President Muhammadu Buhari has intervened in the outbreak of malnutrition at the Bama internally displaced persons, IDPs, camp with the delivering of drugs and food items.
The United Nations says Nigeria will be losing five children every hour at IDP camps across the country if nothing is done to scale up interventions for food and medicare at the various camps.
Internationally renowned charity group, doctors without borders, MSF says about 200 refugees fleeing Boko Haram militants have starved to death over the past month in Bama, Borno State.