The Representative of the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Ms. Christian Munduate, has called on media practitioners to be more thorough in reporting issues relating to children.
Munduate made the call on Saturday in Lagos at a symposium organised by UNICEF in collaboration with the Nigerian Guild of Editors
The symposium was part of activities to mark the 2024 World Children’s Day and had the theme, “Reinforcing the Role of Media in Mainstream Child Rights.”
The UNICEF Nigeria Representative cited grim data on the state of Nigerian children, saying that one in two children live in poverty and 41 newborns out of 1,000 births do not survive due to complications and teenage pregnancies.
Muduate added that 2.1 million children were unvaccinated, and one in five households engaged in open defecation among the poorest households.
She explained that while UNICEF provided critical data on children’s welfare, “the real impact comes from the power of communication in engaging communities.
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