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In this report, TOYIN OMOZUWA, advocates that policymakers, think tanks, scientists and the media should form a formidable alliance against Nigeria’s growing food insecurity. While calling for deeper collaboration, she said their spirited efforts in the past have not yielded the desired results, largely because of lack of multi-sectoral cooperation. Without multilevel, multi-stakeholders’ synergy, Nigeria’s fight against hunger will be futile, she added. Excerpts…. Several research findings indicate that food insecurity is prevalent in Nigeria. Last year, Nigeria was ranked 103rd out of 116 countries in the Global Hunger Index.  A recent report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), notes that about 19.4 million Nigerians are vul...

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the Edo State minimum wage of N40, 000 (Forty thousand naira) is to help those at the bottom pass the poverty threshold even as he averred that the State Government respects labour which is why there hasn’t been any strike regarding allowances or wages in the state. On the demand for increased allowances for Medical Doctors practicing with the State government, he assured that there are allowances due to them but subject to negotiation. “We don't like making promises we cannot fulfill as a government. This is one of the quarrels we have with the federal government. You can't go and negotiate a labour contract and impose it on us.” He said. Obaseki, called for doctors' collaboration to sustain reforms in the healthcare sector, e...

As Nigeria celebrates the National Children’s Day, the wife of the Executive Chairman Kuje Area Council, Hajiya Salamatu Abdullahi Suleiman Sabo, has donated educational materials to over 250 primary school pupils in Kuje to mark the 2022 Children’s Day. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the children comprises pupils from the less privileged, internally displaced,‘School without Walls’ and other vulnerable children drawn from various communities in kuje. The children received school bags, lunch box, sandals, books, mathematical sets and food items at the women development center in Kuje. Salamatu said that the event tagged: “Education for Development”, was to give the displaced and less privilege children a sense of belonging as part of marking the Children’s Day. ...

By Segun Fabiya A man from Orlu community in Imo State, Njioyi Kingsley Chukwuemeka, has raised the alarm over threats to his life by a separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), using its militant arm, the Eastern Security Network (ESN). Chukwuemeka, who has now gone into hiding, related his ordeal to our correspondent through a telephone chat. He said that in year 2000, he was persuaded to join the IPOB upon the persuasion that it was meant to foster unity among the Igbo ethnic stock in Nigeria. In virtually no time, however, he realised that the group was meant for other sinister motives, especially going g by the setting up of theESN, a militant arm of it, which he considered violent and vicious. "I decided to pull out of the group because I cannot be Party t...