By Sonnie Ekwowusi
Most of us grew up, or were raised, under the illusion that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (originally named the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) promotes the well-being of children in line with its stated objectives. However, any student of history who has consistently monitored the activities of UNICEF over the years—especially in developing countries—would readily attest that UNICEF has, in fact, been waging an insidious war against the world’s children.
UNICEF has been corrupting African children by teaching them how to perform abortions, how to masturbate, and how to have so-called “safe sex” without consequences. It indoctrinates children with the belief that religious instructions forbidding teenage sex are mere myths.
This is why the Trump administration has recently refused to endorse the 2026–2029 UNICEF Strategic Plan, which it says contains harmful LGBT ideology, sexualization of children, and the promotion of contraceptives among children. On 12 September 2025, Donald Trump stood alone at the United Nations (which has even developed an LGBT-themed postage stamp) and voted against UN Women’s three-year strategic plan to promote LGBT and gender ideology.
You will recall that Trump dismantled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for allegedly sponsoring Boko Haram in Nigeria and other places. Recently, Trump ordered the destruction of $10 million worth of abortifacient birth control pills, intrauterine devices (IUDs), and hormonal implants that were meant to be freely distributed among African women, including Nigerian women, by USAID as part of population reduction programmes in Africa. These birth control products were stockpiled by USAID during the administration of former Joe Biden to be given to women in African countries, including Nigeria. But today, the Trump administration, committed to protecting the lives of unborn children in Africa and all over the world, has ordered the destruction of these dangerous abortifacient products.
In contrast, the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja is still stockpiling abortifacient birth control pills, intrauterine devices, and hormonal implants, which it freely distributes among Nigerian women to reduce the country’s population. I have repeatedly said that the Federal Ministry of Health is long overdue for a complete shake-up and reform.
I am a regular visitor to the Federal Ministry of Health office located at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja, and what constantly assaults my eyes are cartons of dangerous abortifacient birth control pills, intrauterine devices, and hormonal implants stockpiled at its offices. The Federal Ministry of Health has even printed vasectomy (sterilization of boys and men) and tubal ligation (sterilization of girls and women) booklets, which it uses to embark on campaigns across Nigeria to get men and women sterilized. The Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, must be an evil institution.
Imagine a country such as Nigeria, where the majority of the people do not have easy access to basic primary healthcare, yet the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja is mainly focused on getting Nigerian men and women sterilized, all in the name of population reduction. As I said earlier, the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja is long overdue for a complete shake-up.
Back to Trump, UNICEF, and the sexualization of children: Faced with mounting criticisms—especially a recent report that exposed sexually explicit programs on UNICEF’s website targeting children—the agency has now removed sexual images and curricula from its website. Among the materials it pulled down was a Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) program directed at children in Ukraine.
The curriculum, titled “Adulthood Without Secrets,” designed for children ages 10–14, explains the supposed fluidity of one’s sexual orientation during life, including identifying as homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, or asexual. In the section on “sex and relationships,” sex is defined as “one of the ways people interact, when they express their feelings for each other through physical contact.” Sex is described as something that is an “important part of a relationship” that “helps express intimate feelings and togetherness between partners” and can “strengthen relationships.”
Children are instructed on the “criteria” for “good sex,” which is defined as “sex during which you derive pleasure from all the processes and reach orgasm,” and they are also taught about the necessity of foreplay.
In recent years, Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) has been rejected in many countries. Why? Because its content teaches school children how to indulge in masturbation, abortion, and LGBT practices. In fact, over the years, UNICEF has faced growing criticism for promoting sexualization programs for children under its euphemistic phrase “sexual and reproductive health and rights” agenda.
But this has not stopped UNICEF or other United Nations agencies from implementing it in country programs—often in partnership with groups like the International Planned Parenthood Federation or, in the case of Nigeria, with the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja.
Now, the Trump administration has done the needful. It has refused to endorse the 2026–2029 UNICEF Strategic Plan because it contains harmful LGBT ideology, sexualization of children, and promotion of contraceptives among children.
