1) Nigeria is a food deficit country and is Africa’s largest importer of rice.

2) One third of children under 5 are stunted. That’s twice the rate of Thailand and three times that of Tunisia.

3) Nearly half of women of reproductive age (48.5 percent) are anaemic. This ranks Nigeria 172th best out of 185 countries.

4) Conflict with Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria has left a large part of the population without access to enough food, water and health services.

5) Displacement, lack of access to many locations, high inflation and reduced purchasing power of communities are worsening the food security situation in northeastern Nigeria.

6) Over 3 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance due to conflict.

- UN World Food Programme. Published July 14, 2016, from https://www.wfp.org/stories/10-fact-about-food-and-nutrition-nigeria

"Every single day, Nigeria loses about 2,300 under-five year olds and 145 women of childbearing age. This makes the country the second largest contributor to the under–five and maternal mortality rate in the world.

Underneath the statistics lies the pain of human tragedy, for thousands of families who have lost their children. Even more devastating is the knowledge that, according to recent research, essential interventions reaching women and babies on time would have averted most of these deaths.

Preventable or treatable infectious diseases such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, measles and HIV/AIDS account for more than 70 per cent of the estimated one million under-five deaths in Nigeria."

- Maternal and child health. (n.d.). Retrieved January 05, 2017, from https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/children_1926.html