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President Bolla Ahmed sin who was shortly
after returning from two whigs private visits to

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France, has directed the Presidential Committee
on Emergency Food Intervention to work out mergers

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to address the current rising high cost
of living in Nigeria. Just as group

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of Nigerians in Minna, the Niger
States capital and Canu State blocked major roads

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on Monday and resisted men of the
Nigeria Police Force who tried to stop them

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from continuing the protest, the rule
in all Progressive Congress EKS accused the Major

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Opposition Party po pused Democratic Party HEDP
among other parties, of being responsible for

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the protests to discredit the government of
President Balla Ahmed Singobo. The PD he

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reacted and also accused the EPC of
politicalizing the economic hardships Nigerians are first with

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under the current administration. The protest
rock Mina, the capital city of Nijer

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States on Monday’s morning as youth and
women took to the streets over the rising

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cost of foodstoff and biting hardship in
Nigeria, with many of them seeing video

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marching through streets and blocked roads.
The protesters also blocked men and bidder road

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as the popular park and ground about
so La Men’s the hardship. Most of

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the protesters spoke in house or language
and said the economic situation in the country

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was getting worse. The protesters demanded
the reversal of the current fuel price,

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which they’re said to be responsible for
the daily rights in the prices of foodstos

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and other essential livelihood The protesters also
claimed that government’s response to the growing hardship

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was poor and may continued to be
blocking roads in protests to get the attention

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of the authorities to address the difficulties. Police operatives who were deployed to the

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scene had difficulties coming the protesting news. They were compelled to fire tigers in

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the direction of the rampaging us to
disperse them both with no avail. Hija

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Ted Police Command spokesperson who asilu Are
building said that the police had to apply

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minimum forced to disperse the protesters.
I woke up this morning with information that

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many people testing blocked Vidar Road,
obstructing motorists and causing people to be unable

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to go about their work. So
we had to deploy there this morning.

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After so much persuation, they refused
to open the road even the Deputy Governor,

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His Excellency was there to address them. We had to use minimum forced

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to disperse the protesters. The road
was opened and there is a free flow

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of traffic now. The Deputy Governor
of Nijer States, Jerkobugaba, appealed for

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cam while assuring that the government was
aware of the economic hardship fest by its

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citizens and that modalities were being put
in place to his their suffering. Nija

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States Government, as a matter of
urgency is calling on the people of Bagobo

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to remain calm as the state government
is working tireently to cushing its citizen hardships

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to its veriest minimum. We will
continue to distribute palliate it to the downtrodding,

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the deputy governor said. Sahara reporters
reported a few hours ago that President

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Bolatino, who returned from his to
weak medical trip in France on Tuesday,

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has directed the Presidential Committee on Emergency
Food Intervention to work out immediate mergers to

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check writing food prices in the country
for Hermd Indris, Minister of Information and

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National Orientation, disclosed this after a
committee meeting on Tuesday in Abuja. The

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minister said the President was concerned about
the accessibility and affordability of food items nationwide.

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The minister side, the government is
very concerned about what Nigerians are going

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through, especially what happened in Mina
yesterday. Therefore, the government is taking

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some actions to ensure that Nigerians have
some relief in terms of the availability of

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food on the table, said Idris
it Is. Said the committee meeting would

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continue until Thursday, adding that certain
significant mergers are already being considered to is

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the deplorable situation now. Some of
these will involve unlocking the foods available in

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most of the storage facilities our food
reserves around the country. The government is

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also taking two major millers and major
commodity treaders to also see what is available

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in their stores to open it up
so that Government will provide some intervention.

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Discuss with them to provide some intervention
to make this food available to Nigerians,

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the minister said. He said the
government was aware that some persons were creating

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food shortages because of its high cost
and currency depreciation. What I will tell

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Nigerians is that the President has directed
that government needs to step and to stem

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this tide. The government will not
fold its arms and see the when Nigerians

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are suffering in terms of the availability
of these food items, so I want

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to feed with you to understand the
government. By the time these meetings are

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concluded, we will be able to
issue a definite statement on the position of

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government in this regard, the Minister
said. The meeting was attended by the

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Chief of Staff to the President Femi
Badja, Yamilla Central Bank Governor Yami Kaduzu,

