At a joint security forces press briefing against the backdrop of the recent nationwide protests, the Comptroller-General
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This is as it noted that another 24,000 bags of the 25kg rice has been added to the federal government’s donation to increase the quantity
Each state including the FCT is given 20 trucks containing 1,200 bags of 25kg for a truck and the rice is to be distributed to the most vulnerable in the society.
Or, our views are hangovers from ancient hatred and bile. But, hunger seems to be in a class of its own. It is borderless.
The food intervention programme will cost his foundation, (Aliko Dangote Foundation ADF), close to N15 billion.
This weekend marks a year since Nigerians went to the polls to vote in the new administration led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
The folklore, which Anikulapo-Kuti entitled: “Alujanjankijan,” brims with the motif of greed and its implications.
The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has advised President Tinubu to think deeply about the proposed N35,000 addition to wages of federal government workers.
Fayemi, who is the NGF Chairman, said the raging nationwide #EndSARS protests resulted from years of pent-up emotion, anger and hunger in the land, adding that the governors are committed to larger reform of the polity not only 534 much taunted Police reform.
The Chief of Staff to Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Biodun Omoleye, stated this during a tour of the ongoing and completed projects of the state government on Wednesday at Ikun-Ekiti.
The state PDP Acting Chairman, Martin Ejiogu, stated this at a news conference on Thursday in Owerri, while reacting to the array of defectors to the APC in the state.
As the COVID-19 crisis pushes up levels of hunger among the global poor, the World Food Programme and UNICEF are urging national governments to prevent devastating nutrition and health consequences for the 370 million children missing out on school meals amid school closures.
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has debunked insinuations from some quarters alleging that the citizens of the State were being ravaged by poverty, hunger and hardship.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has raised alarm over rising cases of hunger in Africa.
Civil Society Organizations and professional bodies in Nigeria have expressed worry at the rate poor and vulnerable Nigerians are facing the full wrath of the law over petty acts that constitute offences often committed due to poverty and hunger.
No fewer than 113 million people experienced high levels of food insecurity in the world’s most severe food crises in 2018, the Global Report on Food Crisis 2019 has found.
Jerry Okorodudu, an Olympian on Tuesday in Lagos, said he was dying of hunger over the non-payment of his 10 months’ salary by the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports.
The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent reports that the competition which began at 10 a.m, from the Unity Fountain in Maitama, is tagged: “Racing for Sustainable Development Goals.”
Obasanjo made the call in his keynote address during the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan.
Ishaku urged the people of the state to join hands with the government to rescue the state from its drawbacks as well as in reconstructing dilapidated schools and hospitals