Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the Buhari administration is making progress tackling the problem of malnutrition in the country through the implementation of various intervention programmes, and increased funding.

The Vice President disclosed this on Tuesday at the 2020 Virtual Conference on Nutrition in Nigeria, organized by the Aisha Buhari Foundation in collaboration with development partners.

Speaking on the progress made by the Federal Government, the Vice President said though Nigeria has distinct factors that has exacerbated the situation, the Federal Government has in the past few years demonstrated commitment towards addressing the problem through increase budgeting for nutrition activities and targeting it’s Social Investment Programmes towards tackling malnutrition.

According to him, “…the administration ensured progressive increases in budgetary allocations to nutrition activities in the country. There has been an increased investment of about N3.8 billion by Federal and State governments especially for the procurement of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF).

Noticeably, there have been a decline in stunting and wasting; stunting, from about 44% in 2017 to about 37% in 2019 and wasting from 10.8% in 2017 to 7% in 2019, and an increase in exclusive breast feeding amongst children under 6 months from about 24% in 2017 to 29% in 2019.

The VP added that the Social Investment Programmes (SIPs has also been helpful), “particularly the Home-Ground School Feeding Programme for public schools currently feeds over 9 million children across 34 States and the FCT, serving one nutritious meal every day; and our Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme that has provided cash transfers to about 1.2 million beneficiaries so far, to boost income.”

For more : https://www.chronicle.ng/2020/08/we-made-progress-in-malnutrition-osinbajo/

Look at a pastor lying publicly and tomorrow someone will tell me that lying is sin and that sinners will go to an imaginary hellfire.

Osinbajo is a pastor and he knows damn too well that nothing ain't gonna happen that's why he is lying boldly and don't have a fvck.

Always busy Vp. I seems to like this man more than any other Nigerian politician

Buhari osinbajo administration can achieve zero malnutrition as did in polio free. And i think is will pen out because this home grown school feeding will make it achievable, having to feed the school children will not only make them well fed but also sharpen their memories.

Malnutrition caused by poor feeding will soon be minimal as a result of the assistant made by this administration

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[ author=J111333 post=92984296]Look at a pastor lying publicly and tomorrow someone will tell me that lying is sin and that sinners will go to an imaginary hellfire.

Osinbajo is a pastor and he knows damn too well that nothing ain't gonna happen that's why he is lying boldly and don't have a fvck. [/quote]

School feeding was a great assistant made by this administration