Persons Living With Disabilities (PLWD) in Adamawa have raised an alarm that they are at risk of avoidable health crises and needless deaths as the lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic worsens the livelihoods and survival of PLWDs. The group expressed concern that many persons living with disabilities may never benefit from the free food stimulus program introduced by the state government if Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri fails to co-opt disabled person clusters and Civil Society Organizations...

Three days to the 2020 Easter celebration, the price of rice has remained stable in Enugu metropolis following the availability of the produce and high number of rice farmers in the state. A market survey by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday showed that the price remained stable in spite of the coming festivity. NAN reports that in spite of the high price of other foodstuffs following the lockdown, the price of rice had...

In response to allegations that many residents of Lagos who are under lockdown did not benefit from the welfare package the government initiated, the state government has said the food packages were never meant for everyone. In the build-up to the state and the federal government imposed lockdown, the Lagos government initiated welfare packages to ease the inevitable hardship residents would face. However, when the food packages were distributed, there were complaints by many that...

Prof. Veronica Obatolu, the Executive Director, Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, says Covid-19 remains a threat to food security due to the negative effects on production and research. Obatolu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Ibadan that the pandemic was raging at a time the country was entering the new cropping season. She said the effects on production would be immediate as manifested in a reduction in supply...

On Monday, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, announced the commencement of conditional cash transfer to poor and vulnerable households in the country. Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, an immediate cash transfer will be sent to vulnerable households in advance of two months following the lockdown order. ‘’Mr. President in his speech, directed that cash transfer will be given in advance of two months. This we have also done. We...