Tag: Exclusive Breastfeeding

Globally, 3 in 5 babies are not breastfed in the first hour of life – UN

Aminu Imam

By Musa Tijjani Only 44 percent of infants are exclusively breastfed by their mothers in the first six months, which falls far short of the global targets of 50 percent by 2025. The officer-in-charge (OIC), UNICEF Field Office Kano, Mr. Micheal Banda, stated this during the media dialogue organised by UNICEF in collaboration with Abubakar Rimi Television Kano, to commemorate the World Breastfeeding Week 2021, at Tahir Guest Palace, Kano State. Banda said breastfeeding plays an important role in the life of the child, “…and experts assert that the first…

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Exclusive Breastfeeding: FCT rural communities list challenges

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Some residents in the rural communities of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have identified economic challenge as one of the factors affecting their compliance to exclusive breastfeeding. In separate interviews on Friday in Abuja, they stated their different experiences and views on exclusive breastfeeding, as the 2021 World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) runs from Aug. 1 to Aug. 7 with the theme “Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility.” Mrs Sandra Danjuma, a trader in Galadimawa, who blamed her noncompliance to exclusive breastfeeding to economic challenges, said they could not afford proper meal…

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UNICEF calls for collective effort to promote exclusive breastfeeding

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has called on stakeholders to collaborate and promote exclusive breastfeeding to save lives of children. The Officer in charge of Kano Field Office of the organisation, Mr Micheal Banda, made the call on Wednesday at a one day media dialogue to celebrate ‘The World Breastfeeding Week’. Banda explained that governments, donors, civil society and the private sector, owed it a duty to step up and make smart investments and commitments towards tackling the global malnutrition crisis. “They must also demonstrate action, by making tangible…

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APC controlled states propose 6 months maternity leave, exclusive breastfeeding

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde In a move to promote a framework for promoting child nutrition, Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) controlled states have proposed to implement six months maternity leave as well as exclusive breastfeeding for children from birth, stressing the importance of exclusive breastfeeding to the growth and general health of a child. The proposal was contained in a communiqué issued Thursday in Abuja at the end of a virtual meeting of Secretaries to State Governments of APC-controlled states held under the auspices of the Progressive Governors’ Forum…

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