The younger the child, typically the less costly the celebration, with 1-year-old and 2-year-old birthday parties costing an average of $279. Spending on birthday parties for kids 6 to 9 rose, on ...

Helping improve child health through radio in Nigeria. Nigeria is one of only three countries where polio is yet to be eradicated, with some of the world's highest death rates for under-fives.

To be called a nation, we must achieve it, if not in our time, then in the time of our children. Nigeria in 2025 - a Banner Without Stain - allAfrica.com AllAfrica ...

Ifiok Ettang reports from Jos, Nigeria. In 2003, then-Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Child Right Act into law in 2003, to preserve the rights of children and protect them from ...

So far this year, 83 attacks have taken place using children, usually girls — four times as many as in all of 2016. The militant group known as Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for many of ...

Like many kids who grew up in the ’80s, I went to a few friends’ and classmates’ birthday parties every year, and they were mostly simple, thrown-together affairs.

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Nigeria's army says that three child suicide bombers set off explosions that killed six others and injured at least 24 people. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman said Monday that the ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says immunisation efforts were hampered by disparities, violence, false information, and financial shortages, resulting in 14.5 million children globally ...

More than a dozen of Nigeria’s 36 states have not enacted the 2003 Child Rights Act, which states 18 as the minimum age for betrothal and marriage. The statistics in Nigeria reveal a wider trend.

About 44 per cent of girls are married before their 18th birthday and 31 per cent of women 20-24 years have given birth by age 18, the ChildNotBride 2018 report noted.