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Blockade: DAWN Commission Meets South-West Agric Commissioners Over Food Crisis The DAWN Commission Director-General, Mr Seye Oyeleye, held the emergency meeting on Tuesday, which was aimed at providing solutions to the food crisis – particularly products coming from northern Nigeria which had stopped due to the lingering herders-farmers’ violence in the region. by SaharaReporters, New York Mar 02, 2021 The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria Commission has met with the Commissioners of Agriculture in the South-West states over the looming food crisis in the region as a result of the b...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Reporters Some southern state governments and farmers have dismissed the blockade by northern food suppliers, saying it is an opportunity for the South to  boost its food production capacity. Officials of the states including Lagos, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Enugu and Ondo in separate interviews with The PUNCH, on Monday explained their actions to ensure self-sufficiency in food and animal production. But Ondo and Cross Rivers states went further to take a swipe at the northern food suppliers, saying they would not beg the traders to end their blockade, wh...

Share Business operators in Kwara and neighbouring states have heaved a sigh of relief as free movement of goods and traffic has been achieved after some hoodlums reportedly blocked the Ilorin-Jebba expressway at the weekend. It was reported at the weekend that truckloads of food items from the northern parts of the country were denied entry into Kwara State and other states of the South West. Tribune Online investigation had revealed that some Hausa youths, stationed at outskirts of Niger State, popularly called Kara-Jebba, near Jebba in Kwara State, between last Thursday and Friday, stopped...

Akinwale Aboluwade There are speculations about a hike in prices of food stuffs as Northerners traders, cattle dealers have begun to divert items to neighbouring Niger Republic and Cameroon. This came following the recent crisis that left many Yoruba and Hausa casualties in the trail of the clash at Shasha Market in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Unconfirmed report has it that some elements have begun to block the trade routes to the South and several truckloads of food items are being prevented from being transported. A report indicated that trucks carrying food items down South from the nor...

Friday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba, Tope Omogbolagun and Tunde Oyekola The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria has commenced...