s poorest children, UNICEF said today, pointing to emerging evidence of More...
Ministerial Screening: Full Text of Amaechi’s Address to Senate
Rotimi Amaechi addressing Ssenate during Ministerial Screening LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) Your Excellency, the President of Senate, Your Excellency, the Deputy President of Senate Your Excellency, the leader More...
Aisha Buhari Promises to Advocate Publicly Legislation against Child Marriage
Aisha Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (URHOBOTODY)- Activities commemorating this year’s International Day of the Girl Child ended today with the investiture of Mrs. Aisha Buhari the wife of the Nigerian President as More...
UNICEF Bemoans Nigerian Uncleaniness, Says 86% Do Not Wash Hands after Cleaning Child’s Feaces
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)- In a survey that UNICEF carried out in six states, we found that an average of 82 per cent of people washed their hands before eating, while only 53 per cent of people washed their More...
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors Shakira, Angélique Kidjo Raise Voices in Support of New Development Era for Children
Amge;ique Kidjo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)- –Shakira and AngéliqueKidjo celebrated today’s adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals with powerful performances before an audience at the United Nations More...
Boko Haram Made 1.4m Nigerian Children Homeless-UNICEF
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The number of children forced to flee Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria and neighbouring countries has reached 1.4 million, the U.N. children agency UNICEF said More...
Presidency Lied; Buhari Indeed Stopped Worship in Aso Vila Chapel -ELOMBAH
Buhari LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Despite denials by top officials of the administration, the Presidency indeed moved against Christian religious activities within the precincts of the Aso Rock presidential villa, More...
6 Out of Every 10 Nigerian Children Experience Physical, Emotional, Sexual Violence – Survey
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Findings from the Nigeria Violence Against Children Survey were released in Abuja on 10th September 2015 unveiling the first nationally representative data on the prevalence of More...
Neymar, Serena Williams, Touré Join UNICEF, Global Goals to Teach 500m Children on Sustainable Development Goals
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Today, the Global Goals campaign and UNICEF launched the World’s Largest Lesson, an initiative to teach children in over 100 countries about the new Sustainable Development More...
Yemen is Running Out of Food, United Nation Cries Out
A displaced Yemeni child, who fled the Saada province with her family, eats bread at a school turned into a shelter in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday. LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Yemen’s conflict has pushed More...
1.7m Nigerian Children are Malnourished with a Thousand Dying Everyday
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Report made available to Urbotoday an online medium has revealed that there are approximately 1.7 million under five years children who are severely acutely malnourished in Nigeria, More...
Former Aide to Ex- President Jonathan Condemns Crackdown on ‘Baby Factories’
Reno Omokri LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, has expressed displeasure over crackdown on “baby factories” in the country, More...
Sunny Onuesoke, a Leader with Golden Heart
Chief Sunny Onuesoke admiring nature By Lucky Fasa Eghagbevwa Chief Sunny Onuesoke is a Delta state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, . one time Delta state governorship aspirant, and one politician who More...
UNICEF’s U-Report Social Platform Hits 1m Active Users in Developing Countries
U-Reporters who just signed up to the platform at a National Youth Service Corps camp in Abuja. Credit: © UNICEF/Nigeria/2015/Barebwoha LAGOS JULY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY) – U-Report, United Children Education Fund’s More...
Airtel Partners with UNICEF to Empower Nigerian Communities
LAGOS JULY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and Airtel, a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, have entered a partnership More...
Chibok Girls are Either Married Off or Sold into Slavery, Rescued Women Revealed
Chibok girls LAGOS MAY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Boko Haram is fracturing as shortages of weapons and fuel foment tensions between its foot soldiers and leaders, women rescued from the Islamist jihadi fighters by More...
INEC Resident Commissioner, Wife, Children Killed In “Strange” Fire Incident
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)- The Resident Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commissioner in Kano, Mikaila Abdulahi, has died, a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent in Kano has said. He quoted some neighbours More...
UNICEF, Online Publishers, Others Brainstorm on Promotion of Child Rights
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), members of Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) and representative of major conventional newspapers based in Enugu, capital More...
Death Toll in Mozambique Beer Poisoning Rises to 71
Mazambique’s mapeer,Mozambique,Poisoning,Alexender Manguele,Moputo LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The number of people who died after drinking allegedly poisoned beer in Mozambique has risen to 71, state-owned More...
Delta: Mother Who Lost Five Children to Ritualist Slump and Die
IGP Suleiman Abba LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A mother whose five children were allegedly killed by suspected ritualist in Otokutu, Warri, Delta State has slumped and died. The father of the children who More...