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US pledges $32.5 million to ease hunger in Borno, northern Nigeria

The United States has approved $32.5 million in humanitarian aid to Nigeria, targeting hunger in the country’s conflict-torn north, particularly Borno state. The U.S. mission to Nigeria said the funding will deliver food and nutrition support to internally displaced people in the northeast, where communities have been battered by more than a decade of insurgency.
US pledges $32.5 million to ease hunger in Borno, northern Nigeria

The United States has approved $32.5 million in humanitarian aid to Nigeria, targeting hunger in the country’s conflict-torn north, particularly Borno state.

The U.S. mission to Nigeria said the funding will deliver food and nutrition support to internally displaced people in the northeast, where communities have been battered by more than a decade of insurgency.

The aid package is expected to reach more than 764,000 people, including 41,569 pregnant and breastfeeding women and 43,235 children.

Borno state has been hardest hit, with aid agencies warning that an “unprecedented hunger crisis” could leave 1.3 million people without food and force the shutdown of at least 150 nutrition clinics. In Maiduguri, Intersos, an Italian humanitarian group, now runs the only in-patient malnutrition facility still open.

Margot van der Velden, the World Food Program’s regional director for West Africa, warned in July that funding shortages had pushed the agency to suspend food assistance in parts of West and Central Africa, leaving millions vulnerable. Food stocks in Nigeria and other affected countries were projected to run out by September.

Northern Nigeria is also reeling from rising insecurity that has killed about 35,000 civilians and displaced over two million, violent clashes between farmers and herders in the northwest and north-central regions have further strained food supplies.

US pledges $32.5 million to ease hunger in Borno, northern Nigeria

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Tinubu has turned Nigeria into civilian dictatorship – Dele Momodu

Media mogul Dele Momodu has claimed that President Bola Tinubu has placed Nigeria under “a civilian dictatorship.” Momodu stated this in a post on X on Wednesday evening. According to him, both political opponents and leaders must embrace constructive criticism. He wrote: “I stand gidigba by my opinion that what we have now is civilian
Tinubu has turned Nigeria into civilian dictatorship – Dele Momodu

Media mogul Dele Momodu has claimed that President Bola Tinubu has placed Nigeria under “a civilian dictatorship.”

Momodu stated this in a post on X on Wednesday evening.

According to him, both political opponents and leaders must embrace constructive criticism.

He wrote: “I stand gidigba by my opinion that what we have now is civilian dictatorship.

“Constructive criticism is not meant only for political opponents but for all leaders.

“I’m decent and civil enough to avoid the use of the type of uncouth and blistering words and public theatricals some born-again supporters of Tinubu used against him.

“I still shudder at the sheer depravity of how some people can switch overnight and think Tinubu has forgotten the level they descended, or that we all suffer from collective amnesia.

“I place Nigeria above other considerations.”

Tinubu has turned Nigeria into civilian dictatorship – Dele Momodu

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North not shortchanged in presidential rotation – Rep Abdulmumin Jibrin

A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said he feels terribly embarrassed when knowledgeable northerners claim the North is shortchanged in the rotation of the presidency. Jibrin stated this on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television. The Kano House
North not shortchanged in presidential rotation – Rep Abdulmumin Jibrin

A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said he feels terribly embarrassed when knowledgeable northerners claim the North is shortchanged in the rotation of the presidency.

Jibrin stated this on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television.

The Kano House of Representatives member also lamented that the northern part of Nigeria has always united against itself politically.

“I feel terribly embarrassed when I see knowledgeable northerners say the north is shortchanged in the rotation of the presidency.

“The north has always united against itself and it is time for us to tell ourselves the truth.

“It’s an insult to former heads of state from the region when a northerner goes on national television to spill such comments,” he said.

North not shortchanged in presidential rotation – Rep Abdulmumin Jibrin