A statement by the World Bank Nigeria in Abuja, quoted the President, JIM YONG KIM, disclosing the effort to raise one point six billion dollars to build social protection systems to end food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen.
He said the World Bank is mobilizing an immediate response for Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development –reported that Nigeria was one of the countries that would suffer famine, food shortage and malnutrition.
