Iara Oshiomhole, the wife of Edo state governor, has made a generous donation on behalf of the state government for the upkeep of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at their camp in Uhogua near Benin City. Vanguard reports that Mrs Oshiomhole visited the camp on Friday, September 18. She donated the sum of N2 million and presented clothes, footwear, …

A global humanitarian agency, Mercy Corps, has gone into partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to implement a project tagged: ‘Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE)’. Mercy Corps is the lead implementing partner for ENGINE, which is a multi donor-funded programme supported by DFID, Coca Cola Export Company and the …

2014 has been an important year in the fight against child poverty, and one that may make a difference for years to come. Here are 5 things we learned during the year: 1. It has become clear that children are heavily over-represented among the world’s extreme poor. Over 569 million children aged 18 or less are living on less than $1.25 a day. So while …

As the world enters into the 26th year of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Somalia has become the 194th state party to ratify the Convention, setting a course to improve the lives of its youngest citizens. “By ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the government of Somalia is making an investment in the wellbeing of its …

  (AP) — Pope Francis ended his Asian pilgrimage Sunday with an appeal for the future of the Catholic Church, urging an estimated 3 million rain-soaked Filipinos to protect their young from sin and vice so they can instead become missionaries of the faith. Francis marked an important Filipino feast day honoring the infant Jesus by dedicating …

  BY JOSEPH IGWE PROVIDE ANSWERS, NOT QUESTIONS There are so many questions lingering in the world today without answers, yet people keep on asking more questions. Isn’t it better for us to suspend further questions in order to have time to seek answers to the so many questions already hanging everywhere without answers? It is these unanswered questions …

  By GORDON BROWN 2014 was a bad year for children and education. My hope is that 2015 will be a tipping point in the other direction. And there is good reason to believe so. Outrage at the massacre of 132 children in Peshawar, Pakistan late last year has sparked a worldwide petition now signed by around 1.17 million people. The Avaaz movement …

The United Nations said on Tuesday that the latest wave of Boko Haram’s “vicious, ruthless attacks” in the north-eastern part of the country had sent 11,320 people fleeing into Chad in a matter of days. The Islamist group stormed the town of Baga on January 3, and subsequently razed it alongside at least 16 surrounding settlements. …