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Food blockade: Yahaya Bello resolved what would’ve become a crisis, says IPMAN

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) says by intervening in the blockade of food supply from north to the south, Yahaya Bello, Kogi governor, helped to resolve what would have

Gani Adams: Food blockade is wake-up call on south-west to invest in agric

Gani Adams, Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, has called on governors of south-west states to inject at least 15 percent of their annual budget into agriculture to forestall future food blockade.

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Newspaper Headlines: Nigeria sinking under weight of petrol subsidy and trucks return to Apapa highway

The order of President Muhammadu Buhari that bandits wielding Ak-47 rifles should be shot on sight made the headlines in many Nigerian newspapers. Although cattle and foodstuff traders have suspended

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Yahaya Bello: Demands of northern traders must be met to prevent another blockade

Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, has called on the federal government to meet the demands of the Amalgamated Union of Food and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN). Bello spoke after

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