It added that “Nigeria is among the 12 hardest hit countries by the global food and nutrition crisis, while the other countries were Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger,
“In Nigeria, there have been numerous reports of children being recruited and used by armed groups.”
The UN agency urged the federal, state and local governments to collaborate in “bringing children back to school.”
The abduction of children “whether at home, at school, on the farm, or anywhere else, is reprehensible.”
Described as the “most severe flooding” in the past decade, the 2022 floods have affected 34 out of Nigeria’s 36 states, displacing 1.3 million people.
