The presidency has warned that Nigeria, Africa's largest producer of cereals and grains, risks famine from early next year following a huge demand in the global market targeting the country's surplus production.
Giving the grim forecast in a radio interview in Kano on Monday, a spokesman for the President, Garba Shehu, told Pyramid radio that the "huge demand for our grains in the global market is creating an excellent environment for the mindless export of Nigerian food across our borders and unless this is curtailed, Nigerian markets will be bereft of grains by January next year."
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