"The ending of slaughter and export of donkey products for the skin trade in 56 countries across two continents . would be a huge milestone on the road to ending the global donkey skin trade.”
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Pitiably, the nation’s duty bearers are still lamenting the plight of Nigerian children, instead of presenting positive score cards! This is particularly shameful given that it is 58 years after the country started celebrating Children’s Day, having started on May 27, 1964.
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This year’s Children’s Day has been formally observed, but critical issues affecting the welfare of children in Nigeria linger, begging for urgent attention.
Children are the future of nations. Sadly in Nigeria, that future is being steadily dealt with deadly blows: Schools are being shut for insecurity, schooling is expensive where available, parents are incapacitated by economic depression aided by COVID-19, school curriculum is aghast with policy somersault and lack of alignment with employment realities, and there are no jobs after hard schooling. x
Indeed, millions of Nigerian children continue to be left behind and their rights denied, because they still lack access to good education, adequate nutrition and quality healthcare, not discounting those caught in conflict. Thousands of children are discriminated against or living in precarious situations of vulnerability such as conflict and humanitarian emergency; not forgetting children