FIRST LADY FLAGS OFF NATIONAL COMMUNITY FOOD BANK PROGRAM IN BORNO. (PHOTO).

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 First Lady Flags Off National Community Food Bank Program In Borno  Nigeria has hit another milestone in its campaign to provide nutrition support to women and children with the launch of the National Community Food Bank program,  starting from the North East zone of the country. First Lady Oluremi Tinubu while inaugurating the very first of the food banks in Shuwari- II Primary Healthcare Centre,  Bolori in Borno State says the intervention represents a new line of protection for Nigerian children against child malnutrition  Designed to provide vulnerable children under the age of six and pregnant women with sustainable access to nutritious food, the intervention is a multi-sectoral platform that seeks to fight child malnutrition by establishing food banks around primary healthcare centres across the country and also encouraging bio-fortification of food from source.  Among many  projects undertaken by the Borno State Governor,  Prof Babagana Zu...

PEOPLE DO NOT THINK THAT I AM A NIGERIAN-ASHLEIGH PLUMPTRE. (PHOTO).


Leicester-born Ashleigh Plumptre Made her official debut for Nigeria on Friday, February 18, against Ivory Coast women’s national team in Abuja.

She helped the Super Falcons to a clean sheet and a two-goal lead ahead of the second leg in Ivory Coast. 

Plumptre has played for England’s U-15, U-17, U-19, and U-23 teams but she publicly declared her interest in playing for Nigeria in 2021.

She told the BBC, “What it will mean for me as somebody who is British born but with Nigerian heritage is huge. People look at me and they think I’m tanned and that I’ve been on holiday, they don’t think that I’m Nigerian. 

“I don’t think that should be significant in saying whether somebody is Nigerian or not because it’s in your blood, it’s not about what you look like.”


 

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