This is as it noted that another 24,000 bags of the 25kg rice has been added to the federal government’s donation to increase the quantity
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Each state including the FCT is given 20 trucks containing 1,200 bags of 25kg for a truck and the rice is to be distributed to the most vulnerable in the society.
The NBS said this in its Selected Food Prices Watch report for March 2024, which was released in Abuja on Friday.
The Company Secretary of NASCON, A. A. Samuel, disclosed this in a notification sent to the Nigerian Exchange Limited.
The Bureau said this in its Selected Food Prices Watch report for February 2024 released in Abuja on Saturday.
The Eagle Online recalls that the Controller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, flagged off the sake of the rice.
The State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun stated this while speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting in Abeokuta.
The traders spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday, in Lagos.
December is again around the corner, I want to look at the current hardships facing Nigeria and suggest potential solutions to address these pressing issues.
Now, whenever there is scarcity of essential foodstuffs, households with incomes below the poverty line are the most affected. On the entire population, the effects of food shortage will lead to unhealthy struggle or competition all over, increased insecurity, emigration, increasing health issues, high mortality, declining reproduction, increasing food robbery cases in communities, marauders and bandits displacing and disrupting production process. The UN-WFP attested to this with the declaration in its findings that “behind the massive statistics are children, women and men suffering from the dire effects of such severe hunger. Malnourished mothers give birth to malnourished babies, passing hunger from one generation to the next.”
In what was an attempt to ensure non-partisanship, fairness and equity, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on August 22 inaugurated the 12-person committee to coordinate the distribution of the palliatives purchased with the N2bn so far received from the Federal Government.
The wife of Ekiti Governor, Dr Yemi Oyebanji, has expressed commitment to improving the lives of the less privileged people through her pet project, Widows and Orphans Hope (WAOH) in the state.
This is part of his nationwide broadcast on Monday.
The State’s spokesman, Bright Edafe, said that on the 12th of March 2023 at about 9:am, operatives of Eagle-Net Special Squad, while on intensive Aberdeen system of patrol, sighted a tricycle with registration number RRU 773 QK, conveying three male occupants.
The Commanding Officer, FOB, Navy Capt. Muhammed Kabiru, made this known in Ibaka Friday while handing over the suspects and bags of rice to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).
Aliyu, whose address is unknown, is facing a count charge of stealing.
The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
The complainant, Musa, told the court that he gave Muhammed one bag of rice on credit to resell.
Witnesses said the vehicle of the Customs officials ploughed into a gathering while chasing the suspected rice smugglers, killing five
Lately, the online media was inundated with video clips of bags of rice bearing the photographs of Bola Tinubu allegedly being distributed in the North, ostensibly in furtherance of his 2023 presidential ambition.