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Requirements To Purchase FG N40,000 per 50kg rice

October 11, 2024

 

As the cost of living continue to soar, it’s going to be the tale of the head of a camel passing through the eye of a needle for Nigerians to access the Federal Government N40,000 per 50kg bag of rice.

The federal government on Friday, announced the necessary documents needed to access the subsidized 50kg bag of milled rice.

Accordingly, a citizens must present several documents, including their National Identification Number, NIN, an Identification card and an ATM card for registration and payment.

After completing these steps, beneficiaries will need to clear a separate verification process by government officials before receiving their rice.

Those in Abuja, should go to the Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Corporation, NAIC, with the required documents.

Once documentation and payment are complete, they will proceed to the Central Business Area beside the First Bank Branch by NNPC Towers to collect their 50kg bag of milled rice.

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Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, white explaining the potential challenges in distributing such a critical staple during this difficult period, said, “The Federal Government is aware of the potential challenges associated with the sales of an important staple such as rice, and has deployed a multi-disciplinary machinery of government to ensure the transparency, wider reach, and success of this exercise.”

Kyari enumerated measures to prevent fraud, including limiting distribution to one bag of rice per person and verifying beneficiaries through identification methods like the NIN and phone numbers.

The minister noted with optimism how the injection of 30,000 metric tons 1,000 trucks of 30 metric tons each of rice into Nigeria’s food supply will significantly reduce rice prices and benefit other closely related food items.

Beneficiaries must have the required documents to ensure equal access before making a purchase of the rice which will be distributed to all states in the country.
Court bars PDP leadership from removing Damagum.

October 11, 2024

 

An Abuja Federal High Court, on Friday, restrained the Peoples Democratic Party PDP’s national leadership from removing it acting national chairman, Mr Umar Damagum.

In a virtual proceeding monitored in Abuja, Justice Peter Lifu, ordered the PDP National Executive Committee, NEC and Board of Trustees BoT not to recognised any other person as the party’s national chairman until the national convention of the party scheduled for December 2025.

The judge held that in line with Articles 42, 47, and 67 of PDP, national officers can only be elected only at the party’s national convention.

Lifu, said that PDP members are bound by the constitution of the party and as such must always act in line with the provisions and obedience to the party’s law.

Recall that the suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/579/2024, was instituted by Joshua Musa, SAN, on Sen. Umar Maina’s behalf.

The plaintiff, who claimed to be chairman of the PDP in Yobe, sued the PDP and eight others.

He alleged that some stakeholders of the party had been holding clandestine meetings to forcefully remove Damagum from office in gross violation of the party’s constitution.

He said that a former Deputy Governor of Kogi, Dr Phillip Salawu, was being pushed forward as a replacement for Damagun by the stakeholders.

Maina claimed that upon becoming aware of the plan he wrote, two separate letters complaining against the clandestine meetings that were delivered to the national secretary of the party, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu.

However despite the acknowledgment of the two letters, the national secretary and BoT members never deemed it fit to act on the letters and their claims.

He, therefore, prayed the court to invoke Articles 45, 47, and 67 of the PDP Constitution to stop the move to replace Damagum as the acting national chairman.

The plaintiff specifically asked the court to declare that the national chairmanship of PDP is rotated between the north and south regions and not through any other procedure not enshrined in its constitution.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Lifu agreed with the plaintiff that Damagum could only be replaced at the national convention of PDP or through an order of a court.

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