FILE PHOTO: Yaanama Abba, a 45-year-old mother of six children, receives pinto beans distributed by WFP in Mafa LGA, Borno State, Nigeria, July 16, 2025. Damilola Onafuwa, WFP Nigeria Communications Service/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
ABUJA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Nearly 35 millionNigerians are at risk of hunger this year, including 3 million children facing severe malnutrition, the United Nations said on Thursday, following the collapse of global aid budgets.
Speaking at the launch of the 2026 humanitarian plan in Abuja, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Mohamed Malick Fall said the long-dominant, foreign-led aid model in Nigeria is no longer sustainable and that Nigeria's needs have grown.
