Nigeria's President Tinubu declares state of emergency over food
Many farmers, especially in the north of Nigeria, have had to stop cultivation because of the threat of violence from criminal gangsNigeria's President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency to tackle rising food prices and shortages.
Concerns about food insecurity have been longstanding in Nigeria - Africa's most-populous country, which has also been battling widespread insecurity for several years. All matters relating to essential food and water will now to be the responsibility of the National Security Council, which is made up of the country's security chiefs and headed by the president., which had been in place for decades and kept the price of petroleum products low.
"My monthly pension cannot cover the cost of buying bread everyday so we have switched to another more affordable food," Mallam Ado Yahaya, from the northern state of Kano, said.
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