In its 2019 state of the world population report, UNFPA said Nigeria’s growth rate has been at an average of 2.6 percent from 2010 to 2019. The fertility rate among Nigerian women has dropped from 6.4 in 1969 to 5.3 in 2019; this means an average Nigerian woman gives birth to at least five children.

Global fertility rate, or the average number of births per woman stood at 4.8 in 1969; 2.9 in 1994; and 2.5 in 2019. The report says contraceptive prevalence rate among Nigerian women aged 15-49 is only 19 percent, adding that decision making on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights among these women has averaged at 51 percent between 2007 to 2018.

This means 49 percent of Nigerian women still do not have the power to decide on their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. The UN agency estimated that Nigeria’s population has grown from 54.7 million in 1969 to 105.4 million in 1994 and 201.0 million in 2019. Of this 201 million, 44 percent or 88.44 million are between the ages of 0 and 14, while 32 percent, 64.32 are within the ages of 10 and 24.

The reports revealed that “reproductive rights are still out of reach for too many women, including the more than 200 million women who want to prevent a pregnancy but cannot access modern contraceptive information and services. Ultimately, almost all of the 4.3 billion people of reproductive age around the world today will have had inadequate access to sexual and reproductive health services at some point  In 1969 world population reached 3.6 billion, up about 1 billion from only 17 years earlier, leading to the establishment of UNFPA.

The UN agency has succeeded in reducing fertility rates worldwide by about 50 percent.  In the least developed countries, fertility was about six births per woman in 1969.

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The region is in the grip of a “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram’s Islamic uprising that has killed more than 20,000 people and left over two million displaced.

The UN said that they are “extremely concerned” for the 400,000 children trapped in the Borno state left largely inaccessible to aid agencies by the on-going seven-year uprising.

According to Unicef executive director, Anthony Lake “If they do not receive the treatment they need, one in five of these children will die.”

Fears for children in Maiduguri, the biggest city in Nigeria’s north east, were raised earlier this year.

Doctors Without Borders said in November that thousands of children already have died, including 10 to 25% of children admitted to its 110-bed Maiduguri emergency treatment centre.

Nigeria’s senate is investigating allegations that government agencies are diverting food aid that could help prevent those deaths.

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Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to free the girls, whose abduction almost two and a half years ago from the northeastern village of Chibok triggered international campaigns and piled pressure on his predecessor Goodluck Jonathan.

Nigeria would “welcome intermediaries such as U.N. outfits, to step in”, Buhari told U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York, a statement issued by the president’s office said.

Buhari last year said for the first time his government was ready to negotiate over the girls. In August said he would let the Islamist militant group choose a non-profit organization as an intermediary but the group has not commented on the proposal.

Any negotiations would be the first publicly known talks between the government and Boko Haram, whose seven-year insurgency to create an Islamic state in the northeast has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than two million.

“The challenge is in getting credible and bona fide leadership of Boko Haram to discuss with,” said Buhari.

Boko Haram pledged allegiance to Islamic State last year but signs of a rift emerged after IS announced a new leader for what it described as its West African operations. Boko Haram’s hitherto leader Abubakar Shekau appeared to contradict the appointment in a later video message.

“The split in the insurgent group is not helping matters. Government had reached out, ready to negotiate, but it became difficult to identify credible leaders,” said the president.

Nigeria’s failure to find the kidnapped children prompted an outcry at home and abroad. Critics of Buhari’s predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, said his government was too slow to act.

Boko Haram published a video in August which apparently showed recent footage of dozens of the girls and stated that some had been killed in air strikes.

Authorities said in May that one of the missing girls had been found and the president vowed to rescue the others.

Nigeria is battling the jihadist group on the ground and with air strikes. A multi-national joint task force – comprising troops from Nigeria and neighboring Niger, Cameroon, Chad and Benin – is also fighting the militants.

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thousand refugees into neighbouring Cameroon, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has reported.

Speaking to journalists at a press briefing in Geneva few months ago, UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards said Cameroonian authorities had observed a steady flow of refugees streaming in through the “extremely volatile” border regions of Makaria, Logone Birni and Fotokol, just south of Lake Chad, rendering them vulnerable to attacks from the Nigerian insurgent group, Boko Haram.

