The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that some 25 million Nigerians are at risk of “severe hunger” in 2023, and warned that the situation may worsen if “concrete steps” are not taken to address the issue. In a statement, UNICEF attributed the cause to conflicts, climate change, inflation, and rising food prices. The statement said: “Nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 if urgent action...

The Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba has hinted that the federal government will soon begin the process of verifying money spent by states to tackle the COVID-19 virus. The minister said an Independent Verification Agent (IVA) had been engaged for the implementation of the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES) Programme. Speaking at the signing of a contract between the federal government and Steigler Services Ltd to serve...

For Nigerian Women, there are restricted numbers of HIV/AIDS prevention methods available for use and even fewer methods that are easily accessible to many. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic is one of the world’s most serious public health and social problems, and promoting knowledge and strategies to control prevalence is important. The national prevalence among adults is pegged at 1.4 percent with Women twice as likely to be living with the...

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has described the claim by the federal government that states are responsible for the rise in poverty rate as baseless and false. The NGF said this in a statement issued by AbdulRazaque Bello-Barkindo, director of media and public affairs. Earlier, Clem Agba, the minister of state for budget and national planning, had accused state governors of giving more thought to flyovers and airports than improving conditions in rural areas. Agba...

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, yesterday said AIDS-related deaths had declined from an estimated 264,463 persons in 2015 to about 51,000 as of October this year. He spoke in Abuja during the commemoration of the World AIDS Day organized by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and attributed the decline to due to the ongoing efforts by the present administration to improve access to HIV services. Represented...