Buhari Congratulates World Food Programme on 2020 Nobel Prize For Peace

President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, congratulated the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on winning the 2020 Nobel Prize for Peace.

The President said the award was “a well-deserved honour for the frontline UN agency at the forefront of addressing hunger and promoting food security,” a statement by Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, revealed.

Continuing, the statement quoted the Nigerian President as showing deep appreciation for  “the tireless work of the WFP in providing the needed succour to vulnerable and displaced persons in North-Eastern Nigeria, paying tribute to all brave humanitarian workers who lost their lives in the service of humanity.”

The President noted that the award, coming on the heels of the event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, would spur the women and men of the WFP working in very difficult terrains to continue to respond to the numerous challenges facing the world.