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The prices of food items have crashed across the country, according to Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari.

The Minister said this when he featured on an ARISE TV programme on Friday.

He said President Bola Tinubu’s interventions on food security have started yielding results.

He also defended the administration’s strategy of combining production support with temporary importation to address what he described as deep-rooted structural imbalances in the agricultural sector.

“There are tools if you want to take care of the structural imbalances in the agricultural sector,” Kyari said.

“I have said it before—even the former President of the African Development Bank during his tenure, he also imported. There are tools to manage what you already have.

“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came at a time when there was huge structural default in terms of food security and that is why he had to declare the clarion call and emergency on food security in July 2023.

“Food availability, food security is a matter of entrepreneurial availability, supply and demand. In Nigeria so much availability and demand were not there, and part of the reason for the intervention was to ramp up production and at the same time import to make up the difference, because we do not have absolute production for all food crops that we have. Rice, for example—we have about 15% gap in what we can supply and what we have in the country.”

Kyari clarified that the temporary importation window introduced by the government was meant to stabilise prices without discouraging local farmers.

“The importation window was only for six months, and it has come and gone. And that was the amount that was demanded. When you look at the global demand field, it is not enough to make farmers discouraged with agricultural production,” he said.

“For example, while that was going on, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ordered the Central Bank to release 2 million bags of fertiliser to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture for onward delivery free of charge at zero cost, and that was done. So at the end of the day, when you look at it, there were so many interventions. We had so many programmes that supported farmers with fertiliser at 50%. So, there was a lot of production in 2024.”

Tinubu had recently directed a Federal Executive Council (FEC) committee to implement urgent measures aimed at reducing food prices nationwide.

LagosOrigin:
Can Obi or can Tinubu survive ?

Tinubu is the president and if he's defeated, he will go down in history as the second incumbent defeated after Jonathan in Nigerian history.

Tinubu is the one that has so much to lose not Peter Obi.

favor914:
They wait for Tinubu to give u electricity, because he promised u, & most take responsibility indeed, he has deceived u again, & u fell for it?

Be waiting for 24 hrs electricity from Jagabanization Power Company.

CoronaVirusPro:
Nigerians still won’t be grateful to the administration of His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR).

Look at what politicians are doing to citizens of Nepal causing a revolt.

Here, we have a steadfast and dedicated leader putting things together bit by bit and still won’t demand applauses from us.

Nigerians need to rethink and know that all His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) is demanding from us is our support and patriotism.

God bless His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

oyichi:
Declare your support for tinubu openly and stop this foolishness, you can wait till heavens comes, obi will not come all the way down to your smelly gutter level, you expect him to approach this judiciary that has been bastadised?, he has more pressing issues to attend to

esnbrutality:
Tinubu is your PRESIDENT who has been called corrupt by Sowore

Bayo Onanuga confirmed he was/is a drug dealer

Reno omokiri confirmed it also

Tinubus Daughter is a serious LGBTQ Ninja

Your Problem is Peter Obi...

This Yoruba man , have some dignity and get a life

Scarrr:
😂 FG wan give Obedients free pass finally.

favor914:
Constant electricity indeed, because to you it is the Federal Government that owns the distribution companies, do you know how expensive electricity is? my neighbor dey bypass meter, it is Tinubu I should blame for the criminality abi?

The guys wey go thief transformer parts, and the ones wey carry the whole transformer, I should blame Tinubu also for the no electricity?

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has said it is not aware of anyone being in court against it over the leadership tussle.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television.

“We are not aware that anybody is in court against ADC. What we have is the completion of the administrative process of changing the leadership of the ADC.


“What we have found is that people hold press conferences and make claims as well as threats.

“But in the end, they know they can’t follow the hollowness of their standing,” he said.

DAILY POST reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday recognised the leadership of the ADC, with former Senate President David Mark as its National Chairman and former Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola as the National Secretary

Ikaeniyan0:
The court asked her to apologize, instead of apologizing she choose to appeal, she will be reinstated after the court of appeal gives a judgement on the case. Till today, she has not sued Akpabio to court for sexual assault.

She tarnished the image of Nigeria and the senate president without providing any single evidence to back up her claim. I have no pity for her, she's wicked and cruel

Ikaeniyan0:
She won't be immediately reinstated, she was asked by the court to apologize to Akpabio but she's proving to be stubborn.

