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Nigeria faces one of its worst hunger crises with more than 30 million people expected to be food insecure next year, a one third jump from this year due to economic hardship, a joint report by ...
Hunger is one of the major issues that affect the citizens. 40% (82 million people) of the citizens live below the International Poverty Line of $1.90 daily, whilst another 25% are vulnerable. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Nigeria was ranked second poorest in food affordability globally by the Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom.
On 18 January 2025, a fuel tanker carrying roughly 60,000 liters of petrol overturned at the Dikko junction near Suleja, Niger State, northern Nigeria, where after crashing local residents gathered to collect spilled fuel. The fuel promptly caused an explosion which killed 98 people and injured another 69, including at least 52 critically.
Nigeria is admitted to BRICS as a "partner country". [6] 2025 Suleja fuel tanker explosion: At least 98 people are killed after a crashed fuel truck explodes near Suleja, Niger State. [7] 22 January – At least 20 people are killed in a Boko Haram attack on the village of Gadan Gari, Borno State. [8]
The United Nations humanitarian agency is struggling to secure funding to combat severe food insecurity in Nigeria's insurgency-hit northeast, raising fears of mass hunger and deaths, its resident ...
More than 258 million people across 58 countries faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2022, according to a new United Nations-led report. Despite years of warnings, experts say this ...
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool that attempts to measure and track hunger globally as well as by region and by country, prepared by European NGOs of Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. [1] The GHI is calculated annually, and its results appear in a report issued in October each year.
Oxfam, ALIMA and Save the Children warned that the food crises in West Africa could affect 27 million people, especially in Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Mali, and Nigeria. [55] During a May 2022 visit to Nigeria, the Secretary-General of the United Nations said the war in Ukraine has made the food, energy, and economic crises worse in Africa as a ...