Why food security remains intractable He got the loan, after “settling” bank officials.
Until I left Sokoto in 1990, no wheat was harvested from the farms.
In fact, the farmer, after collecting the funds, relocated to Kaduna The post Why food security remains intractable appeared first on Vanguard News .
By DELE SOBOWALE Vanguard’s cartoonist, Oladejo Akande, on the Editorial page of the paper published a brilliant and comical piece about the high food import bill.
A driver with a truck fully loaded with imported food chasing a Nigerian farmer out of the way, mockingly saying: “Stop wasting your time and energy!” It was comical and tragic at the same time. On October 3, 2026, another report appeared; titled “Import waivers, insecurity end two-year agric trade surplus.” The two reports point to an existential Nigerian problem regarding sustainable food security. Nigeria is far from being food sufficient for various reasons to be addressed shortly. We face a serious national dilemma, import or not, on food production – which is not receiving the attention it deserves.
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