President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a meeting with members of the National Food Security Council (NFSC) in the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja. Delivering an opening remark at the Council’s meeting, Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Gambari, observed that the general concerns over rising prices of food grains had been allayed by operators of the markets, who had informed the Council that the prices are declining already.
In his statement, the Secretariat, National Food Security Council said he met with the Agricultural Commodity Association, to ascertain the root causes of the recent spike in food prices and craft mitigating strategies to what could be a potential crisis. “Although various concerns were raised of the root cause of increase in commodity cost, we have been informed that prices are actually on the decline as new grains have been introduced to the market". The meeting which is being attended by six out of the seven governor-members, also has ministers and other senior government functionaries in attendance.
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