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The Federal Government has approved the setting up of a Task Force to address the rising cost of food items across the country.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, told State House correspondents alongside the Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun and Minister of State for Aviation Hadi Sirika.
The meeting, which was held at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, was presided over by the acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
Mohammed said the Federal Government was concerned over the exorbitant prices of the food items and is determined to something urgently to reverse the trend.
Members of the task force include the ministers of agriculture, finance, water resources and transportation.
“The council has resolved to set up task force on food security. Government is quite concerned about the rising cost of food items and the fact that more often than not, even when these products are available and are in the market, they are sold at very exorbitant prices.
“So, the government has set up a task force on food security to ensure that an end is put to the wastages that occur and with tons and tons of produce lying fallow in farms or getting rotten in markets.
“It is an inter-ministerial committee made up of the ministers of agriculture, finance, water resources, transportation,’’ he said.
Mohammed said the task force, which has one week to submit its interim report to the Council, would suggest areas of intervention by the government.
He stated that the intervention could be in the area of subsidy in transportation.
He said: “This is being worked out, but this goes to show that government is very much concerned about the rising cost of food and we are responding to it.
“The committee, hopefully, is expected to report back to council next week, and concrete actions would be taken.
In his contribution, the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, disclosed that the council had approved the procurement of 10 new coaches to boost rail transportation on the Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge railway.
Sirika said that the new coaches would enhance transportation of passengers and goods following the impending closure of the Abuja airport.
The minister revealed that the council also approved the construction of joint briefing offices in all 21 Federal Government airports across the country.
“The joint briefing offices will include the air automation and will co-locate the track-up projects, the total radar coverage, the air automation system, which include the pilot briefing offices.’’
The airport are that of Lagos, Kano, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ilorin, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Jos, Yola, Calabar, Enugu, Owerri, Kaduna, Benin, Osubi-Warri, Katsina, Zaria, Minna, Bauchi, Ibadan and Akure.

Which one be taskforce to check high cost of food again?

ok

which kind

everything na comitee...

Lai you don't only task force to check prices but you also need task force to check wrong utterances from your crew and we need good governance not task forces.
Remember you don't tell a hungry man that there is God.

baba weyrey ni bobo yii

Task force, food?

Do these people understand how economies work at all?

What manner of economic illiterates have Nigerians elected for goodness sake?!

ephi123:
Task force, food?

Do these people understand how economies work at all?

What manner of economic illiterates have Nigerians elected for goodness sake?!

All they see is a kovoki land, not a developing Nation with a potential that needs economy friendly policies that will take to the next level.

Blame Zombie brethren in diaspora and in the country.

This same thing happened in 1984

hahaha I can't fit laugh , really? na now day break? useless and clueless government with clueless and blind followers with no visions and ambition.

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It wont work! Its medicine after death. Like every other policies of the Apc Government it is not well thought out.

If you are a blind Buhari supporter, Mr. Innocent Idibia is not your problem. President Buhari is. Face him and tell him to up his game and deliver on his electoral promises. You did not elect him to run Nigeria catastrophically on auto-pilot as he is currently doing. At any rate, if you are a patriot, your loyalty will always be to Nigeria and not to any President.

...A clueless government indeed is what this apc admin is..Apc should kindly take some lessons on economics and stop this rubbish they are doing ...Their useless and kindergarten policies are what put us in the mess we are in right now.

...Mscheww task force my foot!

...I really miss the former Minister for Agriculture..Mr Adesina

It shouldnt be a task force, but a 10 man committee. ..govt of old retards

How e no go increase now,when pms is high,transportation cost is high,to transport crops from the farm to the market no easy ,fertilizer is 300% high from the previous years,Nigerians are naturally greedy sha they always find any opportunity to make a million,wetin join orange or palmoil seller with dollar and dollar is $500 to 1Naira.