18th January, 2024: Safety Concerns Rise as Mass Kidnapping Resurfaces in Nigeria.
The 5th Estate News || Thursday 18th January 2024
Kidnappings and killings have returned to Nigeria’s federal capital, Abuja, after over 10 months of silence from the bandits.
A Collaborative effort between the Katsina State Government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has seen 1,395 girls return to school across three local councils of the state.
The World Bank recently released the global growth projections for 2024, with the expectation that Nigeria will grow by 3.3 per cent this year, although global economy is set for weakest half-decade performance in 30 Years.
The founder of Jedidiah Divine Home of Love (JEDLOF), a non-governmental organisation, Dr (Mrs) Ebele Okoye has stressed the need for both government, organisations, and well-meaning individuals to rise to the challenge of widows in society.
A Nongovernmental organisation, Global Peace Foundation, has trained 100 women in Plateau on financial literacy, and gifted them a take-off grant of N500, 000 to start cooperative societies and establish businesses.
The United Nations (UN) has sounded the alarm over a disturbing surge in kidnapping for ransom incidents.
“We are the future. We are the dream. We are the nation. We are part of this.” That is what Temitope Ejide, then 16 and still at school, told the audience at the Nigerian Economic Summit, in the capital Abuja, in 2014.
The World Bank’s Nigeria development update, titled, ‘Turning the Corner: From Reforms & Renewed Hope, to Results,’ in December last year stated in unambiguous terms that?
poverty rate in Nigeria had increased to 46 percent in 2023, representing 104 million poor Nigerians.?
RUFUS EGUNYOMI is the founder of a non-governmental organization, Right Advocacy Initiatives for Road Accident Victims in Nigeria. In this chat with ISAAC NGUMAH, Egunyomi talks about the NGO’s operations and what the government can do to assist.?
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From conflicts to climate disasters, 2023 was a tough year to be a child in countries where emergency after emergency impacted their rights. In a year when humanitarian needs have never been greater, UNICEF continued to deliver for children and young people, no matter where they were, with over 17,000 staff working across more than 190 countries and territories.?
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