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Showing posts with label Subsidy. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 16 August 2023

SUBSIDY: ORILE AGEGE LCDA CHAIRMAN, CHARGES AGCMAP TO MONITOR SALE OF SUBSIDIZED FOOD ITEMS

 AgegePulse Magazine

Agege Community Media Practitioners



The Executive Chairman of Orile Agege Local Council Development Area, Hon. Johnson Babatunde Sunday has charged Agege Community Media Practitioners Association (AGCMAP) to monitor the proposed sale of subsidized food items to the residents.


Babatunde made the call while meeting with the Journalists at the LCDA’s Secretariat.


He noted that the idea of engaging media practitioners is for transparency and credible reportage.


The Council boss stated that the concept of subsidizing food items is aimed at bringing succour to the residents during this harsh economy after removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government.


Babatunde further stated that the beneficiaries from over 10,000 households will have the privilege to buy each food item at 50-60 percent discount rate.


The food items include Rice, Beans, Yam and Garri.


The Chairman later disclosed that over 60 locations have been mapped out for the simultaneous exercise.


Meanwhile, Hon Johnson Babatunde commended the Media Practitioners for their effective ways of disseminating information across all six wards of the local government.


While speaking, the Chairman, Agege Community Media Practitioners, Mr Oloyede Sunday Kolawole appreciated the Council boss on-behalf of his members for engaging the community Media Practitioners to serve as watchdogs during the sales of the subsidized food items to residents.


The community Media present include; Agege TV, Hotnews Naija, AgegePulse Magazine, Grassroots Times, Political Platform, Orile Agege media, Awarawa TV, Agege parrot and Agege Community Radio.

Saturday, 24 November 2018

Nigeria 'Headquarters of Poverty in the World' says Sanusi

AgegePulse Magazine



The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has lamented that the richest man in Africa is from Nigeria and ironically, the country “is also the poverty capital of the world”.

According to him, Nigeria had no basis for spending $3billion to $4billion annually on fuel subsidy.

Speaking at the launch of “From Frying Pan to Fire”, written by the Chairman of ThisDay Editorial Board, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi in Abuja on Thursday, Sanusi claimed Nigeria is now the headquarters of poverty in the world.

The monarch said: “If you come to Abuja Airport, it is filled with private jets. If you land in Abuja you will think Nigeria is a very rich country. We have beautiful roads and bridges; we have everything in Abuja.

“Go to the rural areas and see the large number of Nigerians there. It is a completely different world. It is a sad case and we need to deal with that. We must also remember that the discourse is not just a humanitarian discourse and it is not value-free.”

He also spoke of a mismanaged economy and misplaced priorities, stressing that subsidy funds should be spent on education, power and industry to create jobs.

In his view, Africans need jobs and they need a life to stop them from migrating to other continents.

Sanusi, however, said global inequality accounted for the migration crises being experienced in Europe, America and even Nigeria.

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