The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Monday, censured former Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi over his hunger comment. At a media parley in the nation’s capital Abuja, Wike said Amaechi can’t stay out of power and his hunger comment was an insult to the sensibilities...
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Mr Babatunde Ogala, the Senior Legal Counsel to President Bola Tinubu and Grand Patron of Renewed Hope Global, has dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has “weaponised poverty” in Nigeria as disconnected from reality. Ogala made the remarks on Saturday during a dinner in Abuja organised by Nigerians...
Amid growing rumours of a possible coalition among opposition leaders to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said that the only coalition he is interested in is the one against hunger, poverty, and the terrible...
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that millions of people in West and Central Africa are facing record hunger as conflict, displacement, economic hardship and repeated extreme weather push the region towards a major crisis. No fewer than 36 million people are struggling to meet their basic...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has declared that no citizen of Kogi State should go to bed hungry under his watch as the Governor of the state. Ododo made the declaration at the official flag off of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) Food...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In the wake of the devastating floods that hit Borno State in September 2024, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has offered a $1 million contribution from its Special Relief Fund to support emergency food response for flood-affected communities in Borno State, North East, Nigeria....
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has budgeted 2.5 billion dollars in the 2023 to-2027 Nigeria Country Strategy Plans (CSP) geared towards achieving zero hunger and improved nutrition across the country. Head of Programme, WFP, Mr Seriene Loum, said this at the Co-creation workshop organised by the organisation...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja– The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded that President Bola Tinubu account for the billions of naira reportedly saved from the removal of fuel subsidies and investigate the alleged theft of over N25 trillion by APC leaders and government officials. The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary,...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of politicising the recent stampedes in Abuja, Anambra, and Ibadan, where several lives were tragically lost. In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, the APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, condemned the PDP’s actions, calling...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- A spate of tragic incidents has shaken Nigeria, as scores of people, including children, have lost their lives in desperate searches for food. The latest incidents bring to the fore the harsh realities of economic hardship and the systemic failures that plague the country. In...
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun, Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has said that the cost of food items in the country was becoming worrisome and unaffordable for the masses. Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), said this while speaking with newsmen...
The Catholic Church has called on Nigerians to combat hunger and foster societal transformation by embracing the “Okpaleke Model,” which promotes self-reliance, community engagement, and equitable resource use. The Church made this known in Abuja on Wednesday at its 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Seminar. The News Agency...
Israel’s actions in Gaza have been described as a humanitarian crisis, with the country using starvation as a weapon of war. The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, further, accused the Israeli government of deliberately denying civilians in Gaza...
Many residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), say they are finding it difficult to feed due to the high cost of food items. The residents also lamented further increase in transportation fares following the increase in the Pump Price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol....
The Cadre Harmonisé (CH) Report for October has predicted that at least 33.1 million people in 26 states and the FCT would face food and nutrition crisis between June and August 2025. The prediction came from the CH Analysis Report released on Friday in Abuja. The analysis was conducted...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that prices of essential food items, including beans, eggs, bread, rice, and tomatoes, experienced significant increases in September 2024. The NBS said this in its Selected Food Prices Watch report for September 2024 released in Abuja on Wednesday. The report said that...
President Bola Tinubu has said his administration is taking appropriate measures to reduce the cost of living. The President said this in his Independence Day broadcast on Tuesday. “The central concern of our people today is the high cost of living, especially food costs. This concern is shared by...
Sen. Ali Ndume (APC-Borno) has decried the level of corruption in Nigeria, saying the trend is a major challenge facing the nation. Ndume stated this during an interactive session with newsmen in Kano on Saturday. “Our major challenge in this country is corruption. Up till now, we have no...
Labour Party presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, has said that prioritising investment in agriculture is a sure way of tackling hunger and insecurity in Africa. The former Governor of Anambra was speaking as a panellist at an international conference on food security in Kigali,...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has urged the Federal Government to resolve the rising food prices and hardship in the country. In a communique issued at the end of a week-long second Plenary Meeting of the CBCN held in Auchi Diocese, Edo, the clerics urged the federal...