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We work to promote the rights of children in Nigeria. At this time, we are especially working with partners to prevent the spread of diseases. Learn how we are supporting children to reach their full potential.

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What you need to know about the coronavirus

Latest updates and resources to help you protect yourself and your family from coronavirus

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Team MUDA
Press release
11 December 2020

Global recognition for youths from north-east Nigeria

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Amira goes back to school
Article
Amira sets aside her fears and returns to school

For Amira, returning to school has marked another change in her life – a return to planning for a promising future

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The heroes of Zomon Ahmadu
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The heroes of Zomon Ahmadu

Braving a harsh climate and difficult terrain, women health workers are providing remote communities lifesaving services

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Bayaro, the local blacksmith, is also a UNICEF-supported medical corps
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In Yalwa, a resident ‘doctor’

With support from the EU, UNICEF is reducing infant mortality rates in Bauchi communities with a community health volunteer programme

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A mother and her child at a health centre
Photo Essay
In northern Nigeria, volunteer drivers save children’s lives

Thanks to EU support, there is now a corps of 900 trained volunteer drivers transporting children who need urgent medical care to hospitals in Kebbi State

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A mother and son with a birth certificate
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Traditional leaders push for birth registration

With support from the European Union, UNICEF has been working with state governments and traditional leaders to encourage and support birth registration

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Mother and child
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In north-west Nigeria, cash transfers benefit family health

The EU funds transport vouchers through its Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition project in Kebbi, Adamawa and Bauchi States

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A girl in class
Article
Girls education benefits from school improvements

Learning has improved at a girls secondary school in north-east Nigeria following intervention by UNICEF, supported by philanthropist Nazanin Alakija

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A girl at a learning centre
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Displaced girls’ education gets boost

A school renovation by UNICEF, with support from philanthropist Nazanin Alakija, is turning around learning in north-east Nigeria

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A boy looking out the window
Press release
01 December 2020

Almost 15 per cent of global AIDS-related deaths in children and adolescents globally occur in Nigeria

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A girl at school
Article
Cash transfers boost girls’ education in northern Nigeria

UNICEF, in partnership with Educate a Child (EAC) – Education Above All (EAA), is helping to drive children's enrolment in school

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Community champion
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Community champion reaches Hausa community in Lagos

UNICEF works with community champions who are key to spreading messages on how to access health interventions in under-served communities in Lagos State

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A girl shows her clean hands after handwashing
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Young champions help support the COVID-19 response in Lagos

Children become change champions within their communities as they help raise awareness on curbing the spread of the coronavirus

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