*Buhari blames flooding, activities of middlemen, insecurity for rising cost of food items *Assures FG working on remedying situation As Muslim faithful mark this year’s Eid of Sacrifice, today, buyers and sellers of rams and other foodstuffs on Monday lamented the high cost of the animals and foodstuffs with sellers also complaining over poor patronage […]
A non-governmental organisation under the aegis of Akwa Cross based in the Netherlands has donated foodstuffs to indigenes of Mbonde Itam in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state. Presenting the food items which include rice, beans and garri on Friday to the beneficiaries, Mr. Mfon Effiong said that the donation was sent by […]
Ondo state government on Sunday, distributed foodstuffs to 250 patients on admission in three major hospitals in Akure, the state capital. The hospitals include University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH) Akure, Comprehensive Health Centre and Mother and Child Hospital, Akure. Pastor Akin Olotu, chairman of the Ondo State COVID -19 Food Palliative Committee, said […]
The Ona-Ara Community Development Area (CDA) in Kajola, Ogun dtate on Sunday, distributed foodstuffs to no fewer than 80 residents of the community to cushion the effects of the lockdown, occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic. Ona Ara community under Orilonise Community Development Council (CDC) distributed the food items to the residents. Mr Hammad Yekini, the […]
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has announced his administration’s resolve to distribute food palliatives to the people of Rivers following the sit-at-home directive to check the spread of the coronavirus. He made this known in Port Harcourt on Sunday after inspecting the state food bank established for the distribution of the food palliatives. Lagos […]
…Say food supplied was contaminated and would not go round to all in the camp …We pleaded with them to accept it, but they refused – NEMA Aggrieved Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Fufore International Transit Camp in Adamawa State have rejected the foodstuffs supplied to them by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The […]
Worried by hardship faced by widows in the society, a re-known Radio broadcaster and Presenter, Sunday Ogunsola, popularly called Tantala has empowered about 2000 widows with cash gifts and foodstuffs even as he assisted some with payment of hospital and medical bills. The founder, Sunday Ogunsola, a.k.a Tantala who is a veteran Journalist and radio […]
Mr Wale Oyekoya, the Managing Director of BAMA Farms, on Tuesday urged the federal and state governments to create an enabling environment for farming to thrive across the country. Oyekoya, in an interview with newsmen in Lagos, said that without the creation of the enabling environment, the prices of foodstuffs would continue to soar in […]
The continued increase in the prices of foodstuffs and other commodities in Nigerian markets has been largely attributed to the activities of corrupt individuals who have looted the treasury of the nation looking for ways to discredit President Muhammadu Buhari led government of the All Progressive Congress, APC due to its anti-corruption fight.Emir of Borgu […]