Agreed, UNICEF promotes some laudable projects for the well-being of children. But the problem is that those good projects are so mixed up with LGBT ideology, abortion, teen masturbation, teen transgenderism, teen sexual “rights,” and teen contraceptives that UNICEF is unwilling to remove these controversial elements from its otherwise laudable programs. Instead, UNICEF imposes both the good projects and the LGBT ideology, abortion, teen masturbation, teen transgenderism, teen sexual “rights,” and contraceptives wholesale on developing countries.
“The United States strongly supports the work that UNICEF does to help children around the world, but we cannot endorse a plan that contains elements that are at odds with U.S. policy,”
said U.S. representative Jonathan Shrier.
However, the Trump administration insists that UNICEF should focus on its primary responsibility of protecting children and fostering their education, health, and well-being, and should stop giving children LGBT ideology, contraceptives, masturbation, transgenderism, abortion, and sexual “rights.”
Can you imagine UNICEF promoting teen LGBT ideology, abortion, teen masturbation, teen transgenderism, teen sexual “rights,” and teen contraceptives in poverty-stricken Thailand or war-ravaged Ukraine? What a shame. Instead of supplying Ukrainian children with food, milk, and other relief materials for their well-being, UNICEF is offering them masturbation, transgender, sexual “rights,” and teen contraceptive services.
A 2024 UNICEF brochure tells 15-year-olds that “it is normal to feel sympathy or attraction to members of your own or the opposite sex…” and that “masturbation is perfectly acceptable in relationships, both alone and with partners.” The brochure also says that masturbation may be “surrounded by myths, but it is actually a way to relieve stress, satisfy arousal, and explore your body, sexuality, and desires.” UNICEF tells children, “Only through experiments can you understand what really brings pleasure to you and your partner.”
UNICEF even lists “anal sex” as just another sex act that children should be familiar with:
“Sex happens… oral — stimulation of the genitals with the tongue or lips; vaginal — involves penetration of the vagina with a penis, fingers, or sex toys; anal — during which the penis penetrates the anus, fingers, or sex toys.”
Another UNICEF brochure tells 10-year-olds in JSS1–JSS3:
“Foreplay and caressing touch help you to relax, feel comfortable, and increase sexual arousal… In order to understand what caressing you and your partner like, you need to talk about it.”
The same brochure teaches the children that phrases like “traditional or non-traditional orientation” are incorrect, stating that “all types of sexual orientation are natural.”
Coming back home to Nigeria, UNICEF is reportedly teaching mothers and children in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps how to perform abortions, masturbate, exercise their sexual “rights,” and take various harmful contraceptives. I recall that many years ago, UNICEF—ostensibly authorized by the Federal Government—went to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp in Lagos to distribute condoms to the hapless youth corps members.
UNICEF arrived at the camp in the morning with a big truck bearing the inscription Condom. Thereafter, all the corps members were instructed to form a single file. They did. Then the UNICEF staffers began distributing condoms to them free of charge. Paradoxically, that same evening, a male corps member and a female corps member were caught by NYSC security agents misbehaving with the condoms. The next day, the NYSC camp authorities met and expelled the two corps members from the camp.
The logical question at the time was: If UNICEF gave the corps members condoms to misbehave with, why expel the two corps members for misbehaving with them? Obviously, UNICEF cannot commit this kind of wrong in its home country. But because Nigeria is treated as a dumping ground for all kinds of toxic materials, any foreign NGO can freely come to Nigeria, commit all kinds of crimes, and get off scot-free. For example, Marie Stopes, a UK-based abortion NGO, is in Nigeria running abortion clinics in almost all the states of the federation. Marie Stopes lures underage girls into their clinics to be given abortifacient injections without the consent of their parents.
Acting on a petition written by a parent, some policemen went and sealed off one Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Lagos. The police handcuffed the abortion doctor (name withheld) on duty at that time and took him to their police station.
The most tragic part is that almost all the good English literature books—such as Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Weep Not Child, Things Fall Apart, Zambia Shall Be Free, The Man Died, African Child, Akin the Drummer Boy, Mine Boy, The Gods Are Not to Blame, Gulliver’s Travels, Around the World in Eighty Days, Allan Quatermain, King Solomon’s Mines, and Eze Goes to School—which most Nigerian adults read in public secondary schools in the 70s, 80s, and even mid-90s, have been removed from the curriculum and replaced with sex-related textbooks and English literature books.
