Hunger in Post-Military Nigeria: Annotations, Causes and Consequences, 1999 - 2015

Abstract

The attention of this paper is focused on “Hunger in Post-Military Nigeria: Annotations,
Causes and Consequences, 1999-2015”. Food intake is of indispensable importance to
mankind. This stems from the fact that food nourishes the human body and gives it strength
and energy through the supply of requisite nutrients such as carbohydrate, fat, protein,
minerals, vitamins and water. Without food and proper nutrition, man dies off eventually. This,
perforce, makes the primacy of food quite crucial to human existence, growth and
development. However, the noted albatross of proper feeding and nutrition is hunger, both in
its overt and hidden forms. The country became consistently and “progressively” ill-fated as
it was confronted with the biting fangs of hunger with negative consequential ramifications.
The information baseline for this paper is largely predicated on secondary sources materials
from an array of typologies. The paper found out that the causes of hunger within the
periodisation of the paper were quite legion. However, these are subsumed under historical,
exogamous and endogamous factors.