Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children in the world, with a national prevalence rate of 32 percent of children under five. In addition, an estimated 2 million children in Nigeria suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Malnutrition also accounts for about 50% of child mortality in Nigeria. Within the lifespan […]
Nigeria has convened her first virtual National Nutrition Summit with theme “Harnessing Innovative Financing Options for Nutrition-unravelling the bottlenecks”. The Virtual meeting was convened by the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, through her pet project, Aisha Buhari Foundation, in collaboration with the International Society of Media in Public […]
Over the years, Nigeria has joined more than 170 countries to commemorate the World Breastfeeding Week, a weeklong series of activities from August 1 to 7, every year. This year’s commemoration was aimed at informing people about the links between breastfeeding and the environment/climate change, anchoring breastfeeding as a climate-smart […]
The Honourable Commissioner for Health, Enugu State, Dr. Obi Emmanuel Ikechukwu has lauded the SUN Movement Pooled Fund initiative and commended CS-SUNN for electing Enugu state as a beneficiary of the project. He gave the commendation when members of CS-SUNN, Enugu State Chapter, paid an advocacy visit to his office […]