Hunger: States get 20 trucks each as FG shares 740 lorry loads of rice
THE Federal Government said yesterday it has distributed 740 trucks of rice to the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. Each state and the FCT was given 20 trucks containing 1,200 bags of 25kg of rice for each truck and the commodity is to be distributed to the most vulnerable in the society. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The minister, who was flanked by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the President directed the minister of agriculture to ensure food was made available to Nigerians. He explained that the distribution of trucks of rice was also to ensure that the hardship in the country was ameliorated, adding that it was expected that state governors would dis...