Russia on Thursday reprimanded the head of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF for not providing a "weighty argument for her refusal" to brief the Security Council on children in Gaza - a meeting requested by Russia.

The award-winning pictures show sad and hopeful moments of children reminding us of "our common task: to stand up for the well-being of children worldwide," says UNICEF.

Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year -- roughly one in seven students, the UN children's agency reported Thursday, deploring what it said was an "overlooked" aspect of the climate crisis.

The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF, has identified learning poverty and the high number of out-of-school children as critical education challenges in Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa states.

Kano alone accounts for 989,234 out-of-school children, while Katsina and Jigawa have 536,112 and 337,861 respectively. Farah added that in Kano, 32 per cent of primary school-age children are not attending school.

The United Nations Children's Fund has decried alarming the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria's North-West region with unpleasant statistics from Katsina, Kano and Jigawa states.

Cristian Munduate, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), representative has said that to address the challenges of nutrition, health and education across