Buhari on "Nigeria food crisis": Spaghetti pasta, vegetable, Egusi soup to grocery & restaurants - "Food" prices go continue to increase inside Nigeria in coming months?
Food prices nowadays just dey too high inside Nigeria, for instance 50 Kg bag of rice dey sell for much as N34,000 ($89) as of July 2020 up from about N26,500 ($70) for January, according to di Nigeria Bureau of Statistics.
Presido Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday meet govnors and oda stakeholders of di economy sake of food security palava inside Nigeria. Tori be say sake of covid-19 palava, flood and attacks on farmers e be like say Nigeria food fit no dey yanfuyanfu again, and if goment fail to take di right action di mata go worst pass as e dey. During di National Food Security Council meeting wey happun for State House Abuja, Buhari say food security na one of di topmost agenda im administration wan achieve but flood no help mata as e scata all di progress dem don make so far. Millions of Nigerians dey spend more on food items since March, 2020 At di moment, prices of food items from spaghetti pasta, vegetable to grocery & chop chop for restaurants dey increase dey go inside di west African nation wey get plenti farm land. Now wey di Nigerian leader don do meeting ontop di mata, wetin go change in di coming months? President Buhari afta di National Food Security Council meeting cut strong warning for di kontri central bank (CBN) say make dem no give foreign currency alias forex wey include Dollars, Pounds or Euros to anybodi to import food into Nigeria, sake of how di rising cost of food don be. Buhari insist say local food production na di way forward. President Muhammadu Buhari believe say to allow abled bodu men to go back to farm and agriculture na im be answer to Nigeria food crisis Prices of food go continue to rise for coming months? Food and Agriculture agency don predict say about 22 million Nigerians go dey hungry for 2020. Two sabi pipo wey be experts on economy mata, Oga Alexa Wilcox and Dr Sam Amadi, Director of Public Policy and Research follow BBC pidgin tok about dis "Nigeria food crisis". Di two economic experts say prices of food go continue to dey rise because of some factors wey include di following: Pipo wey dey sell food no join for di lockdown How price of food stuff fit reduce Di experts reason say price of food stuff go continue to dey go up if goment and stakeholders no find quick solution to address am. Dem suggest make goment implement policies wey go involve everybody, no be only farmers but everyone wey dey di food chain. Dem advise goment to: Women for farm Nigeria Food President Buhari meet six govnors and odas sake of di food crisis mata on Thursday for Aso Rock. Oga Buhari explain say on top dis food security mata, dem don arrange thousands of security pipo wey dem call Agro rangers wey go boost di confidence of farmers and also protect farm produce. Di presido say anoda thing wey goment wan do na to include rural farmers for everything wey dem dey try achieve, dem go give farmers wey dey village access to different kain credits and build feeder roads to helep dem. He also say dem don build one house wey dem fit keep grains make e for no spoil.