Some financial experts have urged the Federal Government to allocate more foreign exchange into the financial system to address illiquidity and tackle food insecurity challenges due to rising inflation.
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The ECOWAS Commission said more than 4.8 million people across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are facing food insecurity resulting from the spate of terrorist attacks and military takeover of their governments.
The United Nations (UN) Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Mr. Matthias Schmale has revealed that an estimated 4.3 million people are food insecure in the Northeastern states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe.
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.
ASHENEWS reports that the former Sokoto state governor, and presidential candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) during the 2007 general elections, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa has warned that banditry would get a boost if the Federal government failed to fight food insecurity.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Executive Board has approved a new emergency financing instrument for countries suffering from acute food…
Acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in Nigeria and 19 other countries, particularly between February and May 2022,…
By Suleiman Abbah Food security, according to the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, is defined as meaning that…
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) on Friday launched humanitarian flash appeal for the Kenya drought response…
Worried by the imminent food crisis predicted by agriculture experts, some stakeholders from the North-Central have urged the federal government…