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 Fashola, Lai, Fayemi and others cleared

AFTER a two-day screening, the Senate yesterday confirmed 18 ministerial nominees, among them former Governors Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) and Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti).

The other ministers-designate are Senator Udoma Udo Udoma (Akwa Ibom), Chief Audu Ogbeh (Benue), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi), Dr. Osagie Ehanire (Edo), Alhaji Lai Mohammed (Kwara), Lt. Gen. Adulrahman Danbazzau (Kano), Amina Ibrahim Mohammed (Gombe), Mr. Suleiman Hussaini Adamu, Mr. Ibrahim Usman Jibrin, Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Corporation (NNPC) Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) , Senator Chris Ngige, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, Mr. Solomon Dalong, Mrs Kemi Adeosun and Senator Hadi Sirika.

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Governor want importation banned in two year

 

State governors are pressing for a ban of rice importation in the next two years during which they hope that the country would have developed sufficient capacity to produce enough to meet the nation's requirement.
Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, gave the hint while speaking with State House correspondents in Abuja after some of the governors and other stakeholders held a meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on the new policy on agriculture and food sustainability in his office.
The Federal Government had only recently removed rice from import restriction list.
Yari noted that with the population of the country, it was regrettable that it still had issues of food security.
According to him, Wednesday's meeting discussed with relevant government agencies policies to be put in place to ensure self sufficiency in rice production so as to make further importation unnecessary.
culled from TRIBUNE TODAY