Clashes between Boko Haram and Nigerian Government forces have intensified in recent weeks as fighting has spilled across borders and become increasingly regionalized. During the past few weeks alone, the group has also perpetrated deadly attacks against civilians in Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

Mr. Edwards noted that UNHCR was already planning daily transfers of 2,000 refugees to Minawao, where there is an established refugee camp currently hosting more than 32,600 and where urgent shelter and sanitation construction is under way. At the camp, he added, UNHCR would also be providing basic relief aid, such as blankets, kitchen sets and soap.

From May 23 to May 24, hundreds of countries, companies and philanthropists will converge on Istanbul, Turkey, for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit. The summit has been widely described as an unprecedented effort aimed at revamping humanitarian aid and global responses to modern-day crises and finding practical solutions to the global humanitarian challenges.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the summit was convened as part of efforts to tackle what he described as “the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II’’.

He said that the summit must usher in new era of global solidarity, adding that its main goal was to reaffirm the society’s commitment to humanity and humanitarian principles.
“We must not fail the people who need us, particularly when they need us most. First, the best way to achieve a bold and courageous change is to make sure that leaders are there to deliver it.

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She succeeds former secretary general Jerome Valcke, who was banned from football-related activity for 12 years.

Samoura, 54, spent 21 years working for the United Nations and will start at football’s governing body in June.

 

“It is essential Fifa incorporates fresh perspectives as we continue to restore and rebuild our organisation,” said Fifa president Gianni Infantino.

“She has a proven ability to build and lead teams, and improve the way organisations perform. Importantly for Fifa, she also understands that transparency and accountability are at the heart of any well-run and responsible organisation.”

 

 

Samoura’s appointment, announced at Fifa’s congress in Mexico City, completes a new-look to an organisation which has been dogged by corruption allegations under Valcke and previous president Sepp Blatter.

 

Blatter, who had led Fifa since 1998, stood down last year and was later suspended from football for six years for breaching ethics guidelines.

 

On his appointment in February, Infantino said he would “work tirelessly to bring football back to Fifa and Fifa back to football”.

Samoura, who will undergo an eligibility check before her role is ratified, currently works for the UN in Nigeria, and speaks four languages.

She started her UN career as a senior logistics officer with the World Food Programme in Rome in 1995 and has since served as country representative or director in six African countries, including Nigeria.

 

She said “Today is a wonderful day for me, and I am honoured to take on this role,This role is a perfect fit for my skills and experience – strategic, high-impact team building in international settings – which I will use to help grow the game of football all over the world.

I also look forward to bringing my experience in governance and compliance to bear on the important reform work that is already underway at Fifa.

“Fifa is taking a fresh approach to its work – and I am eager to play a role in making that approach as effective and lasting as possible.”

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The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Fatima Atiku Abubakar who flagged off the programme says more than 800,000 children in the state are malnourished, noting that 38 percent of children are under 5 years of age.

UNICEF field officer, Dr Abudullahi Kaikai said  UNICEF has supported the treatment of 31,415 children from June 2011 till date in the state.

They have been able to do this through the provision of Ready-to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), Training, supportive Supervision and monitoring.

Kaikai said that an additional  682,823 children also received Vitamin A Supplements.

UNICEF  nutrition specialist, Philomena Irene disclosed  that UNICEF has provided clinics around the state to treat  children who lost their mothers during child birth and victims of insurgency.

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In a tribute, Mr. Ban expressed his deep personal condolences, saying: “While her life was short, her legacy will be long. Raquelina was more than a teenager from Mozambique; she was the embodiment of why the world needs to invest in the health, well-being and future of young women everywhere.

With her passionate drive and expansive heart, she achieved a depth of character that most people, no matter their age, may never attain.”

Raquelina was a young Mozambican woman, then in grade 10, who in May 2013, during a visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to her school, Matheus Samsão Muthemba School in Polana Caniço, Maputo, Mozambique, asked, if “a girl could become Secretary-General” and, if so, what she needed to do to achieve that goal.

Impressed by the question, Mr. Ban invited her to come to UN Headquarters in New York as his special guest for a day. Sponsored by UN Women, the visit materialized on 12 August 2014, International Youth Day.

“We would like to convey our condolences institutionally, and personally, for those who knew Raquelina,” said Florence Raes, UN Women Representative in Mozambique.

“We will continue to honour her memory by pursuing her dream, bringing about broader access to education for girls as well as secure environments free of violence, so that any girl—whether vulnerable, disenfranchised or from the south—could aspire to one day be the United Nations Secretary-General.

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