The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reacted to sentencing of 13-year-old Umar Farouq to 10 years in prison for blasphemy. Umar was handed the jail sentence by Aliyu Kanu, the same judge who passed a death sentence on Kano musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu for blasphemy, after being found guilty of using “disparaging language on Allah”
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ANAMBRA, Awka The Anambra state Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala has reassured that the state will continue to cooperate with the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control including other partners in the fight against COVID 19 pandemic. The Commissioner gave the reassurance when representatives of UNICEF and NCDC
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the Kano State Government has inaugurated a 30-man Technical Working Group (TWG) to develop a Social Protection policy. The Social Protection Policy was to drive the design and implementation of policies and programmes to tackle issues of poverty and vulnerability in the state. UNICEF Social Policy
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