Tag: Hunger

“Nigerians may be hungry, but we can manage our hunger”, Tinubu tells Buhari 

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has said though Nigerians may be hungry, the hunger can be managed, because President Muhammadu Buhari has created a path out of any hunger crisis. Tinubu, who eulogised Buhari yesterday, while speaking at a ceremony to flag-off the Kolmani Integrated Development Project (KIPRO), which is the first oil drilling project in Northern Nigeria, located at the Bauchi and Gombe States’ boundary, described the President as a retired general who came to rescue his country. Speaking at the event,…

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“If you are hungry, go to the farm” – Buhari tells Nigerians

Aminu Imam

Nigerians should grow what they eat, according to President Muhammadu Buhari, or they would go hungry. Buhari, who gave his advice in an interview with a Hausa television programme, claimed that Nigerians have no cause to lament their lack of food. He clarified that it was because of his work that the importation of rice was prohibited. The president claimed that despite the floods that had impacted farming villages, Nigeria can still feed itself. According to Buhari, the Government’s move to forbid the importing of rice prompted rice planting. He…

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25 million Nigerians suffering from hunger – Nutritionist

Aminu Imam

At least 25 million Nigerians are suffering from hunger, according to the National Coordinator of the ‘Academic and Research Network for Scaling-up nutrition in Nigeria‘, (ARN-SUNN), Prof Kola Matthew Anigo. He said this in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, while delivering his Keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 52nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) and scientific conference of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria. Speaking on the theme of the conference: “Bridging the Malnutrition Gap: Nutrition Multi-sectoral Commitments for Sustainable Nutrition in Nigeria”, Anigo lamented the prevalence of malnutrition in Nigeria.…

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Anger, shock trails 43 farmers killed by insurgents, buried amid tears, wailing

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Anger and shock have continue to trail the killing of some 43 rice farmers killed on Saturday by insurgents at Koshebe village in the Jere Local Government Area of Borno State The farmers were buried on Sunday amid wailing and tears by residents of the community. Most Nigerians on social media are berating the government for failure to protect the poor, innocent Nigerians who demand nothing from the government, but just security. From Twitter to Facebook to Instagram, most Nigerians, especially northerners said it is high time the government took…

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WFP says rising hunger in drought-stricken southern Madagascar forcing families to eat insects

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the region’s population or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat insects, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported in Geneva, Switzerland. The figure is three times the number projected mid-year, with women and children comprising most of those experiencing “crisis” or “emergency” hunger conditions. The UN agency pointed out that Madagascar already has the world’s 10th highest rate of stunting, as almost half of all children under the age of five suffer…

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Nigeria emerging as world’s worst hotspots for hunger – FAO

Ishaku Yohanna

The African continent’s giant, Nigeria is emerging as country with the world’s largest food crisis in terms of absolute numbers. About 21.8 million people in the nation are acutely food insecure, new figures from the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization show. The staggering figure underscores how the fallout from the pandemic is driving up hunger in countries that were already gripped by crisis. In Nigeria, working the land can be a dangerous occupation because of longstanding religious and ethnic tensions and, more recently, organized crime. That’s as farmers already…

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