Children, they say, are the light of the world. Lagos and Ibadan were indeed lit up on May 27th as Nigeria’s No. 1 Malt drink, Maltina, hosted hundreds of children and their parents to a memorable Children’s Day party, in line with the brand’s mission to nourish precious family moments and spread happiness.

Speaking about the event, excited guest, Yemisi Adekola said: “Being able to hang out with my kids away from the stress of work and all that is such a fantastic experience. I can’t remember the last time we did this as a family and I’m so glad I didn’t pass on this opportunity. This was indeed a wonderful experience and I can’t thank Maltina enough.”

The families got to enjoy fun activities like face-painting, sack races, carousel rides, Tug of War, board games, puzzles, foosball, and lots of other exciting side attractions. They also got to hang out with the Maltina’s Happy the Mascot.

Winners of some of these games got to walk away with amazing gifts like a laptop, giant teddy bear, Maltina goody bags, bicycles and lots more.

Maltina is the first locally produced malt drink in Nigeria and is fortified with vitamins and calcium for healthy families.

Gentlemen of the press!

First and foremost let me appreciate our father President Muhammadu Buhari, his wife, our dearest mother, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and the security agencies for rescuing two (2) of the over 200 abducted Chibok girls. This is the best Children’s Day gift for we the Nigerian children especially the girl child. We hope and pray that very soon, all the abducted girls would have been rescued and reunited with their parent.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EAGMR) indicates that Nigeria holds the world record of having the highest number of its young people out of school. With approximately 10.5 million kids out of school, Nigeria tops the table of 12 other countries, accounting for 47 per cent of the global out-of-school population.

A whopping 40% of Nigerian children aged 6-11 do not attend any primary school with the Northern region recording the lowest school attendance rate in the country, particularly for girls. Although it is believed that a significant increase in net enrolment rates was recorded in the recent years, it is estimated that about 4.7 million children of primary school age are still not in school in Nigeria.

The Nigeria situation is even compounded by the devastating impacts of the Boko Haram insurgency giving rise to the uprooting and displacement of children from known environment to unknown environments where a large number has further dropped out of school.

Goal 4 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals commits to ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for all. On its part, Little Miss Nigeria Project (LMNP) has marked out campaign for inclusive quality education as one of strategies for attainment of building “A Nigeria based on inclusive growth and sustainable development”.

As we celebrate this year Children’s Day, I call on government at all levels, civil society organizations and international organizations to support my project CHILD Street-To-School Campaign. Please sacrifice your today so that we your children can have a better tomorrow.

HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY TO ALL NIGERIAN CHILDREN!

Queen Precious Onwuka

2016 Little Miss Nigeria

NOTE - Children’s Day is celebrated yearly on May 27th in Nigeria. To mark this year’s celebration, President Muhammadu Buhari reassured Nigerian children and youth that his administration remain fully committed to fulfilling their promise of a better Nigeria for all them. READ HERE

He noted that the good health and well-being of Nigerian children remain top priorities on their agenda for national development and they have demonstrated their strong commitment in this regard with the allocation of N12.6 billion in the 2016 budget for vaccines and programes to prevent childhood killer diseases, such as polio, measles and yellow fever.

COLOSSUS GISTS Team in celebrating this year’s Children’s Day brings you 7 very interesting facts about today.

1. The United Nations Universal Children’s Day 2014 falls on 20 November and it is a specially designated event to foster understanding between children and to promote international togetherness and awareness among children.

2. Universal Children’s Day was first declared a special day by the World Conference for the well-being of children in 1925 and then established internationally in 1954.

3. The UN General Assembly on 14 December 1954 recommended that all countries should introduce an annual event for children to encourage fraternity and understanding between children world-wide and it was recommended that individual member nations choose an appropriate date.

4. Nigeria celebrates its National Children’s Day on May 27, but the date for differ for other countries. US celebrates hers on the second Sunday of June, Germany on September 20th, Brazil on October 12, South Africa on the first Saturday of November , Congo and Cameroon on Christmas Day/December 25.

5. To mark the day in Nigeria, some primary and secondary school students are select participate in a march past.

6. The children are usually given treats such as an outing or doing jobs that adults would normally do. For instance, the main news of many TV and radio stations are presented by children.

7. Many religious, private and public organizations usually put together children’s party for privileged and less privileged children in a bid to give them a sense of belonging.

Children! Children!! Children!!! whether you like it or not and you're alive and born of a woman, then your a child or once a child....hahahaha!!! Anyways! Its children’s day everyone and to mark this year’s Children’s day celebration, COLOSSUS GISTS brings you this very nostalgic post that will bring you all the fond memories of your childhood in Nigeria.

This was what was in vogue long before the advent of colored TVs and flat screens. Anyone who had this in their house was considered rich. Anyone who owned one never had fresh air in their sitting rooms as their windows were always blocked because there were always kids clustered there, viewing whatever was on showing on TV.

Which  80’s or 90’s kid didn’t use this in school? Absolutely none.

Cassettes were the shiznit then! Home videos came in cassette those days until CDs came and drove them into extinction.

This was used to rewind cassettes. It was known as a manual or hand rewinder. It also went into extinction with his boss, that is the cassette.

A pair of these on, you are probably headed to somewhere really special. You don’t wear Kitto and head out to play in the sand. You would be considered a ‘money miss road’ if you try it.

Remember when your mom would dish everyone’s food in separate plates and start calling everyone by their names to come get their food? There was nothing, absolutely nothing different from this and the register called in school.

Who Is In The Garden: Here, the children make a big circle, starting with singing “form a big circle”. After that, the anchor then stays in the middle and runs in the circle singing, “ Who is in the garden a little fine boy/ girl( depending on the s*x of the child) can I come and see him/ her, then everybody then responds “No” “No” “No”  , then the anchor someone else and says “follow me”. This cycle is repeated until the last person remains, then others go in hiding while the last person goes searching for them.