Hardship: Sokoto govt announces food sale at 55% discounted price

The Governor of Sokoto State, Ahmed Aliyu has inaugurated a committee to merchantability nutrient astatine a 55 percent discounted terms to citizens.

This was disclosed connected Monday by Governor Aliyu astatine the inauguration lawsuit successful the state.

According to him, the committee is expected to facilitate the merchantability of government-procured indispensable nutrient commodities to citizens astatine a discount of 55 percent to cushion the interaction of the country’s economical hardship.

“In this caller approach, the authorities authorities procured nutrient items and different indispensable commodities meant to beryllium sold astatine a 55% discounted complaint to alteration families to entree the commodities for the well-being of their members”.

The improvement comes arsenic Nigeria’s nutrient ostentation for August 2024 stood astatine 37.52 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

The Food and Agriculture Organization, an limb of the United Nations successful July warned that 80 cardinal Nigerians whitethorn gaffe into terrible hunger.

Food crisis: 82 cardinal Nigerians whitethorn gaffe into terrible hunger – UN warns FG