Two out of every three Nigerian child are not eating the right food suitable for their health, the latest National Demographic Health Survey reveals.
Revealing this at the start of a three-day capacity building workshop for health editors and reporters on challenges in the health and nutrition sector in Nigeria, organised by the Civil Society Sacling Up Nutrition un Nigeria (CS-SUNN) and PACFaH in Kaduna, the programme director CS-SUNN, Beatrice Eluaka said, malnutrition has become endemic in Nigeria and no part of the country is immune to the problem of malnutrition.
"Malnutrition is a major problem for both the poor and the rich. As it is recorded in Delta State, so it is in highbrow Ikoyi where 13% of the children are malnourished. In high agricultural rich northern region over 50 percent stunting rate [of children too short for their age] is recorded
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