These sex-related English literature books, containing lewd subject matter, have been introduced into the curriculum to give unsuspecting young school pupils the wrong impression that self-control is unnecessary, repressive, and impossible; that casual sex makes them feel good; that they should engage in casual sex before marriage; that “safe sex” is the goal in life provided they don’t get pregnant—and if they do, they should procure abortions as soon as possible.
For example, one of the speakers at the Regional World Congress of Families held at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos, from March 27 to 29, 2017, was Ahmed Akanbi. Ahmed is a parent and a Lagos-based legal practitioner.
Midway through his presentation, Ahmed did something that shocked most of the conference participants. He carefully dipped his hand into his bag, brought out two English literature books containing some lewd subject matter, and showed them to the participants. He told them that the two books were recommended for Primary Six pupils in the school attended by his daughter.
The title of the first book, authored by Oyekunle Oyedeji, is Tears of a Bride, while the second book, written by Queen O. Okweshine, is titled Precious Child.
According to Ahmed, his 9-year-old daughter in Primary Six came back home from school one day and engaged him in a conversation about some sexual experiences. At first, Ahmed was utterly stunned. But after he regained his composure, he asked his daughter where she learned about those sexual experiences. It was then she narrated how their school teacher had been using the two books to teach them how to practice “safe sex” and how to gain sexual pleasure.
Ahmed read aloud some sexual portions of the two books to the hearing of the participants, who rose to their feet in utter shock.
A society reaps what it sows. If our school children are taught in open classrooms that self-control is unnecessary, repressive, and impossible, and that casual sex, masturbation, and LGBT practices make them feel good—all in the name of sex education—then we are ruined as a people.
Consequently, we must protect our children from the bad influence of UNICEF. Did you know that UNICEF spends hundreds of millions of dollars promoting explicit—even pornographic—sexual content for children around the world? And we are letting them operate unchecked in Nigeria.
Did you know that the National Sexuality Education Curriculum, which was developed by the National Council on Education, is modeled after the book Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Nigeria published by Action Health Incorporated (AHI), a Lagos-based NGO? And this AHI book is an adaptation of the 1991 Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education produced by Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) in New York. And we are still allowing this so-called National Sexuality Education Curriculum to be used in Nigeria.
Small wonder Malam Adamu Adamu, former Minister of Education, had directed the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to expunge sex education from the school curriculum in Nigeria, noting that sex education should be left in the hands of parents and religious institutions and not taught in schools in a manner that would further corrupt little children who are already exposed to all sorts of sexual perversions on their mobile phones and electronic gadgets.
The Minister stated that his action was informed by the fact that, in Nigeria’s religious and cultural setting, the morals and values imparted to children by their parents and religious institutions are the superstructure for moulding their character and building our national ethos.
Current Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, should follow the good example of his predecessor in office and direct that sex education or CSE should not be taught in Nigerian secondary schools because it corrupts the morals of students.
Rather than teaching unsuspecting young school kids in Nigeria sex education or CSE, they should be taught moral/religious instruction, civic education, history, basic hygiene, and basic cleanliness. Nigerian parents should be reminded—perhaps for the umpteenth time—that parents are the first and most important educators of their children and possess a fundamental competence in this area: they are educators because they are parents.
Therefore, no UN agency or NGO has a right to teach our children anything in school that goes against the faith and morals of their parents.
I know a government secondary school (name withheld) along Eric Moore Street, Surulere, Lagos, where hired teachers (paid ₦20,000 each) came to an open classroom with rubber penises and rubber vaginas and demonstrated to the school pupils how to wear condoms. Is this not criminal?
This reminds me: some Nigerian pro-abstinence NGOs took some distributors of condoms in Nigeria to court a couple of years ago on the ground that abstinence, not condoms, offers 100% protection against HIV. I remember I was the lawyer for the plaintiff pro-abstinence NGOs in that matter. Anyway, the pro-abstinence NGOs won the case. A copy of the court’s judgment is lodged in our law firm. No appeal has been filed by the defendants to date.
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