In collaboration with NOA, UNICEF has begun community dialogue with flood-prone communities on preparedness ahead of a flood emergency in Niger.
For children to be able to read to learn, they must be able to learn to read in the first three years of schooling.
UNICEF warned today that children are at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to the most severe flooding in the past decade.
“An explosion of child death is about to happen in the Horn of Africa,” Rania Dagash, deputy regional director of UNICEF, told a briefing.
“There is evidence today that every N1,000 invested in supporting optimal breastfeeding can generate an estimated N35,000 in economic returns for Nigeria,” said the UN expert.
The lack of menstrual pad banks sometimes forces female students to be absent from school while they are menstruating.
Commissioner for Education, Professor Badamasi Lawal, said the programme would target Kafur and Kankara LGAs.
The international organisation urged the government at all levels to redouble efforts to protect children against violence.
Bangladeshi National Film award-winning actress Bidya Sinha Saha Mim has been appointed as the newest national ambassador for the UN agency for children.
“In Nigeria there are 18.5 million out-of-school children, 60 per cent of these are girls,” Mr Farah said.