Picture Story: Highlights from Hajia Aisha Buhari's NGO #GetInvolved cocktail

Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha shows support for Aisha Buhari's Get Involved project against malnutrition

Unknown infection affects 41 children, kills nine, in Abuja

According to a report by Daily Trust, an unknown disease has affected several children in Abuja.

Over 5 million Nigerian children don't get breast milk at birth -UNICEF

More than 5 million newborns in Nigeria are deprived of essential nutrients and antibodies that protect them from disease and death as they are not being exclusively breastfed said UNICEF today, as it marks World Breastfeeding Week.

Photos of starving Nigerian children in UNICEF nutrition clinic

Images of  starving Nigerian children in Muna, a suburb on the outskirts of Maiduguri has surfaced, The United Nation's children’s agency, UNICEF runs a nutritional clinic and the pictured were taken by Stefan Heunis, a Freelance photographer based in Lagos.

Mind the cookies: Emotional eating is a habit that can start from childhood

Food can be an extremely effective tool for calming young children. If they are bored on a long car journey, or fed up with being in the pushchair, many parents use snack foods to distract them for a little longer. 

You may want to reconsider putting your kids on gluten-free diets after this report

Some medical experts say putting children on a gluten-free diet without talking to a doctor first might be damaging to their health.

Breastfeed your baby for 6 months and it will prevent child killer diseases- Nigerian expert

Six months of exclusive breast-feeding will save 800,000 under five children from childhood killer diseases, an expert has disclosed.

What you ate as a child may have an impact on your social development and make you more socially active

Eating a healthy diet as a child may have an impact on your social development and make you more friendly and socially active, according to a new study out of the University of Pennsylvania.