{"id":293466,"date":"2020-12-16T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T09:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=293466"},"modified":"2020-12-16T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T09:35:51","slug":"fg-approves-5-year-plan-to-tackle-hunger-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=293466","title":{"rendered":"FG approves 5-year plan to tackle hunger in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The federal government has approved a five-year nutrition action plan that will help to reduce hunger and malnutrition across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesmen to the  Vice President, Laolu Akande, who made this known in a statement, said the plan was approved by the National Council on Nutrition which is chaired by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.<br \/>\nThe statement said the plan will help in addressing the problems of hunger and malnutrition across all sectors in Nigeria.<br \/>\n\u201cThe approved plan will reduce the proportion of people who suffer malnutrition by 50%; increase exclusive breastfeeding rate to 65%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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.<br \/>\n\u201cThe plan recommends the adoption of strategies aimed at improving the nutritional status of Nigerians by tackling under nutrition, amongst others,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has approved a five-year nutrition action plan that will help to reduce hunger and malnutrition across the country. The spokesmen to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, who made this known in a statement, said the plan was approved by the National Council on Nutrition which is chaired by the Vice President Yemi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4797,754],"class_list":["post-293466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fg","tag-hunger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}