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Views: Visits 10 Non-profit organisation Connected Development had many sitting right up with this startling claim about mortality in Africa’s most populous country. Thankfully, it’s incorrect. To mark World Health Day in April 2021, Nigerian non-profit organisation Connected Development made an alarming claim about child mortality.“In commemoration of #WorldHealthDay2021, we are reminded that annually, Nigeria loses over 99% of children below the age of five due to dilapidated health care services,” the organisation tweeted. Connected Development, which focuses on...

Guard against resurgence of polio, vaccinate your children, UNICEF warns On By Chioma Obinna The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has urged Nigerians to be on guard against the resurgence of polio in the country by ensuring that their children participate in the country’s routine immunisation.   After over three decades, Nigeria precisely on August 25, 2020, declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation, WHO following the struggle to end poliovirus in 1988 championed by global bodies including WHO, UNICEF, and the Rotary Foundation. Also, the United State Centres for Dise...

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Barbados government has said there’s no child labour on the island even as a Multiple Indicator Cluster 2012 Survey conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) points to 2.3 per cent incident rate on the island. In a statement, Labour and Social Partnership Relations Minister Colin Jordan explained that what the data showed was that a significant number of children were involved in household chores. “Let me make it absolutely clear that we have no concerns regarding children under the age of 16 who are permitted to age-appropriate work on weekends and ...