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UNICEF has been on ground in Mokwa, Niger State 🇳🇬 providing nutrition, health care, water purification and psychosocial support in two camps set up for the people displaced by the recent flash flood which has left over 2,000 people missing, 54% of them children under 12 years.

There is a mobile health truck going round hard-to-reach communities in Nigeria. Follow Gerida Birukila, to take you through how the solar-powered mobile truck is providing them with routine immunizations and essential health services, thanks to support from @gatesfoundation.

We joined HE, First Lady @SenRemiTinubu & leaders at the #FreetoShine launch in Ilorin. This initiative, led by @_AfricanUnion & @OAFLAD, reinforces Africa’s commitment to ending childhood HIV. Together we can ensure timely treatment for children & adolescents living with HIV.

@UNICEF_Nigeria Yes! Kaduna state Government House and the State house went blue! 💪🏾💪🏾

Across Nigeria, iconic landmarks #GoBlue in support of children’s rights! Spotted a blue landmark near you? Let us know in the comments! #WorldChildrensDay 💙

@DaleMantey @JustinSandefur And now Lagos is coming up strongly! The vaccine refusal lately is worrisome. So some elitism is probably evolving..!

Nigeria is such an insane outlier on child mortality. 3 to 4 TIMES more child deaths than its income would predict.

As part of the KdCHAMPS, KADBUSA with the support of UNICEF have kicked off the literacy component: TaRL (Teaching at the Right Level) for 250 kids in Rigasa at our Community Center for Children and Adolescents. @ubasanius @DepGovKaduna @KadunaMOH @KadunaSubeb @EUinNigeria @UNICEF_Nigeria @UNODC_PTRS @UNODC_Nigeria @josephoike

UNICEF's Gerida Birukila was at the school in Kaduna State, where over 300 students have been abducted. Gerida met a mother whose 8 children have been kidnapped. UNICEF will provide psychosocial support services to families while they await the return of their kidnapped children.

Press coverage of Zero Dose outreaches at Tudu Community of Turunku Wards of Igabi LGA. @GBirukila @duguriprince @UNICEF_Nigeria @UNICEF @KadunaMOH @ubasanius @eCAPH2

Thank you @daily_trust for doing what every sensible newspaper should have done on this sensitive issue at this crucial time A video showing corpses on the ground was circulated on this platform, a day after the Jos unfortunate incident made it to the news. The 1:38 video captured two children who survived the attack, while one is wrapped to its dead mother’s back and the second is cuddled by the dead mother. The video, which was posted on several handles on X to show some of the victims, has an X user, Somto Okonkwo, posting: “This is so tragic to watch on Christmas day: viewers’ discretion advised. Over 70 Christians killed by Fulani herdsmen while they were celebrating Christmas in Bokkos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Women and children slaughtered worse than animals. Every year, these killer Fulani herdsmen carry out these senseless massacres during Christmas and nothing is done to stop it. In fact, none of these herdsmen will be arrested or prosecuted by the Nigerian government and armed forces.”  Verification The conversation in the video is in Fulfulde (Fulani). Also, one of the corpses is with a keffiyeh – a scarf popular among inhabitants of the Sahelian region of Africa. With these two, it could be inferred that the victims are Fulani. This suggests the video is not related to the recent Plateau killings. A further analysis using key frame analysis from InVid video verifier indicated that the video was uploaded by an X user on December 16. The poster of the video who wrote in French stated that the incident occurred in Burkina Faso. A Google translation of the post states that: “The National junta army in power in Burkina Faso, accompanied by VDP and under advice from the Malian junta and Wagner’s partners, carried out this week a massacre of more than 200 civilians, including mainly women and children, in several villages in the Djibo area. One of the unbearable and horrible images was taken by those this army fled upon learning that they were approaching the scene. These power-hungry putschist regimes are dragging their respective countries into unlimited anarchy.” Effort to check if there was a reported attack in December, using Google search did not yield any result. As such, it could not be confirmed if the video was recent. But media reports and research showed that Djibo is a volatile area in Burkina Faso and one of the strongholds of Islamist militants terrorising the country. The intensity of the security lapses in the area led to food blockage into the town, with a report by Relief Web warning the suspension of humanitarian efforts in the area due to the insecurity which would result in a famine and plunge its 300,000 habitants into malnutrition. Verdict: From the foregoing, analysis of the video indicates that it is not related to the Plateau massacre as it was available on the internet more than a week before the killings in Plateau State. Read the full report here: dailytrust.com/misleading-vid… Kindly share for more awareness!

@PDPGovernment Let's have the @kauranbauchi poll now. And the game begins!!

@PDPGovernment None. Bala Abdullkadir Mohammed (Kauran Bauchi) is the man to beat! His leadership style, administrative acumen and party loyalty is next to none

@MKKyari Ameen!

May Allah have mercy upon Malam Abba. May Jannatul-Firdaus be his abode.

@PremiumTimesng The courage others lack!

Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s courage, By Bayo Onanuga bit.ly/3fwHDiR

@daily_trust @elrufai Most of your APC colleagues are spineless! Just fight your battle

You Didn’t Support Me During Face-Off With NLC, El-Rufai Slams Governors ow.ly/7Nf350ER6t4

@dawisu Rashin sani yafi dare duhu! You are in position to be better informed before you go on to tweet this myopic position. Kuyi yi wa Malam adalci. Ku tambaya; shin, su wa ya kora aiki? Me yasa ya kore su? Kafin ya dauki wannan matakin wasu processes ya bi?

Please NLC should not even think of extending their Kaduna strike to nationwide strike. Kaduna issue is not a national issue please, the rest of the country can't be made to suffer for the decisions of Elrufai. If their 1wk strike isn't enough in Kaduna, let them make it 1month!

HC for Health, ES KADHSMA, ES SPHCB, ES KADIPA, DPS @ Omenako, Ghana to understudy their drone operations following the SLA signed with the MOH. This will enable distribution of drugs and vaccines to hard to reach areas @GovKaduna @KadunaMOH,@KADHSMA @KadunaSPHCB,@InvestKaduna

‘Rules are not more important than Results Rules are control systems created by man and must not deter us from achieving results! Rules cannot rule us’ - Iron Man, Kaduna 2021