The most encouraging thing about the nutrition financing initiative is not that it addresses a ₦500 billion funding gap. It is that it reflects a growing recognition that Nigeria’s challenges are interconnected and that their solutions must be as well… If nutrition is too important to be left to the health sector alone, then security is too important to be left to the security sector alone.
Most subscribers to newsletters know the routine. The latest edition arrives in your inbox. You glance at the headline, perhaps skim the opening paragraphs, tell yourself you will return to it later. And then it joins dozens of other unread publications in the forgotten corner of your email where good intentions go to die.
I suspect many newsletters spend more time being archived than being read. But every now and then a headline arrests you. Something about it suggests there is more beneath the surface than first appears.
That happened to me on a recent Sunday morning when the latest edition of StakeBridge Media landed in my inbox carrying the headline, “Nigeria Moves Nutrition Policy From Donor Aid To Domestic Finance.”
As someone who has followed StakeBridge Media for some time and even publicly reviewed the publication, I expected a thoughtful analysis. What I did not expect was that an article about nutrition financing would leave me reflecting on national security.
