{"id":68037,"date":"2025-06-14T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68037"},"modified":"2025-06-14T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:12:37","slug":"nigerias-ministry-of-agriculture-declares-three-day-fasting-prayer-for-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/14\/nigerias-ministry-of-agriculture-declares-three-day-fasting-prayer-for-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Ministry of Agriculture Declares Three-Day Fasting, Prayer for Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has announced a three-day fasting and prayer programme to seek divine intervention in addressing challenges in Nigeria&#8217;s agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the initiative aims to invoke God\u2019s guidance in achieving food security and supporting national development.<\/p>\n<p>All staff members are expected to participate in the fasting and attend scheduled prayer sessions during the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The spiritual exercise is intended to unite ministry personnel in collective supplication, with the belief that divine guidance can help overcome the country\u2019s food production and sustainability challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, tasked with ensuring food sufficiency and promoting agricultural development, says this move underscores its commitment to empowering farmers and securing Nigeria\u2019s food future through both policy action and faith-based engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has announced a three-day fasting and prayer programme to seek divine intervention in addressing challenges in Nigeria&#8217;s agricultural sector. According to the ministry, the initiative aims to invoke God\u2019s guidance in achieving food security and supporting national development. All staff members are expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1740],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68037","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68039,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68037\/revisions\/68039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}