Nigeria: Action Needed Against Malnutrition

On Wednesday July 9, 2025, the Federal Government revisited an area in which successive regimes have failed – malnutrition. At the Nutrition and Food Summit held in Abuja, a presidential aide on public health, Uju Anwukah, confessed that Nigeria ranked second globally in malnutrition, especially among children and teenagers.

This ugly and embarrassing disclosure was no news, however. Malnutrition has been endemic in Nigeria down the decades and getting worse every year. Way back in 2013, the…