Oluremi Tinubu flags off community food bank, commissions PMB estate, Gateway Medical Centre

The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, connected Tuesday launched the South-West Zonal National Community Food Bank successful Ogun State, urging authorities governments crossed the portion to replicate the inaugural to fortify the combat against nutrient insecurity and malnutrition.

Speaking astatine the motorboat held astatine the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, Senator Tinubu said the programme was designed to guarantee that susceptible Nigerians, peculiarly children and large and lactating women, person sustained entree to nutritious food.

She called connected governors successful the South-West to found assemblage nutrient banks successful their respective states successful concern with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), stressing that specified collaboration would facilitate the proviso of nutrient items and supply the operational enactment needed to prolong the initiative.

The First Lady described the National Community Food Bank Programme arsenic a deliberate and sustainable effect to nutrient insecurity and malnutrition among susceptible households, noting that it specifically targets children nether six years of age, large women and lactating mothers.

She expressed optimism that the programme would beryllium sustained, saying its eventual nonsubjective was to guarantee that each Nigerian kid is adequately nourished and...