President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on winning the 2020 Nobel Prize for Peace.
President Buhari, in a statement issued on Friday by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the award is a well-deserved honour for the frontline UN agency at the forefront of addressing hunger and promoting food security.
The President, who saluted what he called the tireless work of the WFP in providing the needed succour to vulnerable and displaced persons in North-Eastern Nigeria, paid tribute to all brave humanitarian workers who lost their lives in the service of humanity.
Buhari said the award, coming on the heels of the event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, will continue to spur the women and men of the WFP working in very difficult terrains to continue to respond to the numerous challenges facing the world.
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