Tag: Hunger
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CARTOON OF THE DAY: Governors have started war against hunger
CARTOON OF THE DAY: Governors have started war against hunger
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Tinubu will kill Nigerians if hunger doesn’t – Atiku aide
The fallout of the shambolic policies of President Bola Tinubu’s led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration is killing Nigerians even as there are no efforts to stem the tide, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, has said.
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Hunger is real and present – By Dakuku Peterside
Hunger is widespread and chronic in Nigeria, and its prevalence is one phenomenon that statistics cannot fully capture; not even the global hunger index does justice to it. Statistics deals with numbers, but hunger deals with humans. Relying on quantitative data alone
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Ethiopia’s Tigray sees sharp increase in hunger – says UN
Number of people suffering from severe malnutrition in Tigray, the war-torn region of northern Ethiopia, has risen sharply and the situation is set to worsen, according to the UN.
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Severe hunger affecting 4.3m people in Northeast Nigeria- UN official
United Nations (UN), top humanitarian official in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, has said that severe hunger is affecting 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. Schmale disclosed this to journalists in Geneva on Wednesday, that the number of children under five at risk of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition had doubled in one year…
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Somalia faces ‘dire hunger emergency’ as millions cut off aids over lack of funding- UN warns
Somalia’s “dire hunger emergency” is spiraling upward with one-third of the population expected to face crisis or worse levels of food needs, but the UN has been forced to drastically cut food assistance because of a lack of funding, the head of the World Food Program said Thursday. Cindy McCain told the UN Security Council…
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Food insecurity: Over 25m Nigerians will face acute hunger in 2023- UN Agency
United Nations agency, the World Food Programme, (WFP), has said that over 25 million Nigerians will face acute hunger in 2023 due to food insecurity, peaking during the ‘lean season’.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: What are you hungry for?
Peter became very hungry and wanted to eat, then he fell into a trance where he saw a great sheet descending from heaven containing all kinds of four-footed animals, wild beasts, and birds of the air. Then God told him to rise, kill and eat. Peter’s hunger put him in a state that enabled him…