{"id":58930,"date":"2025-01-04T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58930"},"modified":"2025-01-04T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:55:56","slug":"borno-to-provide-petrol-at-n600-litre-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/04\/borno-to-provide-petrol-at-n600-litre-for-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Borno to Provide Petrol at N600\/Litre for Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has announced a petrol subsidy for farmers in Boko Haram-affected communities, reducing the price to N600 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was unveiled during the launch of farm input distribution for over 5,000 displaced farmers in Bama town on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to Abdulrahman Bundi, the governor\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on New Media, petrol, which sells for N1,000\u2013N1,200 per litre in Maiduguri, will be supplied at a subsidized rate to irrigation farmers to ease financial burdens.<\/p>\n<p>Zulum emphasized that high fuel costs have hindered irrigation farming in the state.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure smooth distribution, the Commissioner for Agriculture and the Brigade Commander will oversee the supply process in Bama.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also distributed: 2,000 bags of NPK fertilizer, 1,000 water pumps, 620 gasoline pumps, 380 solar water pumps, 1,000 sprayers, 800 rolls of flexible hoses and 1,000 litres of pesticides and seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Zulum expressed gratitude to the federal government for its continued support in rebuilding and resettling communities affected by insurgency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has announced a petrol subsidy for farmers in Boko Haram-affected communities, reducing the price to N600 per litre. The initiative was unveiled during the launch of farm input distribution for over 5,000 displaced farmers in Bama town on Friday evening. According to Abdulrahman Bundi, the governor\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58930","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\/58930","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58932,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930\/revisions\/58932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}