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27 Aug 2023
Sometime in April this year, Oxfam – a global movement of people, working together to end the injustice of poverty, predicted that nearly 25 million Nigerians were at risk of facing hunger between June and August this year.
23 Jul 2023
Vice President, Sen. Kashim Shettima will on Sunday depart Abuja to represent President Bola Tinubu at two major international Summits in Rome, Italy and St Petersburg, Russia.
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Mr Olusola Abiola, Director, Information,
Office of the Vice President, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.
17 Jul 2023
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) says millet has potential to help Nigeria achieve food security because of its nutritional values. FAO Country Director, Fred Kafeero, who disclosed this during the commemoration of the International Year of Millets in Abuja..
14 Jul 2023
United Nations (UN), yesterday, warned that over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, weather shocks and conflict, including the war in Ukraine.
29 Jun 2023
Recent figures from the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) show that Nigeria is not on track in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, zero hunger, and SDG 3, good health and wellbeing, by 2030.
8 Jun 2023
With the World Food Safety Day (WFSD), observed yearly on June 7, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), yesterday, said every day, some 1.6 million people worldwide fall ill from eating contaminated food...
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Nigerian Government have signed an agreement with the federal government for the implementation of the FAO Country Programming Framework (CPF) to the tune of $99.5 million over five years.
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