
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and the 36 member states of the Federation have each received 20 trucks full of rice from the federal government.
Following the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Monday, Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, made this revelation.
According to the minister, this is the first action the government is taking to alleviate the nation’s food crisis.
He pleaded with the governors to make sure that the most disadvantaged members of society received the grains in an efficient manner.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s inflation figure has reached a new high, hitting 34.19% for June 2024, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
As expected, there was a rise in food inflation for June 2024 in comparison with the figure recorded in May 2024.
“On a month-on-month basis, the Food inflation rate in June 2024 was 2.55% which shows a 0.26% increase compared to the rate recorded in May 2024 (2.28%),” the NBS report read.
According to the NBS, this hike was triggered by a rise in the average prices of food items such as groundnut oil, palm oil, etc (oil & fats class), water yam, cocoyam, cassava, etc (potatoes, yam & other tubers class), tobacco, catfish fresh, croaker, mudfish fresh, snail, etc, (fish class).