Promote Children-Related Issues, UNICEF Urges Journalists 

The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged practicing journalists in Kano, Jigawa and Katsina States to promote issues that will protect and promote children in the states.
The Chief, UNICEF, Kano Field Office, Rahama Mohammed Farah, made the call recently during a two-day Enhancing Capacity Workshop for Media organised by Abubakar Rimi Television (ARTV) and supported by UNICEF.
Represented by UNICEF Communication Specialist, Mr. Samuel Kalu,  Farah said children are facing a lot of challenges, particularly on issues relating to health and education, including the right to survive like everyone else, “which has caused so many negative effects in their lives.”
According to him, “The media is a strong tool to make better change; have a vital role to play and save thousands of lives of children who are suffering from malnutrition, out of school,  early marriage and many other threats.”
Farah stated that UNICEF was doing all its best by partnering the media to protect and promote issues relating to children’s survival in better condition.
In her remarks, the Director-General, ARTV, Hajiya Sa’a Ibrahim, who was represented by the Director of Programme and Production, Alhaji Yusha’u Hamza, said the workshop was aimed at enhancing the capacity of participants on professional journalism, ethics and principles in reporting children.
Reminding the participating Journalists of the children’s mandate on them, she expressed hopes that the workshop would yield its intended results.