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By Blessing Osemobor Founder of Community Pot, Oluwakemi Jeje, has called for a shift from charity-driven responses to commercially viable, innovation-led solutions, as malnutrition continues to silently undermine Nigeria’s human capital and economic progress. She made this call during the virtual Private Sector Roundtable on Sustainable Nutrition, held on August 5, 2025. The high-level event, themed “Nigeria’s Next Frontier for …

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.. Jeje speaks on tragic toll of toddler malnutrition “We will never know the cost as a nation, as a people, the losses that we continue to incur because toddlers, our children, do not find the nutrition and minerals they need to adequately thrive and become all that they’re supposed to be.” This was the charge delivered by Mrs. Oluwakemi …

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  By Victor Emeruwa The National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS) latest Consumer Price Index report indicated some relief on food insecurity as food inflation slowed to 23.51 per cent in February. This is a sharp decline from last February (2024), when food inflation stood at 37.92 per cent. But this relief may still not translate to much in terms of …

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The current state of malnutrition in Nigeria has wide-reaching consequences, affecting both the nation’s future development and the well-being of vulnerable populations, particularly children, pregnant women, and the elderly. Malnutrition, often referred to as a silent killer, contributes to a reduction in life expectancy for both adults and children in Nigeria. According to UNICEF, malnutrition is responsible for the daily …

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Malnutrition has been described  as one of the several consequences affecting underaged children as a result of intermittent child birth by their parents, especially their mothers due to inability to adopt child spacing methods.

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What problem can be found in every country in the world and affects one in three people globally? What problem is so rife that the World Health Organization (WHO) terms it “the new normal.”? The surprising answer is malnutrition. It is not an issue that grabs many headlines or attracts much funding, yet malnutrition in its various forms, from hunger …

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