Opinion

High costs of food and prevailing hunger in Nigeria: A call for democratic control of Agriculture

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 9 December 2024 0

By Dooyum Naadzenga Nigeria faces an alarming rise in chronic hunger and food insecurity. Millions of households, particularly among the working class and poor farmers, are grappling with the harsh reality of starvation as food prices soar. Even middle-class families find it increasingly

Business

Hunger Crisis: Red Cross Society, Ecobank partner on intervention

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 22 February 2024 0

The Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) and Ecobank Nigeria have partnered to tackle the severe hunger crisis ravaging the country with a campaign for local resource mobilisation to support the Nigeria Hunger Crisis Appeal. Led by the secretary-general of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Dr. Abubakar Kende, both parties emphasised the urgent need for collective […]

News

2.6 Million Nigerians may go hungry in 2024 – FAO

Ihesiulo Grace 3 November 2023 0

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said that a staggering 2.6 million Nigerians in Borno, Sokoto, Zamfara States, and the FCT could potentially face a severe food crisis between June and August 2024. This alarming information was revealed by FAO’s country representative, Dominique Kouacou, during the presentation of the October to November round of […]

Politics

What Buhari said on SDGs in New York

Ihesiulo Grace 25 September 2019 0

President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech on reducing extreme poverty and hunger by his administration at the strategic High Level Event on the margins of the 74 Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Protocol It is my pleasure to be here with you to deliver this Keynote Address at this strategic High Level Event […]

News

African Child Day: Children experience more deprivation – Minister

Ihesiulo Grace 22 June 2018 0

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Jummai Aisha Alhassan has said that children experience more deprivations of their basic needs in the society than men and women saying hunger and poverty remains major concern for the African children. Hajia Jummai, speaking in Abuja on Thursday in a press briefing to commemorate the […]

News Nigeria

Alleged 700m fraud: Ize-Iyamu slams APC, recalls ordeal in prison

Ihesiulo Grace 1 June 2018 0

Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the 2016 Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has said the All Progressives Congress(APC), has betrayed the trust of Nigerians who voted them into power by infesting them with hunger, killings and untold hardship. Ize-Iyamu, made the allegation at the Solidarity Rally held in his honour and other […]

Nigeria Politics

APC chieftain, Timi Frank apologizes to ex-President Jonathan

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2018 0

… Says battered economy, injustice, killings, hunger reign supreme under Buhari A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, where he apologised to former President Goodluck Jonathan but lamented cases of Corruption, battered economy, killings, hunger and injustice under the

Opinion

Right and Wrong Ways of Choosing Leaders

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2015 0

It was Nikolai Gogol in his book, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, who said that ‘sharing thoughts, feelings and experiences is one of the greatest blessings of this life’. This statement was made by a dog in a letter it sent to another dog. The madman found this letter, when he heard the […]