FG Plans Scaling Up Nutrition For Children, Adolescents

The Federal Government says plans are underway to scale up nutrition for children and adolescent towards improving the well being of Nigerians.
The Director Nutrition, Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), Dr Binyerem Ukaire, said this in Abuja yesterday at a stakeholders meeting ahead of National Response for Growth summit in Tokyo, December 2021.
The Government of Japan will host the next Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G) in December  
The summit is an unprecedented opportunity to set the world on a pathway towards achieving the SDG targets – in particular, to end malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 and strengthen the link between diet, food systems and health.
Its timing is key, with five years to achieve the 2025 World Health Assembly targets, and 10 years to reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
At N4G, the government of Japan aims to work with partners to galvanise commitments from governments, civil society, private sector, donor agencies and the UN to end malnutrition in all its forms.
Ukaire said that the previous commitments by the Nigerian government was not fully implemented due to lack of cooperation by other stakeholders, stressing that the meeting would pave way for the government to achieve its mandate.
In his remark, the representative of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Dr Ahmad Abdulwahab, disclosed that  state governors have mapped out modalities to tackle stunt nutrition in their various states.