Food crisis
28 Mar
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election has expressed apprehension over the looming hunger and famine occasioned by activities of bandits and terrorists, which have continued to deny farmers access to their farms.
17 Mar
Despite Federal Government’s ‘interventions’, Nigerians will need to brace up for more weeks of hunger and high cost of food items.
12 Mar
Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to consider reopening of Nigeria’s borders to ease food crisis. Yusuf made the appeal when he received the Comptroller General of Nigerian Customs Service
11 Mar
The 36 state governors have unveiled what they called “strategic and proactive” steps towards combating the food and economic crises in the country.
9 Mar
The Federal government has directed the enforcement of all extant laws prohibiting exportation of grains from Nigeria to ensure food stability and sufficiency in the country.
25 Feb
As the Federal Government continues to throw various solutions at the food crisis in the country occasioned by its twin policies of petrol subsidy removal and floating of the naira, there are indications that its interventions may yield little harvest.
22 Feb
Oyo State governor and Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, ‘Seyi Makinde, has declared that there is no truth in the claim by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, that states of the federation got additional N30 billion each outside of their statutory revenue allocations, to address the food insecurity challenges in their…
21 Feb
To combat escalating food prices in the country, plans are underway by the Federal Government to release fresh 60,000 tonnes of grains to complement the 42,000 tonnes earlier released from its silos.
19 Feb
The Yoruba Youth Socio-Cultural Association (YYSA) has said the hike in prices of food items in the country is more artificial than economic theory-driven.
Food crisis: Set up taskforce to tackle saboteurs in grains distribution, APC chieftain tells Tinubu
18 Feb
Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has urged President Bola Tinubu, to set up a special taskforce for the distribution of the approved 42,000 metric tonnes of grains from strategic reserved to Nigerians. Oyintiloye, while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, said that setting up of…
15 Feb
Desperate Nigerians have been protesting against soaring food prices as an economic crisis forces people to skip meals and eat poor-grade rice used as fish food.
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