Tag: Food
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Biliri crisis update: Our children, wives detained daily by police without food, Tangales cry out
By Emman Ovuakporie Tangales in Biliri Local Government of Gombe State are not happy over the manner security operatives are detaining children and their wives without food. TheNewsguru.com, (TNG) reports the update on recent developments after President Muhamnadu Buhari called for caution in the on-going leadership tussle in Biliri. Sources close to the community leaders…
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I went below poverty line in 2020 – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale “…the CBN must not give money to import food. Already about seven states are producing all the rice we need.” President Buhari, December 2020. God knows I want Buhari to remain President until 2023 because, unsettling as that might be for some people, it is the best of all options before us.…
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2021: Buhari tasks CBN on roadmap to end food inflation in Nigeria
President Muhammadu Buhari has given a marching order to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, not to give any money for food importation in the New Year. Buhari said his administration would keep a keen eye on food inflation in the New Year while giving a strong directive to the CBN. Speaking at the fifth…
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![#EndSARS protesters reject food, drinks contributed by MC Oluomo [VIDEO]](https://thenewsguru.ng/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SARS1-1.jpg)
#EndSARS protesters reject food, drinks contributed by MC Oluomo [VIDEO]
Anger, disdain was written on the faces of #EndSARS protesters at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday when they rejected food and drinks sent by the Chairman of the National Union of the Road Transport Workers in the state, Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo. Their action was in reaction to the attack perpetrated…
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Buhari orders CBN not to release funds for food, fertilizer importation
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN ”not to issue a kobo” of the country’s reserves for the importation of food items and fertilizer. This is as the Federal Government rolls out the Economic Sustainability Plan and sets goal for National Food Security. At a meeting of the National Food…
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FG borrows food from ECOWAS to feed Nigerians
The Nigerian Government has disclosed that it borrowed over 5,000 metric tonnes of grain from ECOWAS to feed citizens. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Baba-Shehuri on Monday. He stated this while receiving the 3,999 tonnes of cereals donated to Nigeria by ECOWAS. According to Shehuri, “The…
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Nigeria has no money for food importation – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Nigerian farmers on the need to embark on massive productive agricultural activities this farming season as Nigeria has no money for food importation. The president gave the challenge shortly after observing this year’s Eid prayer alongside members of his family and few presidential aides at the presidential villa, Abuja, on…
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COVID-19: Prices of food worldwide drop 3.4% in April
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has disclosed that prices of food worldwide dropped by 3.4 percent for the third consecutive month in April as the coronavirus pandemic took a hit on demand. In a report released on Thursday, the United Nations food agency said that food price index, which measures monthly changes for a…
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![COVID-19 Lockdown: Food, liquor stores looted in South Africa [Photo]](https://thenewsguru.ng/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/looting-in-South-Africa.jpg)
COVID-19 Lockdown: Food, liquor stores looted in South Africa [Photo]
A number of food and liquor stores have been looted in South Africa amid a strict national lockdown that was put in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Incidents were reported in several locations on the outskirts of Cape Town near the Gugulethu township, where many people lived in poverty even before…
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Adamawa IDPs reject NEMA’s food intervention
The aggrieved Internally Displaced Persons in Fufore International Transit camp, in Adamawa, have rejected the foodstuffs supplied to them by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the IDPs on Wednesday staged a protest over shortage of food in the camp They said NEMA had not supplied food…