Tinubu Approves Rollout of Household Support Programme for National Food security
President Bola Tinubu has announced his approval of immediate rollout of Household Support Programme for the improvement of national food security.
Tinubu made this confirmation in a statement in Abuja, which was released by the Personal adviser to the president on media and publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale on Thursday.
The national food security programme, according to the statement, launched by the president is geared toward “boosting agricultural productivity” to help strengthen the economy.
“President Tinubu approves rollout of household support to boost agricultural productivity, and strengthen the economy by creating opportunities in the real sectors,” the report said.
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According to the statement, there are three key sectors on which the government is focused to booster national food security: “Agriculture, manufacturing, and construction,” are the areas through which the government will “provide urgent economic relief for Nigerians.”
“The immediate rollout of the National Construction and Household Support Programme to cover all geo-political zones in the country.
The president also approved the rehabilitation of major federal roads as part of the efforts in enhancing economic activities that impact positively on Nigerians’ food security within all zones of the country
“Under the programme, the Sokoto-Badagry Highway, which will traverse Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Oyo, Ogun, and Lagos, is prioritized.
“Other road infrastructure projects, such as the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, which is underway, and the Trans-Saharan Highway, which links Enugu, Abakaliki, Ogoja, Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa, and Abuja, are also prioritized.
“The President has also approved full counterpart financing for Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Railway; to traverse Rivers, Abia, Enugu, Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau, Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe and Borno, as well as for the Ibadan-Abuja segment of the Lagos-Kano Standard-Gauge Railway; which will traverse Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Kwara, Niger, Abuja, Kaduna, and Kano.
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“The Sokoto-Badagry road project is specially prioritized for its importance as some of the states it will traverse are strategic to the agricultural sustainability of the nation.
“Within the Sokoto-Badagry Highway corridor, there are 216 agricultural communities, 58 large and medium dams spread across six states, seven Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs), 156 local government areas, 39 commercial cities and towns, and over 1 million hectares of arable land.
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“In addition, other items under the National Construction and Household Support Programme include:
“(1) One-off allocation to states and the Federal Capital Territory of N10 billion for the procurement of buses and CNG uplift programme.
“(2) Delivery of N50,000 uplift grant each to 100,000 families per state for three (3) months.
“(3) Provision for labour unions and civil society organizations.
“(4) Deployment of N155 billion for the purchase and sale of assorted foodstuff to be distributed across the nation.