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Minister of Finance Paler Edion and the
National Security Advisor Buhu Ribadu. Others

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are Minister of Agriculture Abuba ka Kiri
Bdjet and Economic Planning Bagudu Arteko and Ministers

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of States for Agriculture Savi Ablahi and
the f City mariamamauth Sahara. Reporters news

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Reads in Courts. The Pont newspaper
also reported that the ruling All Progressive Congress

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on Tuesday accused the leading opposition parties
in the country of orchestraten the demonstrations that

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suppless simultaneously in Kano and Nijer States
on Monday. Both the People’s Democratic Party

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denied the allegation, saying the protests
were merely a reflection of the hardship in

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the land occasioned by the economic policies
of the ruling party. The allegation comes

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barely twenty four hours after agree youth
and women took to the streets of Minna

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and Kanu to protest diviting hardship,
infleshon and rising cost of living in the

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country. In Nijer, a group
of women reportedly lovely Ever visy Mina Bider

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Road at the popular Arcle roundabout and
called on the administration of President Bolatinouble government

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to address the problem of hunger in
the land. Attempted by security opereatives to

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quell the protests by firing tigers canisters
into the crowd and make some arrests were

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in both by the mob. In
a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary

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of a PC, Felix Maker in
Abuja on Tuesday, the ruling party finger

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the opposition parties as being the brain
behind the demonstrations, which its claims were

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not made coincidence. Marker added that
it was a desperate moved to portray the

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a PC led administration as under performing. The statement read, the protests in

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Minna and Canal on Monday were the
manifestation of these devious and unpatriotic plots.

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That the protests happened simultaneously in both
cities is not coincidental. It bears a

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bold stamp of an orchestrated and coordinated
efforts to instigate unrest and undermining the government.

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This mercenary opposition tactic is a clear
and present threat to public peace and

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national security. While we recognize the
rights of citizens to engage in peaceful protests,

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we owge our good people to be
vigilant and not lend themselves to the

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treacherous attempt by the opposition to promote
social strife by its incendiary rhetoric and manipulative

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plots. The President Ballatainable lad administration
is solidly committed to doing everything in its

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power to me to get the transient
pens of critically important reforms that are crucial

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to economic recovery and sustainable prosperity for
all Nigerians. It behooves us, as

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good citizens of our beloved country,
to stand fast with our government in this

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noble stride. In due time,
these policy reforms will yield and during beneficial

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transformation of the material conditions of life
in the country. We implore Nigerians to

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show the girl and unpatriotic attempt by
opposition elements to destabilize the country for their

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own best and paroche or political gains. Reacting Deputy National and Publicity Secretary of

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the People’s Democratic Party, he brought
him Abdulahi Maks the ruling party, stating

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that governance was the responsibility an individual. Law organization is the followers that comes

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with consequences. This was even as
Abdullahi expressed concerns that the nation was under

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a siege following the rising cost of
living, in security and freefall of the

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nearer. He said, if the
key did he were to be in power,

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there is a tendency it might likely
accuse the PC of masterminding these protests.

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It is a normal thing in democracy. But what is the crops of

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the matter here? If the issue
at hand is a true reflection of the

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situation in the land, I don’t
think it will of the PC to start

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complaining about people behind it. What
is more critical is that the country is

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under siege and facing a very terrible
situation. As we speak. You and

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I go to the same market and
we are all witnesses to the massive degeneration

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of our economy as well as the
tragedy follow our loved country from the high

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point of glory from twenty fifteen,
we could believe it for the tenure of

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Muhammad be hurried too until after our
years, just when Nigerians because they have

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seen worse, little did they know
the worst is on its way. Today

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you could see the rooftop inflesh biting
economic reality, sabotage, pricing, unemployment

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and insecurity. Nigerians are the ones
bearing all the bronze. And for anyone

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to say the people should not grown
or complain leave much should be desired for

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their PC to ask the opposition to
keep quiet at a time when there should

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be the ones putting the FG on
its tools. I don’t know if they

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expect a PDP and other political parties
to accept what is going as the first

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of life, then where is the
opposition? Insecurity has never been as worse

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as it is today. The country
is paper reports and in codes alday bring

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day, you bring need. In
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