The Cadre Harmonisé (CH) Report for October has predicted that at least 33.1 million people in 26 states and the FCT would face food and nutrition crises between June and August 2025. The prediction came from the CH Analysis Report released on Friday in Abuja. The analysis was conducted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Food Programme …

Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, yesterday, called on the federal government to issue poor Nigerians with Food Vouchers, as a means of tackling the hunger in the nation. In his remarks at the Nigerian delegation’s wrap-up press briefing, at the 2024 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington DC, yesterday, the Senate Inter-Parliamentary Committee Chair said that Food Vouchers would be more effective …

As Nigeria and other nations of the world marked 2024 World Food Day, the Federal Government said, yesterday, it was doing everything possible to tackle hunger in the country. Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr. Aliyu Abdulahi, made the declaration at a ministerial briefing to mark the day, with the theme ‘”The Right to Food for a …

Anger has trailed a viral video of Senate President Godswill Akpabio commenting on the economic hardship in the country. During a chat with his colleagues at plenary, Akpabio urged them to help themselves wherever they see free food. Nigerians have been complaining about petrol price hike and its effect on commodities. Recently, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) increased …

Tropical General Investment (TGI) Group, a leading global conglomerate, through its philanthropic arm, TGI Cares Foundation, has reinforced its commitment to supporting vulnerable communities by donating food items and essential supplies to indigent citizens in Ebute Metta, Lagos recently. The TGI Cares Foundation, whose objectives promote food security by supporting appropriate education, championing social interventions, and providing relief in times …

It was not funny watching Imo state governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, in needless frenzy, in Abuja, last Tuesday. Uzodimma, the Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), was on a tall task, labouring without success, to convince Nigerians that his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) had performed well for them. To fortify the claims, he argued that the current …

One phenomenon that cannot be denied in Nigeria today is hunger. Nigerian people are hungry. Very unusually, no one – politicians, elected government functionaries or their appendages – has been able to allege that this general cry of hunger is politically motivated. So many occurrences have been painted with the camwood of that word, “politically motivated”. It is worse for …