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Nigeria: Food Crisis Looms - Obasanjo
Daily Trust, 9 June 2020
A former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned African countries against the post-COVID-19 food crisis in Africa, urging leaders to brace up to the challenge. Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria Needs to Increase Food Production to Feed Itself, Experts Say
RFI, 27 May 2020
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has called on farmers to ramp up food production in the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, as experts indicate the continent's most populous… Read more »
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Nigeria: Produce More, We Have No Money to Import Food, Buhari Urges Farmers
Premium Times, 24 May 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerian farmers to increase their food production as Nigeria has 'no money' for food importation. Read more »
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Food Crisis Looms - NLC
Daily Trust, 12 May 2020
The Nigeria Labour Congress has raised the alarm that food crisis looms in the country, alleging restricted movement of foodstuffs at various checkpoints contrary to President… Read more »
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - NESG Urges Govt to Diversify Economy From Over-Reliance On Crude Oil
Vanguard, 5 May 2020
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) on Tuesday called on Federal Government to diversify the economy in order to increase its non-oil revenue and make the country less import… Read more »
Produce More Food, No Money for Imports, Buhari Urges Farmers
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is urging farmers to produce more food to feed the nation. Even before the novel coronavirus, the country restricted food importation as it aimed at producing most of the food locally. Borders with neighbouring countries were also shut in an attempt at stopping the illegal smugglling of goods that included rice and poultry, writes Oge Udegbunam for Premim Times.
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Nigeria has been relying solely on crude oil as its major source of revenue. Now the government has said unfolding events of the past few months, the coronavirus pandemic and the Read more »
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The slump in the U.S. crude oil price to below $0 per barrel for the first time ever, is not a reflection of the reality in the global oil market capable of impacting Nigeria's oil ... Read more »
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Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has warned that Nigerians should buckle up and prepare for real tough times in at least the ... Read more »
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Oil producer Algeria, which chairs the presidency of the OPEC Conference has been at the forefront of urging oil producing countries to seize the opportunity to agree on "a global, ... Read more »
