Nigeria, June 11 -- The Gombe State government and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have unveiled a N1 billion intervention aimed at tackling acute malnutrition among children across the state.

The intervention, funded through a counterpart arrangement in which both the state government and UNICEF contributed N500 million each, will provide Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for the treatment of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

Speaking during a monitoring exercise of the nutrition commodities, the Executive Secretary of the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Abdulrahman Shuaibu, described malnutrition as one of the most serious public health challenges confronting the state.

Mr Shuaibu s...