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Vendors display food for sale at a market in Mowe, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria, on April 19, 2021. – Nigeria’s economy was already struggling with a fall in the price of oil, Nigeria’s major export, and a weak local naira currency, before the global pandemic struck.Now Nigeria’s inflation has soared to a four-year high of more than 18 percent in March 2021, with food prices up 22.9 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)Worried about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s agriculture sector, the organisers of this year’s Feed Nigeria Summit (FNS) say this edition is targeted at resuscitating the country’s disrupted food system. ....
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Punch Newspapers Sections Kindly share this story: A cross-section of the rescued students of Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State. Source: Femi Adesina s Facebook Page Abduction, most traumatic period of our lives –Parents Our Reporters Some of the 344 schoolboys kidnapped in Katsina State by suspected bandits and released on Thursday, six days later have recounted their experiences in the den of the kidnappers. The pupils were kidnapped last Friday from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara. Boko Haram had on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping though some government officials had refuted the claim that the terrorist group was involved in the mass abduction. ....
The Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, on Friday reacted to the release of boys kidnapped from Kankara in Katsina State. Afenifere’s National Public Secretary, Yinka Odumakin said the use of Miyetti Allah in the release of the students was an indication that Nigeria was finished. Odumakin, in a statement faulted the accounts of the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari on the abduction and release of the students. Gunmen had last week abducted some students of the GSSS in the Kankara area of Katsina State. Though Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the abduction but Masari dismissed it, saying bandits were responsible for the kidnap. ....