Four persons today died in a stampede during an almsgiving zakat exercise for the poor in Bauchi State. The stampede occurred at the Shafa Holdings Company plc headquarters along Jos Road, today, reports Sunday Vanguard. A 17-year-old identified as Naima Abdullahi, is currently receiving medical treatment at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Universi...
•Food grains Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has directed that ‘Ounje Eko’ food markets commence operations from tomorrow, Sunday, March 17, 2024 across Lagos. The markets have been tasked with selling discounted food items across the five divisions. Here’s a full list of the produce prices at the food market: 5kg bag of rice – N5,325 [&he...
Many have asked, what is this Bulk Purchase Agency by Akwa Ibom State bringing to the table? With the signing of the Bulk Purchase Agency Bill into law by the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, expectedly that would be the question, like a refrain on the lips of many Akwa Ibom people? […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has intercepted 21 food trucks heading to neighbouring countries. Announcing the seizure in a statement on its X handle yesterday, the anti-graft agency said the items were heading towards N’djamena, Chad Republic, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. The seizure was made by operatives of ...
More facts emerged over the Sunday looting of a private warehouse in the Karmo community of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It was reported how some hoodlums in their numbers attacked a government warehouse in Gwagwa town, as well a private one, owned by a trader in neighbouring Karmo town, all located within Abuja Municipal […]
•Peter Obi Amidst the food price hike and economic hardship besetting the nation, the government of Ukraine recently donated 25,000 tonnes of wheat as emergency food assistance to 1.3 million vulnerable, crisis-affected people in Nigeria’s northeastern region, a development which Mr Peter Obi has now described as disheartening. Obi who was the...
•TUC president, Festus Osifo The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has asked the federal government to begin the importation of food in two weeks to mitigate the soaring prices of food across the country. This was disclosed by the President, TUC, Festus Osifo, during a press conference on the economic hardship ravaging the country today [&hellip...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said today that the headline inflation rate increased year-on-year (YoY) by 0.98 percentage points to 29.9 per cent in January 2024 from 28.92 per cent in December 2023. The Bureau disclosed this in its Consumer Price Index, CPI, report for January 2024, noting that food inflation also increased to [&hel...
•Protest in northern Nigeria 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. To feed their children, women in northern Nigeria have even resorted to digging up anthills in search of grain stored by the insects, according to [&helli...
The federal government said yesterday it was considering importation of food as a critical option on the table to halt the high cost of items in the country in order to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians. In the interim, the government has ordered the immediate release of 102,000 metric tonnes of rice and maize from […]
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