About 17.7 million Nigerians are hungry, and the number could increase to 25 million, if nothing is done urgently to salvage the situation.
Of the figure, about one million suffer from acute food insecurity, a term describing people who are hungry but do not know how the next meal will come.
Nkeiru Enwelum, Nutrition Officer for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) made the disclosure, yesterday, at a two-day media dialogue on nutrition financing in Nigeria, organised by the Child Rights Information Bureau (CRIB) of Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, in collaboration with UNICEF.
She also noted that Lagos, Borno, Katsina and Kano have the highest number of food-insecure people in the country, even as she lamented widespread malnutrition in Nigeria.
She observed that the country might likely achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target on exclusive breastfeeding…
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