{"id":20229,"date":"2024-02-20T08:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=20229"},"modified":"2024-02-20T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T08:26:32","slug":"50-niger-republic-bound-food-trucks-intercepted-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/20\/50-niger-republic-bound-food-trucks-intercepted-in-zamfara\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Niger Republic-Bound Food Trucks Intercepted In Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zamfara State Transport Agency halted fifty trucks carrying food items destined for the Niger Republic on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This action was taken in response to a directive from President Bola Tinubu to prevent food hoarding and address food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>The trucks, filled with various grains, were intercepted near the Nigerian border with Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Sale Shinkafi, the spokesperson for ZARTO, confirmed the interception and stated that the trucks were instructed to return and sell the commodities to Nigerians at appropriate prices, emphasizing the agency&#8217;s focus on preventing smuggling of food items out of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zamfara State Transport Agency halted fifty trucks carrying food items destined for the Niger Republic on Monday. This action was taken in response to a directive from President Bola Tinubu to prevent food hoarding and address food shortages. The trucks, filled with various grains, were intercepted near the Nigerian border with Niger Republic. Sale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":20230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20231,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229\/revisions\/20231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}