Nigeria not under threat of hunger, says agric minister

Akinwunmi Adesina, the minister of agriculture, said on Thursday in Abuja that the country was producing enough food and therefore not under any threat of hunger. Adesina said this on the sideline of a breakfast meeting with the central bank governor and some chief executive officers of commercial banks.

The minister made the clarification while fielding reporters’ questions over alleged reports which alluded that the country could experience a food crisis. He described such insinuations as ‘’speculative’’.

The report claimed that there were strong indications of looming food crisis in the country as fresh indices showed that more than 65 percent of 160 million Nigerian population were food insecure.