The manager, SUN Business Network, Mr. Jonathan Tench,
revealed this to NaijaAgroNet at a
one-day SUN Business Network convening in Lagos, Tuesday.
According to him, SBN Nigeria at the last count, has 53
members on the network, therefore leading in Africa.
This was the position occupied by Zambia in Africa until
Tuesday on membership of Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network.
He also told NaijaAgroNet
that the London-based SUN has over 250 companies in Africa that have signed up
on its members.
“Nigeria is coming highest in Africa beating Zambia to it,
membership of SUN,” he said.
Also speaking, the Team Coordinator for SUN Nigeria, Uduak
Igbeka urged Nigerian actors in the nutrition subsector, especially the small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) to embrace SUN and make their impacts known as
far as scaling up nutrition is concerned.
She noted that in less than a year of establishing SBN in
Nigeria, it has garnered 53 members on the network.
The event saw two sessions, namely the “Access to Finance
for Business in Nutrition” and “Supporting Partnership Sector to Contribute to
Nutrition in Nigeria” with professor of Food Science and Technology at Bells
University of Technology, Prof. Olugbenga Ogunmoyela.
Other dignitaries that graced the event included the
Director, Programmes at Civil Society, Scale Up Nutrition Nigeria (CS-SUNN) Mrs
Beatrice Eluaka, Regional Director, Ashoka, Josephine Nzerem, Director, Dangote
Foundation, Dr. Francis Aminu, Senior Programme Advisor, Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, Dr. Victor Adjero, Dr. Ndidi Nwuneli of Sahel Capital &
Partners among others.
Isaac Oyimah/GEE
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