By Agency Report In response to a growing emergency, the European Union has pledged a humanitarian aid package of €500,000, equivalent to over 900 million naira, aimed at supporting children and mothers who are severely affected by acute malnutrition, particularly in the worst-hit regions of northern Nigeria. An estimated 5.44 million children under the age […]
BY ADA DIKE Many children and pregnant women in Nigeria currently face acute malnutrition due to high cost of foodstuffs. The problem is nationwide. For instance, a woman fainted in Lagos on Tuesday this week, because she didn’t eat food for one half days. The prices of yam, beans, garri and other foodstuffs are expensive […]
Malnutrition is one of the world’s major public health and development concerns. In Nigeria, the situation is dire. Currently, UNICEF says 5 in 10 children under five years old suffer from the effects of being malnourished. This has an overarching impact on the lives, future and productivity of Nigerian children. DOOSUUR IWAMBE in this report […]
*Seek for prompt release of funding for nutrition to address crises By Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja Nutrition experts in the country have disclosed that Malnutrition is currently the biggest threat to child survival and development in north-eastern part of the country. To this end, the experts advocate the need for increased budgetary allocation, prompt release of […]
The federal government said it has approved a five-year nutrition action plan aimed at reducing hunger and malnutrition across the country, Daily Times gathered. This was disclosed by the spokesmen to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, saying the the plan was approved by the National Council on Nutrition which is chaired by the Vice President Yemi […]
ADDIS ABABA – African countries have made progress toward eradicating malnutrition and stunting but need to do more to hit United Nations malnutrition targets by 2025. This was the main message of a meeting that took place during the 33rd African Union Summit. Speakers at a meeting of the African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN) included […]
Nigeria has been listed as the leading country with the highest number of child death to pneumonia globally. According to statistics by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 19% of child deaths were due to pneumonia in 2018, and it was the biggest killer of children under-five in 2017 in Nigeria. In a statement made […]
The impact of malnutrition, particularly in the first one thousand days of a child’s life, is dire even if it is not fatal. Many infants and children who suffer from malnutrition are affected by stunting, recurrent infections or chronic diseases. In this report, DOOSUUR IWAMBE examines how RUTF saved 3-year-old child who was abandon by […]
The Federal Government has expressed concern over the increasing rate of malnutrition calling for concerted efforts to address it. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, said this on Monday when he flagged off the 2018 Nutrition Week aimed at increasing awareness on the dangers posed by malnutrition and serve as a […]
Journalists under the aegis of Journalists for Nutrition, (J4N) have tasked Kano state Government to redouble efforts at combating malnutrition and stunting in the state. The group, in a statement issued in Kano, on Wednesday said it is imperative for the state Government to mobilize traditional rulers, in waging the war against the disturbing situation. […]
Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Gandje has lamented that the lives of about half a million children are threatened by health cases that are related to malnutrition. The Governor decried the health challenge culminating in the large number of stunt children which is now rampant in the state, describing the situation as disturbing and […]
A Group, under the aegis of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), has called on the Kano state government to step up efforts towards addressing malnutrition cases in the state as figures shows Kano has the highest number of malnutrition cases numbering about 1.4 million. The group made the call during a round table dialogue, […]
Empower 54, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the eradication of malnutrition in Africa, has partnered with traditional rulers and local government council chairmen in Edo State in the distribution of medication to improve the health of 271,000 children and pregnant women. The medications to be distributed are Albendazol, which is very critical for the treatment […]
The United Nations Children’s fund (UNICEF), has partnered the Bayelsa state government to reduce the high level of malnutrition among mothers and children in the state. The Deputy Director Food and Nutrition (MB&NP), Abuja, Roselyn Gabriel, disclosed this Yesterday, during a stakeholder meeting held at the State Banquet Hall, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The event […]
Promasidor Nigeria Limited, makers of Cowbell Milk, has boosted Modupe Ozolua’s fight against malnutrition in Africa by donating to Empower 54 Project in support of its programme aimed at eradicating malnutrition among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. The donation which took place recently, the donor said would in no small measure help to boost […]
Promasidor Nigeria Limited, maker of Cowbell, Loya Milk, Top Tea and Onga, has donated cases of various products to Empower 54 Project in support of its programme aimed at eradicating malnutrition among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. The donation done on Friday, would in no small measure help to boost the worthy initiative of […]
To ensure optimal growth, development and health of every child in the country, healthcare professionals have recommended ways Nigeria could effectively tackle the menace of child malnutrition which a new survey says has worsened. The officially released results of the Fifth Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS5), conducted in 2016 and 2017, shows that malnutrition among […]
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, is partnering with Empower 54, an NGO, in creating awareness and eradicating malnutrition in Africa, which currently kills 2.3 million children annually in Nigeria. Empower’s President, Princess Modupe Ozolua, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the monarch would work with Empower via his Global Outreach […]
To boost child survival in Nigeria particularly children under the age of five, physicians in the country, have been urged to pay adequate attention to the nutritional needs of infants rather than focus only on their medical needs whenever they are brought to the hospital for medical attention. This is critical to reducing the high […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged state governors to ensure that they pay all the salaries owed workers before Christmas, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. The president gave the charge on Monday, when he met with the governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Many states are still owing workers several months of salaries and […]