TORMENTED by years of interminable Islamist terrorism, banditry, Fulani herdsmen rapine, militancy/industrial oil theft, kidnapping, and seasonal flooding, all conflating into economic downturn, Nigeria’s ability to feed its mammoth population of 216 million is becoming highly questionable. Observed by SUPERS.ng, it has been reinforced by a new United Nations publication, which warned that nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August if urgent action is not taken. This advisory resonates. The federal and state governments should not trivialise it.

Food has become very expensive, preventing millions of Nigerians from feeding well. SUPERS.ng gathered that With security deteriorating to extraordinary depths, forcing farmers to abandon their farmland, there is a real threat of hunger looming large over Africa’s most populous country.

According to the UN, the new data is a projected increase from the estimated 17 million people currently at risk of food insecurity. The report listed continued conflict, climate change, inflation and rising food prices as major drivers of its forecast. According to SUPERS.ng findings, the National Bureau of Statistics aggregated food inflation in December at 23.75 per cent, a drop from the 24.13 per cent in November. Year-on-year, it was up by 6.38 per cent. Recent reports from local and international organisations point to the fact that millions of Nigerians go to bed hungry without any certainty as to where their next meal would come from as prices of foodstuff skyrocket.

Predictably, Nigeria ranked 103 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index, which was released in October 2022, and jointly published by NGOs Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe of Germany. The report, which ranks countries by “severity” of hunger level, gave Nigeria a score of 27.3 – a hunger level falling under the “serious” category.

The 2022 ranking was the second consecutive year in which Nigeria’s ranking on the scale remained stagnant. It ranked 103 out of 116 countries in 2021 and finished 98 among 107 countries in 2020, SUPERS.ng learnt.

NBS data indicates that food prices continue to rise in Nigeria. For instance, the average price of 1.0 kilogramme of boneless beef on a year-on-year basis, increased by 29.00 per cent from the N1,812.03 recorded in November 2021 to N2,337.46 in November 2022.

NBS data indicates that food prices continue to rise in Nigeria. For instance, the average price of 1.0 kilogramme of boneless beef on a year-on-year basis, increased by 29.00 per cent from the N1,812.03 recorded in November 2021 to N2,337.46 in November 2022.

Apart from rising food prices, the country has never had it this bad in terms of insecurity after the Civil War of 1967 to 1970.

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One clear sign of that is the disappearance of sweet potatoes as at mid-December. We simply ate all the potatoes we normally eat until May of the year after harvest by mid-December.
That sends yams, garri and rice prices up by reason of the increased demand zero supply of sweet potatoes will create.
Why won't that be the case when terrorists rebranded as bandits now collect harvest taxes?