Tag: Food Items
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Yuletide: Ashakah gifts N25 million cash, food items to Ozoro residents
As the festive season enveloped the serene town of Ozoro in Delta State, an illustrious son of the soil, Engr Ashakah Orobosa, has distributed over N25 million cash to 200 market women, 120 widows and bags of rice, groundnut oil to PDP women, Ashakah ladies and other women groups in the community. Ashakah, a former…
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Many Abuja residents may celebrate Christmas on empty stomachs as costs of food items hit rooftop
The harsh economic situation
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[Video] Lagosians break into Covid-19 palliatives’ warehouse, cart away food items
Hundreds of residents in Lagos, on Thursday, began carting away food items stacked in a warehouse in Monkey Village, Maza maza, in Amuwo Odofin. The food items, which were labelled ‘CACOVID, NOT FOR SALE,’ include bags of rice, macaroni, spaghetti, salt, garri, sugar and cartons of noodles. CACOVID (Coalition Against COVID-19), launched in March this…
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Why prices of food items continue to rise in Nigeria
Dr Tunde Arosanyin, a farmer, has identified insecurity, farmers/herdsmen clashes, poor mechanisation and unstable government policies as factors responsible for the high cost of food items. Arosanyin, a former Chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Kogi told NAN on Tuesday that other variables included poor credit facility to farmers, and negative…
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Photos: National Refugee Commission Distributes Food Items, Palliatives, Clothes in 11 States
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), under the leadership of Honourable Federal Commissioner, Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed is set to distribute another set of food items, clothes, academic materials, agricultural facilities and palliatives in 11 more states. According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity…
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COVID-19: PETAN donates food items to 10 Communities in Rivers, gets NCDMB support [Photos]
As part of their efforts to give succour to members’ host communities, the Petroluem Association of Nigeria (PETAN) with the support of Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has donated food palliatives to 10 members host communities in Rivers State, Saturday, April, 18th. Speaking during the distribution of the food palliatives by members, the Chairman…
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Prices of food items increase, as inflation rate drops in Nigeria
Composite food index rose by 13.28 per cent in October 2018 compared to 13.31 per cent in September 2018, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the NBS attributed the rise in the food index to increases in prices of fruits, meat, vegetables, potatoes, yam and other tubers, bread…