{"id":57125,"date":"2024-11-27T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57125"},"modified":"2024-11-27T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:36:31","slug":"reps-praise-gov-bago-for-agricultural-milestones-in-niger-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/27\/reps-praise-gov-bago-for-agricultural-milestones-in-niger-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Praise Gov Bago for Agricultural Milestones in Niger State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives on Tuesday lauded Governor Umar Bago of Niger State for his significant contributions to the state\u2019s agricultural development.<\/p>\n<p>The recognition came during a personal explanation session led by Hon. Babajimi Benson, the Member representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency, who commended the Governor\u2019s transformative impact on food security, both locally and nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Benson praised Governor Bago for his commitment to agricultural growth, infrastructure development, and fostering religious harmony within the state.<\/p>\n<p>He shared a noteworthy story of a military general from Cameroon, a Harvard graduate, who expressed admiration for Bago\u2019s leadership despite no direct connection with him.<\/p>\n<p>Adding his voice, Saidu Abdullahi, a lawmaker from Niger State, emphasized the importance of Bago\u2019s agricultural initiatives, particularly his allocation of 250,000 hectares of land for sugarcane farming.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi highlighted the potential of Niger State to become a key agricultural hub capable of meeting the nation\u2019s food needs.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi also commended Governor Bago for his inclusive governance approach, noting that the governor had provided cars to lawmakers regardless of their political party affiliations, reinforcing a spirit of unity and cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu The House of Representatives on Tuesday lauded Governor Umar Bago of Niger State for his significant contributions to the state\u2019s agricultural development. The recognition came during a personal explanation session led by Hon. Babajimi Benson, the Member representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency, who commended the Governor\u2019s transformative impact on food security, both locally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57125","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\/57125","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57127,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions\/57127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}