Till today, she has not charge Akpabio to court for all the things she accused him of

…Warns of Threat to Democracy


The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called for the immediate reinstatement of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central, warning that continued obstruction of her return after a six-month suspension poses a threat to Nigeria’s democracy and undermines women’s participation in politics.

In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC expressed concern that preventing the senator from resuming her legislative duties violates democratic principles and disenfranchises her constituents.

“The suspension, having been imposed by the Senate and not a court of law, has lapsed. Any further attempt to prevent her from resuming is therefore both illegal and morally indefensible,” Abdullahi said.

The party noted that denying Akpoti-Uduaghan access to the chamber silences the voice of the people who elected her, adding that the withdrawal of her salary, aides, and office access during the suspension amounted to excessive punishment.

The ADC also criticised the Clerk of the National Assembly for declining to process her resumption on grounds that the matter was before the courts, arguing that the Clerk’s role was administrative, not judicial.

“Administrative caution must not translate into complicity. When the administrative machinery becomes hostage to political interests, the institution itself is diminished,” the party stated.

Highlighting that Akpoti-Uduaghan is one of only four women in the 109-member Senate, the ADC warned that the handling of the case sends a discouraging signal about gender inclusion in Nigerian politics.

“Any action that resembles gendered intimidation of the few women in the Senate would only discourage women’s participation. Nigeria cannot claim to be a democracy while excluding half of its population from key decision-making spaces,” Abdullahi added.

The ADC insisted that Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan be allowed to resume her seat immediately, stressing that the matter was about more than one individual.

“What is at stake here is not just one Senate seat, but the integrity of our democracy itself,” the party said.

Okoroawusa:
I Love President Muhammadu Buhari

I Lovehate Bola Ahmed Tinubu

‘Political cowardice’ – ADC blasts Speaker, Abbas for withdrawing remarks on Nigeria’s debt profile

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has lambasted the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, for withdrawing his earlier remarks on the country’s rising debt profile.

This was contained in a statement by the party’s spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Tuesday.

Abdullahi had accused the National Assembly of complicity in Nigeria’s growing debt crisis under President Bola Tinubu.

DAILY POST reports that the Speaker raised the alarm that Nigeria’s rising debt profile has exceeded the country’s legal threshold and now posed a major threat to fiscal sustainability.

The Speaker thereafter withdrew the remarks.

Reacting, the ADC said Abbas’s initial admission that the country’s debt-to-gross domestic product, GDP, ratio had crossed statutory limits and now stands at 52 percent was a rare moment of honesty.

However, it lamented that the withdrawal of his remarks showed political cowardice and legislative complicity.

“Like a flame in the wind, the Speaker’s statement offered a momentary flicker of the truth, only to be quickly doused by political expediency.

“Rather than standing by his remarks and on the side of the people, he chose to play safe and be politically correct,” the statement read

Kingpele:
Though we know some certain truth about tinubu but going all out to call him a criminal is not civil at all.....you could have used the word ,incompetent because he might not really mean to tell lies in Brazil

osuofia2:
Pressing obidiennts buttons as usual, Sowore

jamafa:
U people do DX severally to Tinubu.

Most of you can't take what U dish out to people

Dino Melaye, a former senator, has taunted the government of President Bola Tinubu, saying it may soon turn to Fintech operating in Nigeria for loan.

The Tinubu administration has come under intense scrutiny over borrowing.

Recently, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) said the new wave of borrowing will drive Nigeria’s public debt beyond N200 trillion before the end of the year.

In a statement, National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC accused President Tinubu of surpassing his predecessor by mortgaging the country’s future in mountains of debts in the name of economic reform.

Speaking on ARISE Television, on Monday, Melaye accused the government of plunging Nigerians into massive hunger despite securing billions of dollars in loans.

“There is massive hunger in the land. Why is the president borrowing $1.7 billion from the World Bank? Why has the senate approved $21 billion so far with many others coming for consideration?”

“This government is one of the most reckless governments in the history of this country. The president who said he wanted to come and curb wastages bought a yacht.

“That yacht he bought has never been to the perimeters, the territorial areas of Nigeria—it’s been between Monaco and Paris. And what do we need a yacht for in a time of austerity and pervasive hunger?

“He has borrowed like no other president in the history of the country. If you are making more money, then why are you borrowing? We will not be surprised if the president starts borrowing from Opay and Moniepoint very soon,” he said.