The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has identified insecurity as one of the major factors fueling malnutrition in Nigeria. The global organization cautioned that the country’s development efforts would come to naught if decisive actions were not taken to tame the menace. “UNICEF Nutrition Specialist, Mrs. Ngozi Onuora, who raised the concern during a” Community of Practice” workshop, said with over 17 million malnutrition burden, Nigeria ranked the highest in Africa and faced the prospect of not meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs. She said: “As the pivot for health, nutrition should be the anchor of every action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs.” The governments, everybody, the private sector should be made aware of their various contributions to scale up nutrition interventions and address the issues of stunting, issues of wasting, issues of underweight and issues of anaemia that are besieging our children and mothers. “While lamenting the high burden of malnutrition in the northern part of the country, Mrs. Onuora said: “I think that while their cases have always been for a long time, a lot of convergent actions have been in the north.