The National Council on Nutrition, at a virtual meeting anchored at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, approved a five-year nutrition action plan to guide the implementation of interventions and programmes against
Public settings, such as schools, childcare centres, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities and all other canteens of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided
Residents of Kaduna are lamenting the rising prices of grains, especially maize, soybeans and millet in markets, which they blame on hoarding by middlemen mopping up farm produce. Alhaji Usman
No doubt, income from poultry production constitutes a significant share of the total household income across all production systems. However, apart from generating cash income for producers, poultry keeping contributes
Protein is made up of amino acids that join together to form long chains. There are 22 amino acids that help to form the thousands of different proteins in the
Africa is facing an increasingly complex range of interconnected challenges, impacting food and health systems and hindering progress made in fighting all forms of malnutrition. COVID-19 and climate change continue
The Central Bank of Nigeria has released 12.55 billion Nigerian naira (US$31 million) to boost egg and meat production and create more jobs for Nigerians. Ezekiel Ibrahim, president of the
The Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) coalition has appealed to the Gombe State government to release the outstanding N50 million of the N75 million budgeted to take care of
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ohanire, launched the Revised National Health Promotion Policy, along with its ancillary policy documents that detailed the Nigerian government’s approach to improving health outcomes. This
A leading nutrition expert has called for the establishment of Home Economics and Nutrition Extension agents across the country in furtherance of efforts to curtail the menace of malnutrition, particularly