•A truck conveying bags of rice The federal government has donated 20 trucks of rice to the 36 state governors and the federal capital territory for onward distribution to Nigerians. Addressing state House Reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting today, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the ric...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke has suspended his Senior Special Assistant, SSA, on civil societies, Comrade Emmanuel Adebisi over the alleged diversion of 70 bags of rice. The civil society coalition in the state through its Secretary, Comrade Olowu Emmanuel had disclosed that the bags of rice collected in their...
•Police A 23-year-old scavenger simply identified as Nura was reportedly manhandled by a mob for allegedly stealing a pot of rice at Kango community in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). A resident of Kango, Ayuba Iliya, said the incident happened on Tuesday around 11:23am when the scavenger allegedly took away the [&hel...
•Garri The price of cassava flakes, popularly known as garri and rice have recorded more than a 50 per cent increase in Enugu metropolis. Our correspondent, who conducted a market survey today in Enugu, observed that prices of foodstuffs such as garri and rice have increased by 50 per cent in the metropolis, reports NAN. […]
•Customs officers with bags of rice In a move to alleviate the hardship Nigerians are facing due to the skyrocketing prices of food, the Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo/Ogun Command, has announced plans to begin another round of distribution of seized rice and other food items to citizens as soon as the federal government finalises the […]...
•Bags of rice The average price of 1kg of local rice sold loose jumped by a whopping 98 per cent in one year, according to data obtained from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The report ‘Selected Food Prices Watch (January 2024)’, said the rise indicated a rise of 98 per cents in price on […]
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) announced yesterday the temporary suspension of the food disposal initiative that commenced last Friday. This decision follows a stampede that occurred, resulting in fatalities and injuries to several potential beneficiaries. In a statement signed yesterday by the NCS National Spokesman, Abdullahi Maiwada, the...
•Governor Dapo Abiodun In a bid to cushion the effect of the rise in the prices of goods in the country, the Ogun State Government has purchased 100 truckloads of rice to be sold at cheaper rates to residents of the state. The state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, stated this yesterday while speaking at a […]
•Bags of rice This is not the best of times for Nigerian families, who have had to adopt bizarre cost-cutting measures to cope with the recent hardship occasioned by the dramatic hike in the prices of goods and services. Several of them lamented that their income could no longer take care of their daily needs, […]
•Pastor Clement Adebisi Pastor Clement Adebisi, the husband of one of the teachers of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, kidnapped in Ekiti State a fortnight ago, shares with Saturday PUNCH the family’s trauma while the episode lasted. Congratulations on your wife’s freedom. How did you feel that Monday on learning of the [&...
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