More than 17 million Nigerians are facing acute hunger, according to new data from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has seized on the figures to accuse President Bola Tinubu’s administration of engineering a humanitarian crisis through policy failures.
The WFP report underscores a deteriorating social safety net in Africa’s largest economy.
While the opposition frames the hunger statistics as a direct result of current government strategy, the data points to a broader structural collapse in food access and affordability.
For investors, this signals intensifying domestic instability that could further erode consumer confidence and complicate macroeconomic stabilization efforts.
This development adds to a mounting list of governance challenges for the Tinubu administration.