Child malnutrition endangers thousands in northern Nigeria

• Experts vow to nip it in the bud Irked by the country’s worsening indices of malnutrition, especially in the North, a group of experts who have vowed to take the bulls by the horn, announced in Abuja, on Thursday morning, that they will dig to the root of the cankerworm. The professionals who are from the federal and state governments, development partners, civil society and academia believes that child malnutrition is critical to reducing the staggeringly high rate of child malnutrition in northern Nigeria. There are approximately 1.7 million severely acutely malnourished children under-five in Nigeria, accounting for a tenth of the global total. This makes the country the second largest contributor to the under- five and maternal mortality due to acute malnutrition in the world. Nearly a thousand Nigerian children die of malnutrition-related causes every day a total of 361,000 each year. Acute malnutrition also leads to stunting of children causing life-long physic