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WFP earmarks $2.5b to fight hunger, malnutrition in Nigeria

Alleviating poverty and human misery - By Fernando Ocáriz

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says it has budgeted 2.5 billion dollars in the 2023 to-2027  Nigeria Country Strategy Plans (CSP) geared towards achieving zero hunger and improved nutrition across the country. Mr Seriene Loum, Head of Programme, WFP said this at the Co-creation workshop organised by the organisation in collaboration with National Social … Read more

Bitting effects of hunger forced me to sell my son for N1.5m-Moth

Bitting effects of hunger forced me to sell my son for N1.5m-Moth

A 22-year-old woman, Faith Sunday, nabbed in Lagos for child trafficking, has confessed to having sold her one-year-old for N1.5 million to save herself from dying as a result of hunger. Faith was arrested along with seven other members of a child-trafficking syndicate by detectives from the headquarters of Zone 2 Police Command … Read more

Find lasting solution to hunger, hardship, southern traditional rulers

Find lasting solution to hunger, hardship, southern traditional rulers

Traditional rulers from Southern Nigeria have advised President Bola Tinubu Federal Government, to as a matter of urgency, address hunger and economic hardship in the country. This is as the monarchs predicted a brighter future for Nigeria in 2025. The royal fathers who spoke on the heels of the recent stampedes during the … Read more

PDP hammers Tinubu, insists food stampedes confirm alarming

PDP hammers Tinubu, insists food stampedes confirm alarming

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the three recent food stampedes in Nigeria as “an ugly testament to the alarming level of misery, poverty, hunger, starvation, sense of hopelessness and desperation for survival currently plaguing our nation” under the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government. In a statement on Sunday, … Read more