Help end child malnutrition, Oluremi Tinubu begs traditional, religious leaders

Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has launched a National Community Food Bank Programme and appealed to traditional and religious leaders to help combat child malnutrition and preventable diseases. The initiative, timed with the start of Lent and Ramadan, seeks to leverage community and faith-based structures to improve child nutrition and health outcomes nationwide. This matters because it signals a federal-level push to address food insecurity and child health through social and religious networks rather than purely administrative channels.

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