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The Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate in the last general election, Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria is currently among the top 20 most hungry countries in the world.<\/p>\n
Obi said this follows Nigeria\u2019s position as 109 out of 125 countries in the global hunger index.<\/p>\n
He made this known in Kebbi State while on private Ramadan visit, where he was received at the Government House by Secretary to the State Government, Yakubu Bala Tafida.<\/p>\n
The former Anambra State Governor insisted that Nigeria is poor and hungry because the Federal Government refused to holistically invest in agriculture.<\/p>\n
According to him, such investments should be directed to the North that possesses vast arable land for peasant and mechanised farming.<\/p>\n
Obi further lamented that the nation has the highest number of uncultivated land in the world accompanied by a large population of able bodied unemployed youth that could have been used to drive the mass agricultural investment to produce millions of direct and indirect jobs in the country.<\/p>\n
He also announced direct Ramadan feeding of 100 indigent persons as well as the commissioning of a borehole at Kahuta village behind Dukku Army Barracks in Benin Kebbi.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are here to support with water and some little Financial Assistance because this is a private visit not political,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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