Foreign nationals in Nigeria have commended Nigerian foods for their rich nutritional content and quality, describing them as the best in the world. This is coming as the leading Nigerian airline, Virgin Nigeria, has concluded plans to start serving the local delicacies on board. These were the remarks of participants at the just concluded international food Fair which took place last week in ...

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday opened a milk powder plant, the first in Uganda, and called for the removal of taxes on the production of milk.

The Mozambican Interior Ministry is worried about obesity in the police force, a phenomenon that has been on the increase in recent years.

"There is no hunger in Senegal and there will be no hunger in Senegal," President Abdoulaye Wade declared at the end of April, annoyed that the main topic of discussion throughout the country is the ongoing food crisis that affects countries worldwide.

Relief food should be rushed to villagers in some parts of Lamu District to avert death by starvation, the provincial administration said Tuesday.

Preventing infants and young children from becoming undernourished is much more effective than treating children who are already malnourished, according to a new study published in the February 16 issue of leading medical journal, The Lancet.

With malnutrition contributing 54 per cent of under-five mortality rates in the country, Nutritional experts at a one- day media workshop on "Infant nutrition and young child feeding in Nigeria" have blamed the present poor nutritional statistics on Nigerians ignorant of the basic fundamental principles of nutrition, particularly at the policy implementation level.