FG begins sale of N40000/bag rice says only Nigerians with NIN will benefit from it

The Nigeria Government has said only public servants with duly registered National Identification Numbers (NIN) will be allowed to purchase as it flags off the sale of 30,000 metric tonnes of milled rice.

The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari said this while flagging off the sale of the rice in Abuja on Thursday, September 5. According to Kyari, the move is to curb racketeering, and is part of efforts to crash the prices of food in Nigerian markets.

Represented by President Bola Tinubu, Kyari said the intervention will be sold strictly “one man to one bag or one woman to one bag”.

He said the rice which is to be sold at a flat rate of ₦40,000 naira only for 50kg is the federal government’s intervention for the sales of subsidised milled rice to ameliorate the prevailing food crises in Nigeria.