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5 Mar
In response to the alarming rise in childhood hunger rates, the Dominic Joshua Foundation has announced the launch of a groundbreaking initiative aimed at addressing this pressing issue head-on. With recent statistics from the World Food Programme revealing that approximately 690 million people worldwide go to bed hungry each night, the foundation has pledged to…
26 Jan
In a recent review published in Nutrients, researchers assessed nutrition-related studies involving sickle cell disease (SCD) patients, particularly those in Africa.  
17 Dec
Mercy Eloho Sosanya is rounding up her PhD studies in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA. She is also a former Head of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics in the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, Bauchi State, where she is currently a Principal Lecturer.
1 Dec
Amidst efforts to tackle high rate of malnutrition in the country, the government of Netherlands has provided 10million euros to improve the nutrition of 1.1million women and children across four states.
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Save the Children, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), yesterday, said more than 27 million children were driven into hunger and malnutrition by extreme weather events in countries heavily impacted by the climate crisis in 2022.
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The National Stadium, now Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja has a 60,000-sitting capacity. Whenever the facility is filled to full capacity by people, it is not only easily noticed but referred to or tagged ‘ocean of humanity’ which is just a one-off fill.
10 Sep 2023
Food security is a growing challenge across the globe today. It is a phenomenon that is multi-dimensional with economic, environmental and social angles. Unfortunately, the greater share of the population of the undernourished is located in the developing countries.
24 Aug 2023
The Wife of Ebonyi Governor, Mrs Mary-Maudline Nwifuru, has called on stakeholders to join hands in the fight against the menace of malnutrition affecting the society. Nwifuru made the call on Thursday, during the 2023 Ebonyi Hidden Hunger Conference, organised by the state government in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).…
19 May 2023
To prevent catastrophic hunger and malnutrition in northeast Nigeria, $396 million is urgently needed to scale up humanitarian action in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states.

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