Five months into 2017, there is still no budget or funding for 2.5 million Severely Acute Malnourished (SAM) children in the country. Investigations by The Guardian revealed that even previous year's budget was not adequate to cater for millions of malnourished children in the country. He said: "For instance, in 2014, when a budget line for child nutrition was created for the first time in Nigeria, N30m was allocated, but nothing was released. In 2015, nothing was budgeted for child nutrition. "Kaduna State government released N300m for nutrition, Gombe State released N17m, Bauchi State N17m and Sokoto State N50m.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 07, 2017 04:41 UTC