The president posted the report on his facebook page as a way of
reporting back to his friends on facebook based on the mandate given to him four years ago.
''I keep an eye on the annual Global Hunger Index of the International Food Policy Research Institute to know how Nigeria is faring in the struggle to end poverty. For the first times since the GHI has been published, Nigeria has been making steady progress, from a Hunger Index of 16.3 in 2005 to 15 in 2013 to 14.7 last year. As President, my goal is to work hard so that no citizen is hungry. We are making progress in eliminating hunger. The report from GHI corroborates our own records which show that our food import bill has reduced from 1.1 Trillion Naira in 2009 to 634 Billion Naira in 2014 and falling. By cutting out the middle men and empowering 14 million Nigerian farmers (of which 2 million are women) with fertilizers directly, we are not only reducing hunger in our nation, we are also reducing our dependence on foreign nations for our food security while at the same time creating wealth at the grass roots of Nigeria. This is only the beginning. I am confident that Nigeria will in the not too distant future be self-sufficient in food production and become a net exporter of food.''
GEJ
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