Israel’s actions in Gaza have been described as a humanitarian crisis, with the country using starvation as a weapon of war. The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, further, accused the Israeli government of deliberately denying civilians in Gaza...
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Many residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), say they are finding it difficult to feed due to the high cost of food items. The residents also lamented further increase in transportation fares following the increase in the Pump Price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol....
The Cadre Harmonisé (CH) Report for October has predicted that at least 33.1 million people in 26 states and the FCT would face food and nutrition crisis between June and August 2025. The prediction came from the CH Analysis Report released on Friday in Abuja. The analysis was conducted...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that prices of essential food items, including beans, eggs, bread, rice, and tomatoes, experienced significant increases in September 2024. The NBS said this in its Selected Food Prices Watch report for September 2024 released in Abuja on Wednesday. The report said that...
President Bola Tinubu has said his administration is taking appropriate measures to reduce the cost of living. The President said this in his Independence Day broadcast on Tuesday. “The central concern of our people today is the high cost of living, especially food costs. This concern is shared by...
Sen. Ali Ndume (APC-Borno) has decried the level of corruption in Nigeria, saying the trend is a major challenge facing the nation. Ndume stated this during an interactive session with newsmen in Kano on Saturday. “Our major challenge in this country is corruption. Up till now, we have no...
Labour Party presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, has said that prioritising investment in agriculture is a sure way of tackling hunger and insecurity in Africa. The former Governor of Anambra was speaking as a panellist at an international conference on food security in Kigali,...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has urged the Federal Government to resolve the rising food prices and hardship in the country. In a communique issued at the end of a week-long second Plenary Meeting of the CBCN held in Auchi Diocese, Edo, the clerics urged the federal...
Some residents of Kaduna, Kano and Katsina States say they are yet to receive the rice recently donated to the states by the Federal Government to them. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Federal Government had doled out 20 trucks of rice to the 36 states...
Renowned Professor of History and African Studies, Toyin Falola, has said President Bola Tinubu led government has failed to address the major triggers for the #EndBadGovernance protests that reverberated in most states in Nigeria earlier in August. The septuagenarian professor at the University of Texas was...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Farmers in Benue State who are experiencing serious drought for a number of weeks have started lamenting the devastating effect of the drought. Already food and cash crops cultivated are fast weathering away over the prolonged absence of rain in the farming...
In the aftermath of the recent nationwide hunger protests, the prices of cooking gas and food items have skyrocketed in Kaduna. Prices of goods such as provisions, grains and other staple food items are rising steadily in markets and shops across the board. Checks by a News...
Once more, food insecurity and the hunger crisis have forced Nigeria to face a crossroads. Protests have erupted across the nation, and young people are going on the rampage in numerous states, resulting in sorrows, tears, and blood. At least 20 lives have been tragically lost due to...
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, on Thursday urged President Bola Tinubu to revisit some of his policies to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians. George, who gave the advice while addressing a new conference on state of...
The country’s hunger protests have brought about a great deal of sorrow, violence, and property destruction, which have taken a toll. Over twenty lives have been lost. These tragedies could have been prevented if better coordination and cooperation had existed between the government, security services, and protesters. Sadly, if...
Information Minister Mohammed Idris, has said that President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s primary goal is to rectify poor policies and dysfunctional choices that have historically hindered Nigeria’s progress. Idris made this known while briefing the Diplomatic Community on the nationwide protest on Wednesday in Abuja. Idris said: “Tinubu is...
Some residents of Katsina State came out en masse to observe a special prayer session to seek Allah’s intervention against the lingering economic hardship and insecurity in the state. The prayer session, which was held on Tuesday at the premises of Katsina Arabic Teachers College playground, was...
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Abubakar Kyari has said the country is expecting a bumper harvest before year-end. Food inflation has reached 40 per cent according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), pushing the prices of essential commodities beyond the reach of millions...
I set my alarm clock for this morning to ensure that I did not miss President Bola Tinubu’s impatiently awaited address to the nation on the current unrest across the nation. His outline of government’s remedial action since inception, aimed at warding off just such an outbreak, will...
The much-publicised nationwide protest against bad governance began across states of the federation on Thursday in different magnitudes and dimensions. The protest with hashtag #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria is planned to end on Aug. 10. It is aimed at drawing Federal Government’s attention to the economic hardship facing Nigerians. Most states...