Story, you flooted the naira taking dollar to almost 2k, now you remove import duties on food related items, Shey na same same dollar that is 1,500 them go buy to pay for those imports?

Tinubu and APC just dey use Nigerian lives dey do ping-pong.
Nonsense.

Kizyte:
Government of TRIAL and ERROR. I just hope they get it right this time.

Amen óòoo

Tunjikam:
This is really commendable, let's wait for Mr Obi to educate us about the economic impact of this ideology

OBIDIENTS let's hear from your President in showing emotional reaction to matters of the country.

Instead of disturbing yourself about obi can you pls tell me how much tomatoes, pepper, yam, beans, garri and fuel you can presently afford.

Is it obi that is managing the economy? How are you faring under the present economic dispensation under d administration of Tinubu?

skultrick:
Will the so called sellers reduce price? That's the BIG QUESTION?

Nothing stops you from becoming a seller and making the price affordable to Nigerians

Good but it will only have real effect after old stock is replaced with new stock and it will only be a slight drop cos it wasn't duty/VAT that made food prices go up.

This is the very first action I am seeing being taken to suggest that the government has any intention of addressing the hardship in the country. Let's see how it goes. Many more steps are needed, yes, including the partial return of subsidy and the "unfloating" of the naira.

2. The import duty and other tariffs on the following items are hereby suspended for a period of six months:

Let's see how it goes. Planting window is still open.

RepoMan007:
local goods cannot compete as it is, so lowering the entry barrier for alternatives will kill local production faster.

But for over 2 decades of promotion, the local production have not been able to meet even 20% of our demands. For now a bold decision is required to address food crisis and this is laudable till we are able to re-strategize.

erosimo:
The document is yet to be signed by Mr. President

And people are commenting without even bothering to check!!

What a disgrace!!

Let's hope it works. Nigerians are really suffering.

Why can’t all state gov invest in massive agricultural production

DeepSight:

This is the very first action I am seeing being taken to suggest that the government has any intention of addressing the hardship in the country. Let's see how it goes. Many more steps are needed, yes, including the partial return of subsidy and the "unfloating" of the naira.

we are suppose to avoid subsidy and floating of naira but in the face of wastage being perpetrated by the govt, that's hard thing to not do.

There Is A Lot Of Hunger In South-East - Cubana Chief Priest

RepoMan007:
we are suppose to avoid subsidy and floating of naira but in the face of wastage being perpetrated by the govt, that's hard thing to not do.

Let's even leave those who argue about the subsidy for now. What was the urgency with floating the naira?

Yeye government.... Pay the citizens higher pay like the ones ure collecting monthly.... animals in human form...

trial and error government!

Open borders for foods to come in; local farmers are too greedy and selfish!

Rice, maize, beans, guinea corn, and, even, cassava should be imported now since our useless farmers don't want to have sense.

Menclothing1:
Why can’t all state gov invest in massive agricultural production

that doesnt present them a healthy stealing window. Flyover and overhead bridges are better for that purpose.

And my comment exposing the thread as fake news just got removed!!

Well played

I see the topic has changed with "To". Fair play

Meti99:

Nothing stops you from becoming a seller and making the price affordable to Nigerians

I am already a seller and not a greedy one. I don't know about you

Menclothing1:
Why can’t all state gov invest in massive agricultural production

so dat higher terrorist will slaughter them ? 🙄

RepoMan007 are you into organ harvesting.

Kukutente23:
And my comment exposing the thread as fake news just got removed!!

Well played

I see the topic has changed with "To". Fair play

It's also possible it's a yet to be signed leaked document. Let's wait and see.

Better late than never.
Although, they should have done this 10 months ago.

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DeepSight:


Let's even leave those who argue about the subsidy for now. What was the urgency with floating the naira?

Govt lacked the forex supply or inflow to match demand for forex and when forex is artificially cheaper than it should be, demand is bound to be higher. It had to go. Another effect was a falls sense of economic growth and size it created. Dividing by N800 to a dollar made us the largest in africa but in reality we should be dividing by around N1500 to a dollar which has pushed us to 4th largest. It also pushed out rich men off the rich list to their actual positions.

This is a good move but will not solve the problem of food scarcity.
If this emilokan government can tackle the problem of national insecurities, especially against farmers across the nation, food scarcity will be a thing of the past, because Nigerians had always been taken care of their food needs, before all these useless bandits and heartless Fulani -herdsmen terrorists started killing innocent Nigerians especially farmers in their various farmlands across the nation, thereby drastically reducing the food production capacity of Nigerian farmers.
Those bandits and Fulani -herdsmen terrorists, that has been terrorising and killing Nigerians especially farmers must be treated as enemies of the state, that they are indeed.

Government MUST keep a dash board of all the imports bright in this period and set the mechanism for tracking to last mile distribution point.

Share this info with consumers so we will know the saboteurs in this country hiking the cost of food stuff.

I hope custom and other govt agencies will not frustrate this move, corruption in Govt agencies destroys Govt good intention

DeepSight:
RepoMan007 are you into organ harvesting.

No stop watching too many movies. I have seen the movie too.

I want to read that the president has resigned.

This is a good initiative. Waivers of import duty and vat on staple food, agricultural raw materials and pharmaceutical products. This is a great......must have taken advise from people. This is great decision and should be quickly implemented

adioolayi:
This is a brilliant move..

But then, exchange rate wahala on imported products..

Atall atall na im bad..

Hopefully, food inflation will come down...

Ti ebi ba kuro n'inu ise, ise bu se (If hunger is taken care of in poverty, it will be a huge relief) ...pardon my interpretation..that's the best I can go. Na the Yoruba own sweet pass.

Another key part of this order is the suspension of import duty on pharmaceutical products and suspension of VAT on pharmaceutical products...great relief for patients.... especially those on essential medicines!

Very impressive especially on the poultry feeds