Posted to the web 23 July 2008 Sufuyan Ojeifo Abuja Minister of Agriculture in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Adamu Bello, has dismissed claim that Nigeria was facing food crisis, saying the country was blessed and not among "hunger nations." Food Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) recently classified some countries as 'hunger nations'. Bello, who said he took responsibility for all the actions and inactions of the Ministry of Agriculture under the Obasanjo government, added that Nigeria was not faced with food crisis. According to him, the performance of Nigerian agriculture is relative to the West African sub-region and globally in terms of what you have just said - hunger in the land -Nigeria happens not to be among countries that have recorded hunger in the way you...
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