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A total of 72 metric tonnes of yam will leave the shores of Nigeria for United Kingdom and the United States of America next week, the Federal Government has said.
It stated that the commencement of the raw food exportation from Nigeria would be done through the Apapa Port in Lagos next Thursday.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this at the end of a meeting with the technical committee on the Nigerian Yam Export Programme in his office in Abuja on Thursday.

Ogbeh noted that of the 72 metric tonnes to be exported in three containers of 24 metric tonnes each, one container would go to the United Kingdom, while the other two would go to the US.

The minister, according to a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Dr. Olukayode Oyeleye, assured the exporters of the government’s support and promised those who led the effort that everything spent would be refunded.

Full Story: http://www.urbanng.com/2017/06/nigerian-yam-for-export-to-uk-us-next-week.html?m=1

Hhh

Really? That is great!

Jilo83:
Really?
That is great!

Guy let me not suspect you o! What is great about a father selling the only plantain while there is no food in the house for the children?

Except they want to sent it to Buhari to sell and pay his hospital bill with the proceeds. Yet this is madness of the highest order.

Stupid people, we are seriously hungry and some children are dying of not having adequate nutrition. Yet the government is exporting food to those that have excess. I hate seeing this type of news.