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72% of Nigeria’s health budget spent on salaries, running offices in 11 years

NIGERIA has spent 72 per cent of its health sector budgets to pay salaries and run offices in the...

2m people at risk of female genital mutilation due to COVID-19, say UNICEF, UNFPA

NO fewer than two million additional cases of female genital mutilation have been projected to occur over the next...
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UNFPA commissions expanded fistula care centre in Sokoto 

THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has commissioned the rehabilitated Goronyo General Hospital operating theatre and patient ward in...

4.1 million girls at risk of female genital mutilation – UN

THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says about 4.1 million girls are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)...
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More than a third of women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence , says UN

MORE than a third of women worldwide have experienced either physical or sexual violence at some point in their lives,...

UN Calls For End To Female Genital Mutilation, Marks Zero Tolerance Day

The United Nations has again called on government at all levels, civil society organisations, as well as traditional and religious leaders to join together and end the scourge of Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting in Nigeria.
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