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Ogun State said it had purchased 100 trucks of rice to be sold at cheaper rates to residents of the state to cushion the effect rise in prices of goods in the country.
The state governor, Dapo Abiodun, gave the hint during a stakeholders’ meeting in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Abiodun said that the rice would be subsidised and made available at the rate it was before the recent astronomical rise in the prices of the commodities.
He said that the poor, elderly, and the vulnerable would enjoy free allocation.
The governor, who assured the people of Ogun State that President Bola Tinubu is fully in charge and knows what he is doing, said the President was on top of the situation, adding that Nigerians will soon start seeing the…
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