…directs CBN not to release money for food importation.

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, said his regime would continue to encourage Nigerians to go back to agriculture.

He said this has become imperative because the oil industry which Nigerians abandoned agriculture for is now in turmoil.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke at the fifth regular meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The statement was titled, ‘President Buhari: Government will wrestle food inflation in the coming year’. Shehu quoted the President as giving his words that his regime will keep a keen eye on food inflation in 2021 while giving a directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria not to give any money for food importation.

He said Buhari directed that the CBN “must not give money to import food. Already about seven states are producing all the rice we need. We must eat what we produce.”

The presidential aide said Buhari wondered where the country would have found itself by now in view of the devastating economic crisis brought about by COVID-19 if the country had not embraced agriculture.

“Going back to the land is the way out. We depend on petrol at the expense of agriculture. Now the oil industry is in turmoil. We are being squeezed to produce at 1.5 million barrels a day as against a capacity to produce 2.3 million

“At the same time, the technical cost of our production per barrel is high, compared to the Middle East production,” the President was quoted as saying,”

“We are back to the land now. We must not lose the opportunity to make life easier for our people. Imagine what would have happened if we didn’t encourage agriculture and closed the borders. We would have been in trouble,” the President added.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/nigerians-must-return-to-agriculture-says-buhari/%3famp

Baba still dey on this matter?

Ok

He said Buhari directed that the CBN “must not give money to import food. Already about seven states are producing all the rice we need. We must eat what we produce.”

Only if Buhari can swear to Nigerians that Only the Nigerian produced riced is consumed in Aso Rock and not imported rice

Not when farmers are being beheaded by your beloved terrorists

Ode

okay you too return to ur ranch and start following ur barren cow around..

Baba give us $10million grant let us develop intelligent farm tools and farming system that makes farming easy abi you no like as Prof join train dey go Abeokuta station. If you can modernized the train station you should modernized farming too. So I can use my drone to spray insecticides or use my greenhouse to grow my tomatoes but there are rooms for other innovations .

So that you will send ur boys to behead them.

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) ...........said this has become imperative because the oil industry which Nigerians abandoned agriculture for is now in turmoil.

So reality has set in right? After failing to fulfill the One-year One-refinery promise? What about rehabilitating the old ones? What about the TAM spent on these non functional refineries? What happened to the oil your govt is still desperately exploring for up north? You failed as president and minister of petroleum.

Now you're advocating agriculture? Which agriculture with the present widespread insecurity with unknown gunmen, bandits, fulani/BH terrorists on the prowl Mr president?

Thought Nigeria has attained self sufficiency in food production with many rice billionaire farmers? What about your kinsmen killing farmers? Of course the clueless president has seen the futility of the border blockade otherwise why carrying out such an unfeasible action when there is food insecurity cum inflation?

Fahdiga1:
Not when farmers are being beheaded by your beloved terrorists

Abi o.
He is a joker.

When u tame herdsmen....

Crop or Animal farming?

Racoon:

So reality has set in right? After failing to fulfill the One-year One-refinery promise? What about rehabilitating the old ones? What about the TAM spent on these non functional refineries?

Which agriculture Mr president? Thought Nigeria has attain self sufficiency in food production? What about your kinsmen killing farmers? What happened to the oil your govt is still desperate exploring for up north?

You dey mind the unserious aboki. After spending hundreds of billions prospecting for oil in the north he now realizes oil is in turmoil. Yet he still borrowing to build pipelines to the desert.

uruba23:
Baba give us $10million grant let us develop intelligent farm tools and farming system that makes farming easy abi you no like as Prof join train dey go Abeokuta station. If you modernized the train station you should modernized farming too. So I can use my drone to spray insecticides or use my greenhouse to grow my tomatoes but there are rooms for other innovations .

Any method that doesn't carry abokis along is not acceptable.
Nigeria was created from the northern and southern protectorate to carry the north along. Get that in.

I am seeing "must" quite frequently in what Bubu has been saying , I hope he's not really going to turn into a dictator

We must eat what we produce but most farmer who know nobody are not getting fertilizer or ridger, tractor, even spray chemicals from LG or Agric

We must eat what we produce, but herdsmen are having a field day with farmers, Boko haram is playing football with people's beheaded head

The border you closed didn't yeild any results, the hopes for farmers have been dashed oh and the seeds , stems , supposedly imported by this government to be distributed to farmers , that one too is voicemail

We must eat what we produce but those rice plants are not functioning 100%

When everything goes to shit , nobody will escape the fallout

CodeTemplar:
Any method that doesn't carry abokis along is not acceptable.
Nigeria was created from the northern and southern protectorate to carry the north along. Get that in.

It would definitely carry everyone along. Nigeria was created for everybody.

The north is holding this country hostage

Bullhar the wise man. He's looking for means to reduce the population at all cost. Go to farm and die there. His brethrens are already lurking all around the farms. Operation enter farm and die. Sense wee not kee bubu.

Return to agriculture and get killed

WITH THE CURRENT SPATE OF INSECURITY? IS THIS MAN TRULY ALIVE?

WITH THE CURRENT SPATE OF INSECURITY? IS THIS MAN TRULY ALIVE?

We need transportation money to return

CodeTemplar:
You dey mind the unserious aboki. After spending hundreds of billions prospecting for oil in the north he now realizes oil is in turmoil. Yet he still borrowing to build pipelines to the desert.

So much wasteful administration of the scarce resources by a clique who have been made to believe that they owe this nation.

GMBuhari:
I am seeing "must" quite frequently in what Bubu has been saying , I hope he's not really going to turn into a dictator

We must eat what we produce but most farmer who know nobody are not getting fertilizer or ridger, tractor, even spray chemicals from LG or Agric

We must eat what we produce, but herdsmen are having a field day with farmers, Boko haram is playing football with people's beheaded head

The border you closed didn't yeild any results, the hopes for farmers have been dashed oh and the seeds , stems , supposedly imported by this government to be distributed to farmers , that one too is voicemail

We must eat what we produce but those rice plants are not functioning 100%

When everything goes to shit , nobody will escape the fallout

Ha! When did you wake up from zombie trance? Wonderful something!

Bubu o! Should this be taken as clearance to enter farns? It is not when your demonic fulani brethren known as hoodlums, bandits, herdsmen, kidnappers, boko haram and criminals generally attack farmers then that heap of shitty garbage will come out to say victims did not get clearance before going to farm!

I also hope he has told them to keep their cattle away from people's farms? Abi he is seeing planted crops as a source of free food for cows he regards with the highest esteem?

And you must return to your cows...

Return to agriculture with insecurity everywhere.
This man is very funny.walahi

Return to agriculture so that the farmers can be killed by terrorists and herdsmen.

Return to farming so that herdsmen can start wandering their cow into peoples farm to eat up their crop and farm produce without any intervention.

How many of your children are into farming?

I don't mean audio farming?

You left your kids in NNPC with maximum security and job security and you are telling citizens to risk their resources, their lives and generation on farm.

You are high on kunu sir

Oniranu