Rising insecurity threatening children's future — UNICEF, NGE, DAME
*Urge FG to declare child welfare emergency STAKEHOLDERS at a UNICEF-Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, and DAME symposium, have warned that Nigeria's worsening child welfare indicators require urgent action, citing widening disparities in access to water, education, health, and protection. At the symposium, which featured representatives from UNICEF, government ministries, media executives, and civil society, they all agreed that Nigeria must accelerate reforms to protect children amid rising insecurity and declining social services. Speaking, President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, Mr Eze Anaba, said Nigeria is in a "state of emergency" over the worsening conditions affecting children, citing rising insecurity, school disruptions, and weak health and education outcomes. Anaba said: "If we did not know before, we should know now. At no other time in our history, except during the Civil War, has the condition of our children been this uncertain. The bloodshed...