•Malnourished children and Shettima Vice President Kashim Shettima has raised alarm over the scale of malnutrition in Nigeria, warning that the condition is depriving nearly 40 per cent of children under the age of five of their full physical and cognitive potential. Speaking at the National Summit on Nutrition and Food Security held in Abuja,...
The ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED), and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, have called for strategic approaches to ameliorate the plights of almajiri and other children in the country. They made the call in separate statements yesterday on t...
•Biofortified maize Stakeholders have emphasised the need for a standardised policy governing the release of biofortified provitamin A maize to improve the nutritional standard and fight malnutrition in the country. They made this known at the validation workshop for the development of micronutrient standards for biofortified provitamin A and ...
•Bishop Kukah and Sultan of Sokoto The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, have called for new policies to tackle malnutrition, boost the well-being of pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers and children in the country. They made the call yesterday in Abuj...
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