President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja said his administration will not rest in continually reviewing and strengthening ongoing reforms in the agricultural sector until Nigeria regains its pride of place as a food exporting country.

He made this known through his SSA on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu via Femi Adesina’s facebook handle.



Receiving the All Progressives Congress (APC) family from Kebbi State in the Presidential Villa, the President said about 90 per cent of some food imports into the country, which usually gulped the country’s foreign exchange reserve, had been sliced, with Nigeria now targeting self-sufficiency in food production.

“We are not doing badly in the agricultural sector and Nigerians, and the world, are beginning to appreciate our efforts. We will not be satisfied; we will work harder until we start exporting food.




“We are happy that rice and beans importation into the country have gone down by 90 per cent, and visibly everyone can see how productive states like Kebbi have turned out to be and states like Lagos, Ogun and Ebonyi are following the example,’’ he said.

He said Kaduna, Katsina and Sokoto states had already reported remarkable turn around in the agricultural sector, with more youths taking interest in entrepreneurship.


The President said he disagreed with the astronomical food import bill presented by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from the inception of the administration, pointing out that it was later discovered to be “fraudulent practices’’ by some of the elites to deplete the foreign reserves.

“When I was told that the CBN had no savings after the windfall of selling oil for more than $100 dollars per barrel for many years, and the production was 2.1 billion barrel per day, I did not believe them.

“I did not believe them because majority of Nigerians cannot afford imported food; they rely on what is locally grown. It turned out that 50 per cent of the export bills were fraudulent. That is what the Nigerian elites did.

“Unfortunately, we will not know all that happened because the elites worked in collusion with institutions in developed countries, like insurance firms and other financial outfits, to perpetuate the fraud,’’ he added.

On security, President Buhari said the return of farmers to their farm lands in the North East, with glaring results of high yields, was a testimony to the relative peace that had been achieved.

He assured that more would be done to check the mayhem of suicide attacks.

The President said his administration will put in more effort to reposition the educational and health sectors to compete with other global institutions.

In his remarks, the Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu said the APC family was pleased with the performance of the administration in securing the country, reviving the economy and fighting corruption.

Bagudu and members of the delegation, which include the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and former PDP stalwarts in Kebbi State, also prayed for the quick recovery of the President’s son, Yusuf.

NgeneUkwenu:
Ok

NgeneUkwenu:
PMB speaks, you 're SAD
PMB doesn't, you 're SAD
Boko Haram degraded, you 're SAD
Foreign Reserve rising, you 're SAD
Nigeria Is Out of recession, you 're SAD
Inflation Is dropping, you 're SAD
Ease of Doing Business., you 're SAD
Steady power supply, you 're SAD
Nigerian Stock 3rd Best performing stock, you 're SAD
Food Sufficiency You are SAD
Massive Constructions Everywhere, You Are Also Sad

Dear IPOB 5Percenters, Why Not Wait, Let's Meet At The Poll in 2019?,?

sexybaby22:
It would be nice if we can contribute more to the world than food, what about science and technology?

And I am sure other countries will also be looking for ways to grow majority of the food crops they need themselves and not resort to always buying.

NgeneUkwenu:
PMB speaks, you 're SAD
PMB doesn't, you 're SAD
Boko Haram degraded, you 're SAD
Foreign Reserve rising, you 're SAD
Nigeria Is Out of recession, you 're SAD
Inflation Is dropping, you 're SAD
Ease of Doing Business., you 're SAD
Steady power supply, you 're SAD
Nigerian Stock 3rd Best performing stock, you 're SAD
Food Sufficiency You are SAD
Massive Constructions Everywhere, You Are Also Sad

Dear IPOB 5Percenters, Why Not Wait, Let's Meet At The Poll in 2019?,?

NgeneUkwenu:
PMB speaks, you 're SAD
PMB doesn't, you 're SAD
Boko Haram degraded, you 're SAD
Foreign Reserve rising, you 're SAD
Nigeria Is Out of recession, you 're SAD
Inflation Is dropping, you 're SAD
Ease of Doing Business., you 're SAD
Steady power supply, you 're SAD
Nigerian Stock 3rd Best performing stock, you 're SAD
Food Sufficiency You are SAD
Massive Constructions Everywhere, You Are Also Sad

Dear IPOB 5Percenters, Why Not Wait, Let's Meet At The Poll in 2019?,?

LionDeLeo:

The way ipob yoot react to this eh, let me be watching.

HeyCorleone:
This man and his many talks that never come to feasibility. Only insane individuals would take anything this man or anyone from his administration say with a pinch of salt.

zionmade1:

Hmmmm
Am just coughing stop shivering
Am not about to analyze the effects of Monkey meat on the human brain.


For Buhari na promise we go chop? We are tired for all these promises. 2yrs after all we have are promises and blames.
2018-Blame pdp for increase in rice and beans importation - Buhari

NgeneUkwenu:
[s][/s]

Do you want to Atikulate here?

Saaruman:
While herds men Terrorist are wiping farmers to death across the country, a dull cow herder is talking about food export. Is vegetable pretending not to know that rising food prices and scarcity in the zoo is partly as a result of the terrorist activities of his fellow herders?

NgeneUkwenu:


You are not coherent here, are you amazed at the indisputable achievement in the Agricultural Sector?

Talk true, make you shame your ipob colleagues

NgeneUkwenu:
PMB speaks, you 're SAD
PMB doesn't, you 're SAD
Boko Haram degraded, you 're SAD
Foreign Reserve rising, you 're SAD
Nigeria Is Out of recession, you 're SAD
Inflation Is dropping, you 're SAD
Ease of Doing Business., you 're SAD
Steady power supply, you 're SAD
Nigerian Stock 3rd Best performing stock, you 're SAD
Food Sufficiency You are SAD
Massive Constructions Everywhere, You Are Also Sad

Dear IPOB 5Percenters, Why Not Wait, Let's Meet At The Poll in 2019?,?

dafeyankee:


Will you be my wife?

NgeneUkwenu:
lalasticlala what did APC do to you?

zionmade1:

Hmmmm
Am just coughing stop shivering
Am not about to analyze the effects of Monkey meat on the human brain.


For Buhari na promise we go chop? We are tired for all these promises. 2yrs after all we have are promises and blames.
2018-Blame pdp for increase in rice and beans importation - Buhari

Homeboiy:
This man has turned to a talkative

GavelSlam:


Tell the truth and let the devil be ashamed.

Has power supply not improved in your neighbourhood?

Swear with everything you have.

Homeboiy:


It reduced bro

Anybody that uses igbesanwam light will testify