Asmau Mohammed News Today

The marauding bandits had struck again. The assailants, in their hundreds, sent many residents away from their farms, rustled animals and carted away food items. Hajara, a 25-year-old mother of four, fled Shadadi community in Niger state, Nigeria's north-central, with her children and never looked back.

Studies have shown that pregnant women and children often suffer malnutrition because these beliefs prevent them from eating nutritious foods packed with vitamins and proteins.