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Health Challenge: Kano Lost 469 Children to Malnutrition in Six Months
No fewer than 469 children died from malnutrition between January and July 2025 in Kano State, as the crisis of poor nutrition continues to threaten child survival in the state.
This was disclosed by Professor Ruqayya Aliyu Yusuf of the Department of Information and Media Studies, Bayero University Kano (BUK), while presenting a paper titled “Understanding the Basics of Behavioural Change: Towards Improving Malnutrition in Kano State” at a media sensitisation training.
Professor Yusuf said malnutrition and poor dietary practices remain major public health challenges in Kano, noting that Nigeria still ranks poorly on the Global Nutrition Index.
Citing 2025 UNICEF reports, she revealed that about 40 per cent of children under 5 years in Nigeria are stunted, while the figure is significantly higher in Kano at 51.9 per cent.
According to her, the high burden of malnutrition is driven by poverty, food insecurity, poor dietary habits and inadequate health awareness among caregivers.
Also speaking at the event, a crop scientist, Amina Ado Yahaya, said Kano State records the highest prevalence of underweight children under the age of five, with 42.6 per cent affected. She stressed the need for localised interventions such as homestead vegetable gardening to improve household nutrition.
Yahaya further explained that Vitamin A deficiency remains a major cause of childhood blindness and increases the severity of common infections such as measles and diarrhoea, thereby worsening child mortality in the state.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced Morocco as winners of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.
The CAF Appeal Board ruled in favour of Morocco, declaring that Senegal forfeited the AFCON final by walking off the field during the game.
Morocco were awarded a 3–0 walkover victory.
This decision upholds Morocco’s appeal following the chaotic events in the match.
DAILY POST recalls that the Senegal team briefly walked off the pitch in protest after a controversial penalty was awarded to Morocco late in regulation time.
They were called back to the field by their captain, Sadio Mané, and later won the game 1–0.
CAF determined that this action constituted a violation of Article 84, or the equivalent regulations concerning refusal to play or abandoning the field.
Under AFCON rules, a team that refuses to continue playing or leaves the field without authorization faces elimination and forfeiture of the match.
A total of three operatives of different security agencies in Anambra State collapsed during the inauguration of Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, on Tuesday.
The incident happened during the parade at the Dr Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka.
The three operatives are one male police operative, another male operative of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) and a female operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.
The police operative collapsed first, followed by the NSCDC operative, who slumped towards the end of the event and was later escorted to an ambulance, after she refused to be moved in a stretcher.
A source said the police operative was later resuscitated, but was still not stable, and was taken in an ambulance to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka.
The collapse of the service officers was attributed to fatigue and the long period of parade under harsh sunny weather.
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