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HealthCare Financing Is Key To Advancing Health Sector, says Jane Ike-Okoli
Jane Ike-Okoli, Head, Specialised Sectors, Stanbic IBTC Bank, has said that healthcare financing is key to advancing the health sector in...
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Sep 15, 20222 min read
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Experts Urge Nigerians to Produce Soybeans to Curb Malnutrition
In furtherance of efforts to curb the rate of malnutrition in the country, nutrition and agricultural experts have called on Nigerians to...
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Apr 13, 20212 min read
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Curbing Protein Deficiency With Food Security
Food security is at the heart of a nation’s development agenda. This comes with a clear commitment to end hunger, achieve food stability...
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Apr 13, 20213 min read
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Protein Challenge Webinar Series 8: Top 10 Take-Aways
Numbers tell a story. If you can connect one story with another, you can make plausible inferences. Two reports released last week showed...
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Mar 29, 20214 min read
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Report Reveals Nigeria’s Alarming Protein Deficiency Status
The report of a recent research survey has revealed that Nigeria’s protein deficiency situation is approaching alarming proportions. The...
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Mar 29, 20212 min read
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Protein Nutrition: Roadmap to a healthy future
The journey of life runs from childbirth to senescence. One activity that remains constant throughout this journey is daily nutrition....
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Feb 24, 20213 min read
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Resolving Malnutrition amidst the Pandemic
By Reginald Onabu The year 2020 was an unusual one in every sense of the word. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic made sure of this. To...
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Feb 10, 20213 min read
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Time to Improve the Nigerian Food Plate
Africa is big on agriculture. It has to be. It is the second-largest continent in the world. It is also the second most populous. So,...
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Jan 28, 20215 min read
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Fish and Soyabeans: A Great Combination for Improved Human Health
By Adewolu Morenike A. Introduction One of the serious problems facing developing countries today is how to match food production levels,...
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Jan 14, 20216 min read
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Don Calls For Establishment Of Home Economics, Nutrition Extension Agents
A leading nutrition expert has called for the establishment of Home Economics and Nutrition Extension agents across the country in...
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Jan 11, 20212 min read
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Three Essential Elements of a Protein-Centred National Nutrition Policy
Nutrition, whether at the individual, domestic or national level, is an essential part of health and development that cannot be...
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Jan 6, 20213 min read
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Soybean: The ‘Miracle Bean’ Against Protein Deficiency
By Veronica Ejembi Protein deficiency is at an all-time high in Nigeria. If you think this health issue is exaggerated, then you need to...
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Dec 18, 20203 min read
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Protein Deficiency: Experts Task Nigerians On Regular Consumption of Soybeans
Experts in the food and nutrition industry have encouraged Nigerians to regularly consume soybeans as one of the protein-rich foods to...
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Dec 15, 20202 min read
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Food, Policy Options For Tackling Protein Energy Malnutrition in Nigeria
Image credits for AP By Dr. Monica Omo-Irefo (MBBS) Protein Energy Malnutrition, also known as Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), is a...
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Dec 14, 20207 min read
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The Call for A National Protein-Centered Nutrition Policy
Good nutrition is fundamental for achieving the right to health and proper well-being, as embodied in the third segment of the...
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Dec 7, 20203 min read
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Experts Task FG on National Protein Nutrition Policy
The Federal Government of Nigeria has been called upon to, as a matter of urgency, actively pursue the development and implementation of...
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Dec 7, 20203 min read
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Adeniran, Boyo To Headline National Protein-Centered Nutrition Policy Deliberation
Dr. Adepeju Adeniran, clinician physician and public health expert, Dr. Omadeli Boyo, a public health practitioner and medical director;...
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Nov 25, 20202 min read
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Strategies For Curtailing Protein Deficiency
Every living organism needs food, not just any food, but quality food. Food is any substance (liquid, solid or semi-solid) which is...
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Nov 23, 20203 min read
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Why Nigerians need to embrace healthy habits.
One of the vital issues amongst the plethora of problems plaguing the country Nigeria since she gained her independence is the nation’s...
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Sep 17, 20203 min read
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Hunger: Beyond the Numbers.
The world is run by numbers. With numbers, we measure, rank and position. In many parts of the world, numbers decide elections, determine...
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Sep 8, 20204 min read
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