By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended its second day nationwide streets protest over hunger and economic hardship in the country. NLC President, Mr Joe Ajaero, stated this in a communique jointly signed with Mr Ismail Bello, Acting General Secretary of the Congress at...
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The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to immediately address hunger and economic hardship in the country. NLC President, Mr Joe Ajaero, said this when addressing workers during a peaceful protest from its headquarters to the National Assembly on Tuesday in Abuja. The protesting workers...
Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have stormed the National Assembly (NASS) complex in Abuja on Tuesday as they continued their protests over the rising cost of living in the country. The protesters who were carrying placards with diverse inscriptions, arrived at the National Assembly around 10...
The Catholic Bishop of Lafia Diocese, Most Rev. David Ajang, has called on the Federal Government to urgently take steps toward addressing hunger and the security challenges currently confronting the nation. Ajang made the call on Sunday at a Thanksgiving Mass organised by Dr Emmanuel Akabe, the Nasarawa...
Nigeria’s litany of troubles has finally anchored on two basic existential matters. Insecurity and hunger. We are all very unsafe and now the vast majority of our people are very hungry and angry. Of the two urgencies, the rise of mass hunger is indeed a novel addition to...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has pledged to commit 2.5 billion dollars to strengthen and support Nigeria’s efforts towards sustainable food security and zero hunger across the country. The WFP Country Director, Mr David Stevesson, disclosed this when he led the UN agency’s team to the...
The world is entering a “humanitarian doom loop” as Russia has not offered any free grain to the United Nations (UN) food relief agency so far, an official says. The Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Carl Skau, said this at a press briefing on...
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa has left 23.4 million people acutely food insecure and 5.1 million children acutely malnourished. It said 36.6 million people have been affected by the drought across the region, calling for “immediate and medium-to-long-term actions” to...
The UN’s top humanitarian official in Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has said that severe hunger is affecting 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.s Schmale told journalists in Geneva on Wednesday that the number of children under five at risk of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition had doubled...
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has said that poverty, inequality and exclusion are fueling terrorism, which is posing complex and constant threat to peace and security.anto Guterres said this at the opening of the UN Third Counter-Terrorism week on Monday in New York. Addressing the delegates “at the forefront...
African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says Africa has the necessary partnerships and technologies to eradicate hunger. In a statement issued on the banks website, Adesina said what Africa needed was action, including robust financing to achieve this. He spoke during the opening session of the 8th...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Nigerian researchers have developed four prototypes innovations to address the challenges of hunger, poverty, quality education, responsible consumption and production in the country. The prototypes were developed by lecturers from public higher institutions, under the Research for Impact (R4i), an initiative of Tertiary Education...
UN and partners on Friday appealed for nearly US$400 million to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, in the north-east of the country. Associate Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Ms Stephanie Tremblay, made the appeal at a news conference at the UN headquarters in...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people into worsening levels of acute food insecurity. WFP Executive Director, David...
United Nations agencies on Wednesday said severe drought followed by floods has led to rocketing food prices and left a record of 2.1 million people acutely hungry in Chad. The United Nations children’s fund said as a result of the climate disaster, 10 per cent of all children under...
UN agencies on Tuesday warned that catastrophic hunger levels in Somalia have left more than 513,000 children at risk of dying, 173,000 more than during the 2011 famine. Three UN humanitarian agencies – UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), however, called...
The President, National Bambara Nut Producers, Processors and Marketers Association (NABAPPMA), Igwe Ezedioramma Aniagu, says Bambara nut is the solution to world hunger. Aniagu made this known at the sideline of the official inauguration of 11 new member associations to the National Commodity Associations of Nigeria in Abuja. He...
Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi’s twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived only a day. Weakened by hunger, their mother gave birth to the twins a month early, eight weeks after their exhausted family walked into a...
Mrs Mary Afan, the President, Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) says Nigeria may not end hunger by 2025, if it does not invest massively in boosting agricultural production. Afan made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja on the sidelines...
The number of people facing hunger rose to 193 million last year as conflict, climate change and economic crises ravaged people’s livelihoods, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said Wednesday. While experts have warned that Russia’s war in Ukraine could cause famine, the FAO said in an annual report...