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Osinbajo’s spokesman,
Laolu Akande, in a statement, said the approval was in an effort to further improve the wellbeing of citizens. Membership of the council include Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum(NGF), the ministers of health and water resources, as well as the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning. Others are the Nutrition Society of Nigeria, development partners, organised private sector, Civil Society Organisations and the former Emir of Kano,
Sanusi Lamido. The plan is targeted at reducing the proportion of people who suffer malnutrition by 50 per cent, and increase exclusive breastfeeding rate to 65 per cent.
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The Plan
The plan will reduce the proportion of people who suffer malnutrition by 50% and increase exclusive breastfeeding rate to 65%.
It will also reduce stunting rate among under-five year olds to 18% by 2025 through the scaling up of priority high impact nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions.
The plan recommends the adoption and implementation of strategies aimed at improving the nutritional status of Nigerians by tackling under nutrition and stunting, among others.
The vice president welcomed suggestions for the adoption of extensive nutrition advocacy programmes to be driven by stakeholders across all levels of government and the private sector.
The NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, said his colleagues have endorsed the plan. He added that taking the advocacy campaign to the state governors will be a crucial part of ending malnutrition in the country.