{"id":6021,"date":"2024-03-01T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=6021"},"modified":"2024-03-01T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:45:15","slug":"fg-applaud-measures-by-lagos-towards-stemming-rising-cost-of-foods-says-it-is-tackling-high-cost-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/fg-applaud-measures-by-lagos-towards-stemming-rising-cost-of-foods-says-it-is-tackling-high-cost-of-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"FG applaud measures by Lagos towards stemming rising cost of foods, says it is tackling high cost of drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Government has applauded measures put in place by the Lagos State Government towards stemming the rising cost of food items in the state.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris gave this commendation in Lagos during a session with the Media Executives.<\/p>\n

He said that the Lagos Market Food Fair where residents purchase food stuffs at a subsidised prices and the planned arrangements of Sunday markets was commendable.<\/p>\n

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The Minister however said that it was sad to see a viral video where the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya was kicking against those buying food items more than expected to resell.<\/p>\n

He said other states should emulates sub nationals who are striving hard to bring down the cost of food itmes for the overall good of the citizens.<\/p>\n

The Minister also attributed the escalating prices of food itmes to those creating artificial scarcity in order to attract higher fees.<\/p>\n

He said the President is also worried over the high cost of drugs adding a recent investment in the Pharmaceutical sector will soon bring down the cost in the country.<\/p>\n

According to him, deliberate effrots are geared towards addressing about 2bn dollars spent on Medical Tourism which is part of the reasons for capital flight in the country.<\/p>\n

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The Minister said the Media should not focus more on negativity but report the good side of government as part of the responsibility they owe the country.<\/p>\n

He insists that some of the negative reports could drive away foreign investment.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the five pillars under his watch in the Ministry, Mohammed Idris promised to restore the peoples trust and confidence in public communication.<\/p>\n

He explained that another task before the Ministry is the reorientation of national values he said was vital to socio-economic development of the country.<\/p>\n

The Minister told the Media Executives that there exists a Social contract between them in ensuring that government policies and programmmes are well represented and reported.<\/p>\n

He reassured them that President Bola Tinubu will gurantee press freedom that he said comes with enormous responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federal Government has applauded measures put in place by the Lagos State Government towards stemming the rising cost of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6025,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions\/6025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}