FOOD & NUTRITION

Lamentation over inadequate palliatives Prices of foodstuff and other essential goods have gone up with residents of locked down states, particularly the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Lagos ...

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has disrupted businesses, communities, education, livelihood and the lives of billions of people globally. As individuals and businesses react and desperately try to ...

The Nigerian government has approved that 70,000 metric tonnes of grain be distributed among the needy in the country. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the widespread use of infant formula products will increase child morbidity and mortality in the country. ...

The Food and Agricultural Organisation of United Nations (FAO) has said it is still committed to Nigeria’s food sustainability, promising that it will continue to adopt the Cadre ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has pledged to step-up campaign against the use of paracetamol by some Nigerians to cook their food. ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians to be cautious when taking a cup of tea popularly known as `Maishayi’ from ...

As part of its determination to fight the scourge of malnutrition in the country, the International Society of Media in Public Health (ISMPH) has called on legislators to ...

Protein makes up about 20 percent of the human body. Protein can be gotten from both plant and animal sources. Protein is essential for good health. The question ...

Proteins have been identified as one of the building blocks of body tissues. They are an important component of every cell in the body. The body uses proteins ...

The world is hungry. A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) noted that about 795 million people globally do not have enough food to lead a ...

One of the biggest challenges facing the world today is global hunger. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) backs this up by stating that “From Africa and ...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said that it will henceforth shutdown vendors that sell stale food to customers at the airport, noting that such foods are ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), a regulatory agency responsible for regulating and controlling importation, manufacture and use of food, drugs and packaged ...

Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) is aware of Public Alert No. 0011/2019 issued by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). As noted in the ...

Honeywell Flour Mills Plc has released its audited financial report for the year ended 31 December, 2018 on 28th June 2019 in which the Company’s Gross Earnings grew ...

Jumia Food Nigeria has added So Fresh, Nigeria’s leading fresh food chain, to its ever-growing catalogue of restaurants on its platform. This is in a bid to promote ...

The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), an agency of the United Nations, has raised alarm over what it described as worrisome levels of contamination of foods in Lagos ...

Diets high in trans fat, hydrogenated oils increase heart disease risk by 21%, deaths by 28% 1,300 Nigerians died in 2010 due to unnecessary exposure to toxic chemical, ...

Come May 27, 2019, the Hollandia No Kid Hungry Foundation would be reaching out to children in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp located at Bogije community, in ...