BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS. (PHOTOS).
BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS Benue State has taken a major step toward strengthening child protection and social welfare services with the graduation of 60 Auxiliary Social Workers (ASWs) trained to serve vulnerable children and families at the grassroots. The graduation ceremony, held on Wednesday, marked the successful completion of a programme jointly supported by the Benue State Government, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and the Benue State Bureau for International Cooperation and Development (BICD). Speaking at the event themed “Building Community Resilience Through Professional Auxiliary Social Work,” the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hon. Mrs. Theresa Apochi-Ikwue, described the initiative as a strategic response to gaps in child protection services across the state. She said the newly trained ASWs would...
Today makes it two years exactly when the missing Chibok school girls were adopted from their school in Borno,by members of the Boko Haram Islamist terrorist group.A new video that surfaced yesterday,showed some of the girls not all,looking matured {all grown up} and some of their parents have identified them as their children,raising hopes and global calls for efforts to find them.A video obtained by the U.S network CNN was shown to three mothers of the girls.About 15 featured in the new video,saying they were from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok and pleading with the Nigerian government to cooperate with Boko Haram on their release.The girls said they were being treated well but wanted to go home and be with their families.Rifkatu Ayuba and Mary Ishaya said they recognized their daughters,Saratu and Hauwa,in the video,while a third mother,Yana Galang,identified five of the missing girls.A CNN spokesman said the network had obtained the video from a source close to the negotiations after it was sent to negotiators by their captors as proof of life''.He said the video appeared to have been shot on December 25 last year because the girls say so in the video and the metadata also indicated this.Various false leads have raised hopes of finding the girls over the past two years but their whereabouts remains unknown.Boko Haram militants abducted 276 schoolgirls from Chibok on April 14,2014,of which 57 escaped but 219 are still missing despite a global campaign.More photos below. 
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