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A few years ago, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) rated eighty-six countries as low-income and food-deficient nations, thus, considered to be food insecure (http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9290e/w9290e01.htm). Forty-three out of these food-deficient countries are located in the African continent, which has a total of 58 countries. The most affected among the forty-three countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where chronic hunger, squalor, and abject poverty are widespread. This is despite overall gains recorded in food production and food security over a decade on a global scale.

ASHENEWS reports that the Ekiti State Government has applied to the Supreme Court of Nigeria to be joined as a Co-Plaintiff in a suit against the Federal Government on the Naira Redesign policy and the deadline issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the swap of old notes for new ones.

Ahead of the 2023 elections in Nigeria, the Enugu state chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has urged those aspiring for various political positions in the state to give credence to the health sector.