President Muhammadu Buhari says he is disappointed in the Nigerian media for failing to highlight the progress of his administration in the agricultural sector.
Buhari said this at a dinner he hosted for young political appointees at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Wednesday.
The president said under him, agriculture had become so attractive that those who cannot get white-collar job have taken up farming and are reaping the reward.
He added that his government had reduced importation of rice by 90 percent.
“I’m very disappointed with the Nigerian press. They didn’t give this government the credit of the `go back to land programme’,” he said.
“We have cut down the importation of rice by at least 90 percent… I foresaw our problem in agriculture and did the right thing and today, people are much better. In terms of unemployment, our able-bodied persons that do not have…
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