Nigeria’s Northeast Risks Mass Hunger, Death As UN Funding Decreases

LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-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 coordinator warned. In April, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) launched a $306 million appeal alongside Nigeria on behalf…

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Police Cadet Drops Dead In Academy As Colleagues Allege Starvation, High Handedness

Police Cardet, drops, Dead, LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A100-level course 9 police cadet, A.S. Jika, dropped dead at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, on Saturday, after being continuously starved and malnourished for over two weeks. Some of the cadets accused the Commandant, Assistant Inspector-General, Sadiq Abubakar, of high-handedness and financial mismanagement of feeding allowance…

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