Ganiyu Amodu Every hour, almost 100 children under the age of five die in Nigeria due to malnutrition, the United Nations Children’s Fund has said. The Chief Nutritionist for UNICEF, Nemat Hajeebhoy, said this on Thursday in Abuja during a media executive roundtable meeting organised by the National Council of Nutrition in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President, with support from UNICEF, the Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria, Federal Ministry of Health, among others. According to Hajeebhoy, malnutrition threatens the survival and growth of Nigerian children. She…
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